Relevance of the Basset history term for Lagrangian particle dynamics

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Main Authors: Urizarna-Carasa, Julio, Ruprecht, Daniel, von Kameke, Alexandra, Padberg-Gehle, Kathrin
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author Urizarna-Carasa, Julio
Ruprecht, Daniel
von Kameke, Alexandra
Padberg-Gehle, Kathrin
author_facet Urizarna-Carasa, Julio
Ruprecht, Daniel
von Kameke, Alexandra
Padberg-Gehle, Kathrin
contents The movement of small but finite spherical particles in a fluid can be described by the Maxey-Riley equation (MRE) if they are too large to be considered passive tracers. The MRE contains an integral "history term" modeling wake effects, which causes the force acting on a particle at some given time to depend on its full past trajectory. The history term causes complications in the numerical solution of the MRE and is therefore often neglected, despite both numerical and experimental evidence that its effects are generally not negligible. By numerically computing trajectories with and without the history term of a large number of particles in different flow fields, we investigate its impact on the large-scale Lagrangian dynamics of simulated particles. We show that for moderate to large Stokes numbers, ignoring the history term leads to significant differences in clustering patterns. Furthermore, we compute finite-time Lyapunov exponents and show that, even for small particles, the differences in the resulting scalar field from ignoring the BHT can be significant, in particular if the underlying flow is turbulent.
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spellingShingle Relevance of the Basset history term for Lagrangian particle dynamics
Urizarna-Carasa, Julio
Ruprecht, Daniel
von Kameke, Alexandra
Padberg-Gehle, Kathrin
Fluid Dynamics
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Numerical Analysis
Dynamical Systems
The movement of small but finite spherical particles in a fluid can be described by the Maxey-Riley equation (MRE) if they are too large to be considered passive tracers. The MRE contains an integral "history term" modeling wake effects, which causes the force acting on a particle at some given time to depend on its full past trajectory. The history term causes complications in the numerical solution of the MRE and is therefore often neglected, despite both numerical and experimental evidence that its effects are generally not negligible. By numerically computing trajectories with and without the history term of a large number of particles in different flow fields, we investigate its impact on the large-scale Lagrangian dynamics of simulated particles. We show that for moderate to large Stokes numbers, ignoring the history term leads to significant differences in clustering patterns. Furthermore, we compute finite-time Lyapunov exponents and show that, even for small particles, the differences in the resulting scalar field from ignoring the BHT can be significant, in particular if the underlying flow is turbulent.
title Relevance of the Basset history term for Lagrangian particle dynamics
topic Fluid Dynamics
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Numerical Analysis
Dynamical Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01041