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Simulation study of particle clouds in oscillating shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Amanda A. Howard Open the ORCID record for Amanda A. Howard [Opens in a new window]  and
Martin R. Maxey Open the ORCID record for Martin R. Maxey [Opens in a new window]
Amanda A. Howard
Affiliation:
Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Martin R. Maxey*
Affiliation:
Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: Martin_Maxey@Brown.edu
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Abstract

Simulations of cylindrical clouds of concentrated, neutrally buoyant, suspended particles are used to investigate the dispersion of the particles in an oscillating Couette flow. In experiments by Metzger & Butler (Phys. Fluids, vol. 24 (2), 2012, 021703) with spherical clouds of non-Brownian particles, the clouds are shown to elongate at volume fraction $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}=0.4$ but form ‘galaxies’ where the cloud rotates as a single body with extended arms when $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}>0.4$ and the ratio of the cloud radius to particle radius, $R/a$, is sufficiently large. The simulations, which use the force coupling method, are completed for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}=0.4$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}=0.55$, with $R/a$ between $5$ and $20$. The cloud shape for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}=0.4$ is shown to be reversible at low strain amplitude, and extend in the streamwise direction along the centre of the cloud at moderate strain amplitude. For higher strain amplitude the clouds extend near the channel walls to form a parallelogram. The results demonstrate that the particle contact force determines the transition between these states and plays a large role in the irreversibility of the parallelograms. Rotating galaxies form at $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}=0.55$ with $R/a\geqslant 15$, and are characterized by a particle-induced flow in the wall-normal direction.

JFM classification

Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Particle/fluid flow Non-Newtonian Flows: Rheology Complex Fluids: Suspensions
Type
JFM Papers
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 852 , 10 October 2018 , pp. 484 - 506
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© 2018 Cambridge University Press 

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Howard et. al. supplementary movie

Particle locations over two periods plotted with the averaged wall-normal velocity 〈v〉 for R/a = 20 and H/a = 80.

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