L.VILLAFANE - Preferential concentration of inertial particles and cluster dynamics in channel turbulence
Laura Villafañe Roca, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, USA; lvillafa@illinois.edu Thursday, April 2nd (2026), 16:30 Paris Time, LMFL Small heavy particles are known to preferentially concentrate when dispersed in turbulent flows because of their finite but larger than fluid inertia. The spatiotemporal characteristics of regions of high particle concentration, or clusters, can modulate the carrier flow and affect phenomena relying on local concentration or path integrated quantities, such as heat transfer between particle and fluid phases or transmission through the…
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