Tuesday, April 24, 2012

1204.4985 (Thomas Burgener et al.)

Clustering of inelastic soft spheres in homogeneous turbulence    [PDF]

Thomas Burgener, Dirk Kadau, Hans Jürgen Herrmann
In this paper we numerically investigate the influence of dissipation during particle collisions in an homogeneous turbulent velocity field by coupling a discrete element method to a Lattice-Boltzmann simulation with spectral forcing. We show that even at moderate particle volume fractions the influence of dissipative collisions is important. We also investigate the transition from a regime where the turbulent velocity field significantly influences the spatial distribution of particles to a regime where the distribution is mainly influenced by particle collisions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4985

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