Structure of Particle Clusters Formed in Gas-Solid flows

  • Tanaka, Toshitsugu (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University) ;
  • Ito, Akihito (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University) ;
  • Tsuji, Takuya (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Osaka University)
  • Published : 2006.10.13

Abstract

Characteristics of spatial structure of particle clusters are investigated by using the flow field data obtained from three-dimensional numerical simulations. Eulerian/Lagrangian approach with two-way coupling is applied and individual particle-particle collisions are taken into account by using the hard-sphere model. More than 16 million particles are traced in the maximum case. The results show that the cluster is consisted from the multiple-spatial scale components while the low wave-number, hence the large-scale structure, is dominant. Three-dimensional structure reconstructed from the low-pass filtered data enables us to investigate the essential dynamics of particle clusters in detail.

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