Pairwise interaction of spherical particles aligned in oscillatory flow

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Main Authors: Kleischmann, Fabian, Luzzatto-Fegiz, Paolo, Meiburg, Eckart, Vowinckel, Bernhard
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author Kleischmann, Fabian
Luzzatto-Fegiz, Paolo
Meiburg, Eckart
Vowinckel, Bernhard
author_facet Kleischmann, Fabian
Luzzatto-Fegiz, Paolo
Meiburg, Eckart
Vowinckel, Bernhard
contents We present a systematic simulation campaign to investigate the pairwise interaction of two mobile, monodisperse particles submerged in a viscous fluid and subjected to monochromatic oscillating flows. To this end, we employ the immersed boundary method to geometrically resolve the flow around the two particles in a non-inertial reference frame. We neglect gravity to focus on fluid-particle interactions associated with particle inertia and consider particles of three different density ratios aligned along the axis of oscillation. We systematically vary the initial particle distance and the frequency based on which the particles show either attractive or repulsive behavior by approaching or moving away from each other, respectively. This behavior is consistently confirmed for the three density ratios investigated, although particle inertia dictates the overall magnitude of the particle dynamics. Based on this, threshold conditions for the transition from attraction to repulsion are introduced that obey the same power law for all density ratios investigated. We furthermore analyze the flow patterns by suitable averaging and decomposition of the flow fields and find competing effects of the vorticity induced by the fluid-particle interactions. Based on these flow patterns, we derive a circulation-based criterion that provides a quantitative measure to categorize the different cases. It is shown that such a criterion provides a consistent measure to distinguish the attractive and repulsive arrangements.
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spellingShingle Pairwise interaction of spherical particles aligned in oscillatory flow
Kleischmann, Fabian
Luzzatto-Fegiz, Paolo
Meiburg, Eckart
Vowinckel, Bernhard
Fluid Dynamics
We present a systematic simulation campaign to investigate the pairwise interaction of two mobile, monodisperse particles submerged in a viscous fluid and subjected to monochromatic oscillating flows. To this end, we employ the immersed boundary method to geometrically resolve the flow around the two particles in a non-inertial reference frame. We neglect gravity to focus on fluid-particle interactions associated with particle inertia and consider particles of three different density ratios aligned along the axis of oscillation. We systematically vary the initial particle distance and the frequency based on which the particles show either attractive or repulsive behavior by approaching or moving away from each other, respectively. This behavior is consistently confirmed for the three density ratios investigated, although particle inertia dictates the overall magnitude of the particle dynamics. Based on this, threshold conditions for the transition from attraction to repulsion are introduced that obey the same power law for all density ratios investigated. We furthermore analyze the flow patterns by suitable averaging and decomposition of the flow fields and find competing effects of the vorticity induced by the fluid-particle interactions. Based on these flow patterns, we derive a circulation-based criterion that provides a quantitative measure to categorize the different cases. It is shown that such a criterion provides a consistent measure to distinguish the attractive and repulsive arrangements.
title Pairwise interaction of spherical particles aligned in oscillatory flow
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04304