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The effects of crossing trajectories on the dispersion of particles in a turbulent flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

M. R. Wells  and
D. E. Stock
M. R. Wells
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164 Present address: Amoco Production Research, Tulsa, OK.
D. E. Stock
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164
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Abstract

The effects of ‘crossing trajectories’ and inertia on the dispersion of particles suspended in a field of grid-generated turbulence were investigated experimentally. The effect of particle trajectories crossing the trajectories of fluid elements, under the influence of a potential field (usually gravity), is to force the particles from one region of highly correlated flow to another. In this manner, particles lose velocity correlation more rapidly than the corresponding fluid points and as a result disperse less.

A homogeneous decaying turbulent field was created behind a square biplanar grid in a wind tunnel. Particles were charged by a corona discharge then passed into the test section through a small plastic tube. A uniform electric field within the test section was used to simulate the effect of gravity, forcing the charged particles out of regions of correlated fluid at a higher than normal rate, therefore inducing the effects of crossing trajectories. Two sizes of glass beads (5 μm and 57 μm diameter) were employed in order to observe inertial effects. Laser-Doppler anemometry was used to measure particle mean-square displacement, autocorrelation coefficient, and mean-square velocity, from which dispersion coefficients were calculated.

For the two particle sizes used in the tests, it was found that the particle diffusion coefficient, after a suitably long time from their release, was influenced primarily by the effect of crossing trajectories. Only in the particle mean-square velocity was the particle inertia seen to have any effect. The ratio of the particle relaxation time to the Kolmogoroff timescale was found to be a good indicator for the effects of particle inertia.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 136 , November 1983 , pp. 31 - 62
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© 1983 Cambridge University Press

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