The calculation of settling speed of coarse particles is firstly addressed, with accelerated Stokesian dynamics without adjustable parameters, in which far field force acting on the particle instead of particle veloci...The calculation of settling speed of coarse particles is firstly addressed, with accelerated Stokesian dynamics without adjustable parameters, in which far field force acting on the particle instead of particle velocity is chosen as dependent variables to consider inter-particle hydrodynamic interactions. The sedimentation of a simple cubic array of spherical particles is simulated and compared to the results available to verify and validate the numerical code and computational scheme. The improved method keeps the same computational cost of the order O（NlogN） as usual accelerated Stokesian dynamics does. Then, more realistic random suspension sedimentation is investigated with the help of Mont Carlo method. The computational results agree well with experimental fitting. Finally, the sedimentation of finer cohesive particle, which is often observed in estuary environment, is presented as a further application in coastal engineering.展开更多
The correction of buoyancy effects is tackled for particles moving close to a singular corner in creeping flow conditions.A few density-mismatched particle trajectories are used to reconstruct the dynamics of a neutra...The correction of buoyancy effects is tackled for particles moving close to a singular corner in creeping flow conditions.A few density-mismatched particle trajectories are used to reconstruct the dynamics of a neutrally-buoyant particle all over the target domain.We propose to take advantage of the dissipative dynamics of density-mismatched particles in order to probe the target domain.Thereafter,we retrieve the neutrally-buoyant particle flow all over the domain by reconstructing the phase space of the density-mismatched particulate flow and taking the limit of the particle-to-fluid density ratio tending to one.The robustness of such an approach is demonstrated by deliberately ill-conditioning the reconstruction operator.In fact,we show that our algorithm well performs even when we rely on qualitatively-different density-mismatched orbit topologies or on bundles of close trajectories rather than homogeneously distributed orbits.Potential applications to microfluidics and improvements of the proposed algorithm are finally discussed.展开更多
Using direct numerical simulation, we investigate the coagulation behavior of non-Brownian colloidal particles as exemplified by Al2O3 particles. This yields the so-called capture efficiency, for which we give an anal...Using direct numerical simulation, we investigate the coagulation behavior of non-Brownian colloidal particles as exemplified by Al2O3 particles. This yields the so-called capture efficiency, for which we give an analytical expression, as well as other time-dependent variables such as the cluster growth rate. Instead of neglecting or strongly approximating the hydrodynamic interactions between particles, we include hydrodynamic and non-hydrodynamic interactions in a Stokesian dynamics approach and a comprehensive modeling of the interparticle forces. The resulting parallelized simulation framework enables us to investigate the dynamics of polydisperse particle systems composed of several hundred particles at the same high level of modeling we used for a close investigation of the coagulation behavior of two unequal particles in shear flow. Appropriate cluster detection yields all the information about large destabilizing systems, which is needed for models used in flow-sheet simulations. After non-dimensionalization, the results can be generalized and applied to other systems tending to secondary coagulation展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10332050 and 10572144)Knowledge Innovation Program (KJCX-SW-L08)
文摘The calculation of settling speed of coarse particles is firstly addressed, with accelerated Stokesian dynamics without adjustable parameters, in which far field force acting on the particle instead of particle velocity is chosen as dependent variables to consider inter-particle hydrodynamic interactions. The sedimentation of a simple cubic array of spherical particles is simulated and compared to the results available to verify and validate the numerical code and computational scheme. The improved method keeps the same computational cost of the order O（NlogN） as usual accelerated Stokesian dynamics does. Then, more realistic random suspension sedimentation is investigated with the help of Mont Carlo method. The computational results agree well with experimental fitting. Finally, the sedimentation of finer cohesive particle, which is often observed in estuary environment, is presented as a further application in coastal engineering.
文摘The correction of buoyancy effects is tackled for particles moving close to a singular corner in creeping flow conditions.A few density-mismatched particle trajectories are used to reconstruct the dynamics of a neutrally-buoyant particle all over the target domain.We propose to take advantage of the dissipative dynamics of density-mismatched particles in order to probe the target domain.Thereafter,we retrieve the neutrally-buoyant particle flow all over the domain by reconstructing the phase space of the density-mismatched particulate flow and taking the limit of the particle-to-fluid density ratio tending to one.The robustness of such an approach is demonstrated by deliberately ill-conditioning the reconstruction operator.In fact,we show that our algorithm well performs even when we rely on qualitatively-different density-mismatched orbit topologies or on bundles of close trajectories rather than homogeneously distributed orbits.Potential applications to microfluidics and improvements of the proposed algorithm are finally discussed.
文摘Using direct numerical simulation, we investigate the coagulation behavior of non-Brownian colloidal particles as exemplified by Al2O3 particles. This yields the so-called capture efficiency, for which we give an analytical expression, as well as other time-dependent variables such as the cluster growth rate. Instead of neglecting or strongly approximating the hydrodynamic interactions between particles, we include hydrodynamic and non-hydrodynamic interactions in a Stokesian dynamics approach and a comprehensive modeling of the interparticle forces. The resulting parallelized simulation framework enables us to investigate the dynamics of polydisperse particle systems composed of several hundred particles at the same high level of modeling we used for a close investigation of the coagulation behavior of two unequal particles in shear flow. Appropriate cluster detection yields all the information about large destabilizing systems, which is needed for models used in flow-sheet simulations. After non-dimensionalization, the results can be generalized and applied to other systems tending to secondary coagulation
