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Effect of the Stokes boundary layer on the dynamics of particle pairs in an oscillatory flow

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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 34, Issue 11, Pages -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0115487

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This paper investigates the dynamics of spherical particles in oscillating flows. It is found that the dynamics of particle pairs in oscillating channel flows are fundamentally different from those in oscillating boxes due to the presence of a Stokes boundary layer. The results show that the oscillating channel flow and the oscillating box are only equivalent in a limited region of the parameter space.
The alignment of a pair of spherical particles perpendicular to a horizontally oscillating flow is attributed to a non-zero residual flow, known as steady streaming. This phenomenon is the basis of complex patterns in denser systems, such as particle chains and the initial stages of rolling-grain ripples. Previous studies on such self-organization processes used two distinct systems: an oscillating box filled with viscous fluid and an oscillating channel flow, where the fluid oscillates relative to the bottom boundary. In this paper, we show that particle pair dynamics in these two systems are fundamentally different, due to the presence of a Stokes boundary layer above the bottom in the oscillating channel flow. The results are obtained from direct numerical simulations in which the dynamics of a pair of particles are simulated using an immersed boundary method. The oscillating box and the oscillating channel flow are only equivalent in a limited region of the parameter space, where both the normalized Stokes boundary layer thickness and the normalized relative particle excursion length are small. Overall, the particle dynamics in the oscillating channel flow, compared to the oscillating box, are governed by an additional dimensionless parameter, that is, the particle-fluid density ratio. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.

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