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Rotational kinematics of large cylindrical particles in turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2017

Ankur D. Bordoloi Open the ORCID record for Ankur D. Bordoloi [Opens in a new window]  and
Evan Variano
Ankur D. Bordoloi*
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Evan Variano
Affiliation:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Abstract

The rotational kinematics of inertial cylinders in homogeneous isotropic turbulence is investigated via laboratory experiments. The effects of particle size and shape on rotation statistics are measured for near-neutrally buoyant particles whose sizes are within the inertial subrange of turbulence. To examine the effects of particle size, three right-circular cylinders (aspect ratio $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}=1$) are considered, with size $d_{eq}=16\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}$, $27\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}$ and $67\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}$. Here, $d_{eq}$ is the diameter of a sphere whose volume is equal to that of the particle and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}$ is the Kolmogorov length scale. Results show that the variance of the particle rotation rate follows a $-4/3$ power-law scaling with respect to $d_{eq}$. To examine the effect of particle shape, two cylinders with identical volumes and different aspect ratios ($\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}=1$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}=4$) are measured. Their motion also scales with $d_{eq}$ regardless of shape. Simultaneous measurements of orientation and rotation for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}=4$ particles allows a decomposition of rotation along the primary axes of each particle. This analysis shows that there is no preference for rotation about a particle’s symmetry axis, unlike the preference displayed by sub-Kolmogorov-scale particles in previous studies.

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Turbulent Flows: Homogeneous turbulence Turbulent Flows: Isotropic turbulence Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Particle/fluid flow
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 815 , 25 March 2017 , pp. 199 - 222
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