Disperse Two-Phase Flows, with Applications to Geophysical Problems

作者：Berselli Luigi C^*; Cerminara Matteo; Iliescu Traian

来源：Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2015, 172(1): 181-196.

DOI：10.1007/s00024-014-0889-5

• Dilute suspensions
• Eulerian models
• direct and large eddy simulations
• slightly compressible flows
• dam-break (lock-exchange) problem

In this paper, we study the motion of a fluid with several dispersed particles whose concentration is very small (smaller than ), with possible applications to problems coming from geophysics, meteorology, and oceanography. We consider a very dilute suspension of heavy particles in a quasi-incompressible fluid (low Mach number). In our case, the Stokes number is small and-as pointed out in the theory of multiphase turbulence-we can use an Eulerian model instead of a Lagrangian one. The assumption of low concentration allows us to disregard particle-particle interactions, but we take into account the effect of particles on the fluid (two-way coupling). In this way, we can study the physical effect of particles' inertia (and not only passive tracers), with a model similar to the Boussinesq equations. The resulting model is used in both direct numerical simulations and large eddy simulations of a dam-break (lock-exchange) problem, which is a well-known academic test case.

• 出版日期2015-1