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Turbulent flow of finite-size spherical particles in channels with viscous hyper-elastic walls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2019

M. N. Ardekani Open the ORCID record for M. N. Ardekani [Opens in a new window] ,
M. E. Rosti Open the ORCID record for M. E. Rosti [Opens in a new window]  and
L. Brandt Open the ORCID record for L. Brandt [Opens in a new window]
M. N. Ardekani*
Affiliation:
Linné Flow Centre and SeRC (Swedish e-Science Research Centre), KTH Mechanics, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
M. E. Rosti
Affiliation:
Linné Flow Centre and SeRC (Swedish e-Science Research Centre), KTH Mechanics, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
L. Brandt
Affiliation:
Linné Flow Centre and SeRC (Swedish e-Science Research Centre), KTH Mechanics, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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†Email address for correspondence: mehd@mech.kth.se
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Abstract

We study single-phase and particle-laden turbulent channel flows bounded by two incompressible hyper-elastic walls with different deformability at bulk Reynolds number $5600$. The solid volume fraction of finite-size neutrally buoyant rigid spherical particles considered is $10\,\%$. The elastic walls are assumed to be of a neo-Hookean material. A fully Eulerian formulation is employed to model the elastic walls together with a direct-forcing immersed boundary method for the coupling between the fluid and the particles. The data show a significant drag increase and the enhancement of the turbulence activity with growing wall elasticity for both the single-phase and particle-laden flows when compared with the single-phase flow over rigid walls. Drag reduction and turbulence attenuation is obtained, on the other hand, with highly elastic walls when comparing the particle-laden flow with the single-phase flow for the same wall properties; the opposite effect, drag increase, is observed upon adding particles to the flow over less elastic walls. This is explained by investigating the near-wall turbulence, where the strong asymmetry in the magnitude of the wall-normal velocity fluctuations (favouring positive $v^{\prime }$), is found to push the particles towards the channel centre. The particle layer close to the wall contributes to turbulence production by increasing the wall-normal velocity fluctuations, so that in the absence of this layer, smaller wall deformations and in turn turbulence attenuation is observed. For a moderate wall elasticity, we increase the particle volume fraction up to $20\,\%$ and find that particle migration away from the wall is the cause of turbulence attenuation with respect to the flow over rigid walls. However, for this higher volume fractions, the particle induced stress compensates for the decreasing Reynolds shear stress, resulting in a higher overall drag for the case with elastic walls. The effect of the wall elasticity on the overall drag reduces significantly with increasing particle volume fraction.

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Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Multiphase flow
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 873 , 25 August 2019 , pp. 410 - 440
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