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Article Dans Une Revue Physica Scripta Année : 2013

Do finite size neutrally buoyant particles cluster?

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We investigate the preferential concentration of particles which are neutrally buoyant but with a diameter significantly larger than the dissipation scale of the carrier flow. Such particles are known not to behave as flow tracers (Qureshi et al., Phys. Re. Lett. 2007) but whether they do cluster or not remains an open question. For this purpose, we take advantage of a new turbulence generating apparatus, the Lagrangian Exploration Module which produces homogeneous and isotropic turbulence in a closed water flow. The flow is seeded with neutrally buoyant particles with diameter 700\mum, corresponding to 4.4 to 17 times the turbulent dissipation scale when the rotation frequency of the impellers driving the flow goes from 2 Hz to 12 Hz, and spanning a range of Stokes numbers from 1.6 to 24.2. The spatial structuration of these inclusions is then investigated by a Voronoi tesselation analysis, as recently proposed by Monchaux et al. (Phys. Fluids 2010), from images of particle concentration field taken in a laser sheet at the center of the flow. No matter the rotating frequency and subsequently the Reynolds and Stokes numbers, the particles are found not to cluster. The Stokes number by itself is therefore shown to be an insufficient indicator of the clustering trend in particles laden flows.
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hal-00941505 , version 1 (27-05-2020)

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Lionel Fiabane, Romain Volk, Jean-François Pinton, Romain Monchaux, Alain H. Cartellier, et al.. Do finite size neutrally buoyant particles cluster?. Physica Scripta, 2013, 2013 (T155), pp.014056. ⟨10.1088/0031-8949/2013/T155/014056⟩. ⟨hal-00941505⟩
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