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COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 65, Issue 2, Pages 194-210Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2011.06.028
Keywords
Particle-laden flow; Turbulence; Lattice Boltzmann equation; Finite-size effect; Particle-particle interactions; Particle-resolved simulation
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- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) [0904534] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [0730766] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The paper describes a particle-resolved simulation method for turbulent flow laden with finite size particles. The method is based on the multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann equation. The no-slip boundary condition on the moving particle boundaries is handled by a second-order interpolated bounce-back scheme. The populations at a newly converted fluid lattice node are constructed by the equilibrium distribution with non-equilibrium corrections. MPI implementation details are described and the resulting code is found to be computationally efficient with a good scalability. The method is first validated using unsteady sedimentation of a single particle and sedimentation of a random suspension. It is then applied to a decaying isotropic turbulence laden with particles of Kolmogorov to Taylor microscale sizes. At a given particle volume fraction, the dynamics of the particle-laden flow is found to depend mainly on the effective particle surface area and particle Stokes number. The presence of finite-size inertial particles enhances dissipation at small scales while reducing kinetic energy at large scales. This is in accordance with related studies. The normalized pivot wavenumber is found to not only depend on the particle size, but also on the ratio of particle size to flow scales and particle-to-fluid density ratio. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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