Anisotropic clustering of inertial particles in homogeneous shear flow

P Gualtieri, F Picano, CM Casciola - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009 - cambridge.org
Recently, clustering of inertial particles in turbulence has been thoroughly analysed for
statistically homogeneous isotropic flows. Phenomenologically, spatial homogeneity of …

Coherent clusters of inertial particles in homogeneous turbulence

L Baker, A Frankel, A Mani, F Coletti - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Despite the widely acknowledged significance of turbulence-driven clustering, a clear
topological definition of particle cluster in turbulent dispersed multiphase flows has been …

Clustering and turbulence modulation in particle-laden shear flows

P Gualtieri, F Picano, G Sardina… - Journal of Fluid …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Turbulent fluctuations induce the common phenomenon known as clustering in the spatial
arrangement of small inertial particles transported by the fluid. Particles spread non …

Quantifying turbulence-induced segregation of inertial particles

E Calzavarini, M Cencini, D Lohse, F Toschi… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
Particles with different density from the advecting turbulent fluids cluster due to the different
response of light and heavy particles to turbulent fluctuations. This study focuses on the …

Scale-dependent statistics of inertial particle distribution in high Reynolds number turbulence

K Matsuda, K Schneider, K Yoshimatsu - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Multiscale statistical analyses of inertial particle distributions are presented to investigate the
statistical signature of clustering and void regions in particle-laden incompressible isotropic …

Clustering and preferential concentration of finite-size particles in forced homogeneous-isotropic turbulence

M Uhlmann, A Chouippe - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
We have performed interface-resolved direct numerical simulations of forced homogeneous-
isotropic turbulence in a dilute suspension of spherical particles in the Reynolds number …

Life and death of inertial particle clusters in turbulence

Y Liu, L Shen, R Zamansky, F Coletti - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Clusters of inertial particles in turbulence are usually identified from the spatial coherence of
the particle concentration field, neglecting their temporal persistence. The latter is in fact …

Experimental and numerical investigation of inertial particle clustering in isotropic turbulence

JPLC Salazar, J De Jong, L Cao… - Journal of Fluid …, 2008 - cambridge.org
This paper presents the first detailed comparisons between experiments and direct
numerical simulations (DNS) of inertial particle clustering in nearly isotropic 'box turbulence' …

On the relationship between the non-local clustering mechanism and preferential concentration

AD Bragg, PJ Ireland, LR Collins - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
'Preferential concentration'(Squires & Eaton, Phys. Fluids, vol. A3, 1991, pp. 1169–1178)
refers to the clustering of inertial particles in the high strain, low-rotation regions of …

Analysis of the clustering of inertial particles in turbulent flows

M Esmaily-Moghadam, A Mani - Physical Review Fluids, 2016 - APS
An asymptotic solution is derived for the motion of inertial particles exposed to Stokes drag
in an unsteady random flow. This solution provides an estimate for the sum of Lyapunov …