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F C G A Nicolleau1, M Farhan2, A F Nowakowski3
1Sheffield Fluid Mechanics Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom and Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 and Institut Jean le Rond dAlembert, CNRS UMR 7190, Paris, France.
Abstract:
We study the clustering of inertial particles using a periodic kinematic simulation. Particle clustering is observed for different pairs of Stokes number and Froude number and different spectral power laws (1.4≤p≤2.1). The main focus is to identify and then quantify the effect of p on the clustering attractor-by attractor we mean the set of points in the physical space where the particles settle when time tends to infinity. It is observed that spectral power laws can have a dramatic effect on the attractor shape. In particular, we observed an attractor type which was not present in previous studies for Kolmogorov spectra (p=5/3).
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