Particle-laden turbulence: progress and perspectives

L Brandt, F Coletti - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review is motivated by the fast progress in our understanding of the physics of particle-
laden turbulence in the last decade, partly due to the tremendous advances of measurement …

Turbulent channel flow of dense suspensions of neutrally buoyant spheres

F Picano, WP Breugem, L Brandt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Dense particle suspensions are widely encountered in many applications and in
environmental flows. While many previous studies investigate their rheological properties in …

Immersed boundary method for multiphase transport phenomena

W Xiao, H Zhang, K Luo, C Mao, J Fan - Reviews in Chemical …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Multiphase flows with momentum, heat, and mass transfer exist widely in a variety of
industrial applications. With the rapid development of numerical algorithms and computer …

Numerical study of the sedimentation of spheroidal particles

MN Ardekani, P Costa, WP Breugem… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The gravity-driven motion of rigid particles in a viscous fluid is relevant in many natural and
industrial processes, yet this has mainly been investigated for spherical particles. We …

Sedimentation of finite-size spheres in quiescent and turbulent environments

W Fornari, F Picano, L Brandt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Sedimentation of a dispersed solid phase is widely encountered in applications and
environmental flows, yet little is known about the behaviour of finite-size particles in …

Inertial migration of spherical and oblate particles in straight ducts

I Lashgari, MN Ardekani, I Banerjee… - Journal of fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We study numerically the inertial migration of a single rigid sphere and an oblate spheroid in
straight square and rectangular ducts. A highly accurate interface-resolved numerical …

The effect of particle density in turbulent channel flow laden with finite size particles in semi-dilute conditions

W Fornari, A Formenti, F Picano, L Brandt - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We study the effect of varying the mass and volume fraction of a suspension of rigid spheres
dispersed in a turbulent channel flow. We performed several direct numerical simulations …

From nearly homogeneous to core-peaking suspensions: Insight in suspension pipe flows using MRI and DNS

W Hogendoorn, WP Breugem, D Frank… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experiments have been performed in conjunction with
direct numerical simulations (DNS) to study neutrally buoyant particle-laden pipe flows. The …

Universal scaling laws for dense particle suspensions in turbulent wall-bounded flows

P Costa, F Picano, L Brandt, WP Breugem - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
The macroscopic behavior of dense suspensions of neutrally buoyant spheres in turbulent
plane channel flow is examined. We show that particles larger than the smallest turbulence …

Drag reduction in turbulent channel flow laden with finite-size oblate spheroids

MN Ardekani, P Costa, WP Breugem… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We study suspensions of oblate rigid particles in a viscous fluid for different values of the
particle volume fractions. Direct numerical simulations have been performed using a direct …