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Multiscale fluid–particle thermal interaction in isotropic turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2019

M. Carbone Open the ORCID record for M. Carbone [Opens in a new window] ,
A. D. Bragg Open the ORCID record for A. D. Bragg [Opens in a new window]  and
M. Iovieno Open the ORCID record for M. Iovieno [Opens in a new window]
M. Carbone
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
A. D. Bragg*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
M. Iovieno
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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†Email address for correspondence: andrew.bragg@duke.edu
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Abstract

We use direct numerical simulations to investigate the interaction between the temperature field of a fluid and the temperature of small particles suspended in the flow, employing both one- and two-way thermal coupling, in a statistically stationary, isotropic turbulent flow. Using statistical analysis, we investigate this variegated interaction at the different scales of the flow. We find that the variance of the carrier flow temperature gradients decreases as the thermal response time of the suspended particles is increased. The probability density function (PDF) of the carrier flow temperature gradients scales with its variance, while the PDF of the rate of change of the particle temperature, whose variance is associated with the thermal dissipation due to the particles, does not scale in such a self-similar way. The modification of the fluid temperature field due to the particles is examined by computing the particle concentration and particle heat fluxes conditioned on the magnitude of the local fluid temperature gradient. These statistics highlight that the particles cluster on the fluid temperature fronts, and the important role played by the alignments of the particle velocity and the local fluid temperature gradient. The temperature structure functions, which characterize the temperature fluctuations across the scales of the flow, clearly show that the fluctuations of the carrier flow temperature increments are monotonically suppressed in the two-way coupled regime as the particle thermal response time is increased. Thermal caustics dominate the particle temperature increments at small scales, that is, particles that come into contact are likely to have very large differences in their temperatures. This is caused by the non-local thermal dynamics of the particles: the scaling exponents of the inertial particle temperature structure functions in the dissipation range reveal very strong multifractal behaviour. Further insight is provided by the flux of temperature increments across the scales. Altogether, these results reveal a number of non-trivial effects, with a number of important practical consequences.

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Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 881 , 25 December 2019 , pp. 679 - 721
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