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Eddy diffusivities of inertial particles under gravity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2012

Marco Martins Afonso ,
Andrea Mazzino  and
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
Marco Martins Afonso*
Affiliation:
Université de Toulouse, INP/UPS/CNRS, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, groupe Particules Spray et Combustion, allée du Professeur Camille Soula, 31400 Toulouse, France Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, PO Box 4, 00014 Helsinki, Finland Institut de Mathématiques et de Modélisation de Montpellier, Université Montpellier 2, case courrier 051, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
Andrea Mazzino
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Genova, and CNISM & INFN, Genova Section, via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy
Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, PO Box 4, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
*
†Email address for correspondence: marcomar@fisica.unige.it
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Abstract

The large-scale/long-time transport of inertial particles of arbitrary mass density under gravity is investigated by means of a formal multiple-scale perturbative expansion in the scale-separation parameter between the carrier flow and the particle concentration field. The resulting large-scale equation for the particle concentration is determined, and is found to be diffusive with a positive definite eddy diffusivity. The calculation of the latter tensor is reduced to the resolution of an auxiliary differential problem, consisting of a coupled set of two differential equations in a -dimensional coordinate system (three space coordinates plus three velocity coordinates plus time). Although expensive, numerical methods can be exploited to obtain the eddy diffusivity, for any desirable non-perturbative limit (e.g. arbitrary Stokes and Froude numbers). The aforementioned large-scale equation is then specialized to deal with two different relevant perturbative limits: (i) vanishing of both Stokes time and sedimenting particle velocity; (ii) vanishing Stokes time and finite sedimenting particle velocity. Both asymptotics lead to a greatly simplified auxiliary differential problem, now involving only space coordinates and thus easily tackled by standard numerical techniques. Explicit, exact expressions for the eddy diffusivities have been calculated, for both asymptotics, for the class of parallel flows, both static and time-dependent. This allows us to investigate analytically the role of gravity and inertia on the diffusion process by varying relevant features of the carrier flow, such as the form of its temporal correlation function. Our results exclude a universal role played by gravity and inertia on the diffusive behaviour: regimes of both enhanced and reduced diffusion may exist, depending on the detailed structure of the carrier flow.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 694 , 10 March 2012 , pp. 426 - 463
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