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Particle capture by drops in turbulent flow

Arash Hajisharifi

Cristian Marchioli*,†

Alfredo Soldati‡

  • Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy

  • Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy

  • Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, TU Wien, 1040 Wien, Austria

  • *Corresponding author: marchioli@uniud.it
  • †Also at Department of Fluid Mechanics, CSIM, 33100 Udine, Italy
  • ‡Also at Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 024303 – Published 5 February, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.024303

Abstract

We examine the process of particle capture by large deformable drops in turbulent channel flow. We simulate the solid-liquid-liquid three-phase flow with an Eulerian-Lagrangian method based on direct numerical simulation of turbulence coupled with a phase-field model, to capture the interface dynamics, and Lagrangian tracking of small (sub-Kolmogorov) particles. Drops have the same density and viscosity of the carrier liquid, and neutrally buoyant, quasi-inertialess, solid particles are one-way coupled with the other phases. Our results show that particles are transported towards the interface by jetlike turbulent motions and, once close enough, are captured by interfacial forces in regions of positive surface velocity divergence. These regions appear to be well correlated with high-enstrophy flow topologies that contribute to enstrophy production via vortex compression or stretching. Examining the turbulent mechanisms that bring particles to the interface, we have been able to derive a simple transport model for particle capture. The model is based on a single turbulent transport equation in which the only parameter scales with the turbulent kinetic energy of the fluid measured in the vicinity of the drop interface, and its predictions of the overall capture efficiency agree remarkably well with numerical results.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 024303– Published 5 February, 2021
  • Received 9 October 2020
  • Accepted 21 January 2021
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