Population balance modelling of polydispersed particles in reactive flows

S Rigopoulos - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Polydispersed particles in reactive flows is a wide subject area encompassing a range of
dispersed flows with particles, droplets or bubbles that are created, transported and possibly …

Effect of preferential concentration on turbulent collision rates

WC Reade, LR Collins - Physics of Fluids, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of particle inertia on the interparticle collision rates of a turbulent aerosol was
investigated recently by Sundaram and Collins (1997) using direct numerical simulation …

Clustering of aerosol particles in isotropic turbulence

J Chun, DL Koch, SL Rani, A Ahluwalia… - Journal of Fluid …, 2005 - cambridge.org
It has been recognized that particle inertia throws dense particles out of regions of high
vorticity and leads to an accumulation of particles in the straining-flow regions of a turbulent …

The effect of Reynolds number on inertial particle dynamics in isotropic turbulence. Part 1. Simulations without gravitational effects

PJ Ireland, AD Bragg, LR Collins - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
In this study, we analyse the statistics of both individual inertial particles and inertial particle
pairs in direct numerical simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence in the absence of …

Acceleration statistics of heavy particles in turbulence

J Bec, L Biferale, G Boffetta, A Celani… - Journal of Fluid …, 2006 - cambridge.org
We present the results of direct numerical simulations of heavy particle transport in
homogeneous, isotropic, fully developed turbulence, up to resolution decrease with St. Two …

Modelling of micro-particle agglomeration in turbulent flows

CA Ho, M Sommerfeld - Chemical Engineering Science, 2002 - Elsevier
The present study introduces a stochastic Lagrangian agglomeration model to be applied
within the framework of the classical Euler/Lagrange approach. The main subject of this …

Turbulent collision of inertial particles: point-particle based, hybrid simulations and beyond

LP Wang, B Rosa, H Gao, G He, G Jin - International Journal of Multiphase …, 2009 - Elsevier
Point-particle based direct numerical simulation (PPDNS) has been a productive research
tool for studying both single-particle and particle-pair statistics of inertial particles suspended …

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' …

Turbulent clustering of protoplanetary dust and planetesimal formation

L Pan, P Padoan, J Scalo, AG Kritsuk… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the clustering of inertial particles in turbulent flows and discuss its applications to
dust particles in protoplanetary disks. Using numerical simulations, we compute the radial …

Reynolds number scaling of particle clustering in turbulent aerosols

LR Collins, A Keswani - New Journal of Physics, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Particles with finite inertia in turbulent flow cluster in low-vorticity regions of the fluid due to
the inertial imbalance between the denser particles and the lighter surrounding fluid. This …