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On the spatial distribution of small heavy particles in homogeneous shear turbulence. (Articolo in rivista)

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On the spatial distribution of small heavy particles in homogeneous shear turbulence. (Articolo in rivista) (literal)

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Claudia Nicolai(1,2), Boris Jacob (1) and Renzo Piva (2) (2013)
On the spatial distribution of small heavy particles in homogeneous shear turbulence.
in Physics of fluids (1994); AIP Publishing LLC, Melville, NY 11747 (Stati Uniti d'America)
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(1) CNR-INSEAN, via di Vallerano 139, 00128 Rome, Italy (2) DIMA, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy (literal)

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On the spatial distribution of small heavy particles in homogeneous shear turbulence. (literal)

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We report on a novel experiment aimed at investigating the effects induced by a large-scale velocity gradient on the turbulent transport of small heavy particles. To this purpose, a homogeneous shear flow at Re-lambda = 540 and shear parameter S* = 4.5 is set-up and laden with glass spheres whose size d is comparable with the Kolmogorov length-scale. of the flow (d/eta approximate to 1). The particle Stokes number is approximately 0.3. The analysis of the instantaneous particle fields by means of Voronoi diagrams confirms the occurrence of intense turbulent clustering at small scales, as observed in homogeneous isotropic flows. It also indicates that the anisotropy of the velocity fluctuations induces a preferential orientation of the particle clusters. In order to characterize the fine-scale features of the dispersed phase, spatial correlations of the particle field are employed in conjunction with statistical tools recently developed for anisotropic turbulence. The scale-by-scale analysis of the particle field clarifies that isotropy of the particle distribution is tendentially recovered at small separations, even though the signatures of the mean shear persist down to smaller scales as compared to the fluid velocity field. (literal)

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