[HTML][HTML] Impact of coagulation characteristics on the aggregation of microplastics in upper-ocean turbulence

F Pizzi, M Rahmani, C Romera-Castillo, F Peters… - Advances in Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamics and aggregation of microplastics in marine environments are investigated
through high-fidelity direct numerical simulations with Lagrangian point-particle tracking …

Clustering, rotation, and swirl of inertial particles in turbulent channel flow

JR West, T Maurel–Oujia, K Matsuda… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Clustering dynamics of inertial particles in turbulent channel flow are studied via tessellation-
based analysis of high-fidelity simulation data at R e τ≈ 230 with various values of mass …

Aggregation of microplastic and biogenic particles in upper-ocean turbulence

M Rahmani, A Gupta, L Jofre - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2022 - Elsevier
The aggregation of microplastic and biogenic particles in upper-ocean turbulence is studied
by means of direct numerical simulations and Lagrangian tracking of point particles. The …

Settling strongly modifies particle concentrations in wall-bounded turbulent flows even when the settling parameter is asymptotically small

AD Bragg, DH Richter, G Wang - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
We explore the role of gravitational settling on inertial particle concentrations in a wall-
bounded turbulent flow. While it may be thought that settling can be ignored when the …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of multiphase flow in pipes with simplified models of deposited beds

M Liu, LF Mortimer, B Wolde, M Fairweather… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Turbulent particle-laden flows in pipes can result in particle deposition leading to the
formation of solid beds. The presence of such beds modifies the flow field, resulting in …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient model for the breakage of agglomerates by wall impact applied to Euler-Lagrange LES predictions

A Khalifa, M Breuer - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study completes the development of a model for predicting the effect of wall
impacts on agglomerates in turbulent flows. Relying on an Euler-Lagrange hard-sphere …

Droplet dynamics in Burgers vortices. I. Mass transport

O Avni, Y Dagan - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
The present series of papers studies the coupling between transport phenomena and the
dynamic response of droplets in vortical flows. We derive the nonlinear relations between …

The discrete Green's function paradigm for two-way coupled Euler–Lagrange simulation

JAK Horwitz, G Iaccarino, JK Eaton… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We outline a methodology for the simulation of two-way coupled particle-laden flows. The
drag force that couples fluid and particle momentum depends on the undisturbed fluid …

Investigating the effect of turbulence on hemolysis through cell-resolved fluid-structure interaction simulations of individual red blood cells

G Rydquist, M Esmaily - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Existing hemolysis algorithms are often constructed for laminar flows that expose red blood
cells (RBCs) to a constant rate of shear. It remains an open question whether such models …

Simulation of a vacuum helmet to contain pathogen-bearing droplets in dental and otolaryngologic outpatient interventions

D Jia, J Lee Baker, A Rameau, M Esmaily - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Clinic encounters of dentists and otolaryngologists inherently expose these specialists to an
enhanced risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection, thus …