Separation of screw-sensed particles in a homogeneous shear field

The Stokes motions of three-dimensional screw-sensed slender particles in a homogeneous shear field are investigated, including the effects of buoyancy. Conclusions are drawn about the possibility of achieving a separation of mixtures of right- and left-handed particles. The linearity of the Stokes equations allows complex flows to be solved by adding the effects of the several terms which describe the flow in which the particle is immersed. The homogeneous shear flow considered here consists of three such terms; solutions for a series of 12 unit motions are sufficient to determine the hydrodynamic resistance tensors. The forces and torques experienced by screw-sensed particles are calculated from these 51 resistance tensors, using slender-filament theory. The results allow an estimate of the range of buoyancy parameters for which gravitational sedimentation can be neglected. The fundamental component of the particle motion is a rotation, at approximately the same angular velocity as that of the fluid. Superimposed on this are variations, of large period, in the particle orientation. A phase plane analysis is used to find the terminal orientations. Very long calculation times are required for the phase portrait. An approximate method based on azimuthally-averaged equations is developed to avoid the requirements for long time integration.     

气固两相流介尺度LBM-DEM模型

LBM-DEM耦合方法通常是指一种颗粒流体系统直接数值模拟算法,即是一种不引入经验曳力模型的计算方法,颗粒尺寸通常比计算网格的长度大一个量级,颗粒的受力通过表面的粘性力与压力积分获得,其优点是能描述每个颗粒周围的详细流场,产生详细的颗粒-流体相互作用的动力学信息,可以探索颗粒流体界面的流动、传递和反应的详细信息及两相相互作用的本构关系,但其缺点是计算量巨大,无法应用于真实流化床过程模拟。本文针对气固流化床中的流体以及固体颗粒间的多相流体力学行为,建立了一种稠密气固两相流的介尺度LBMDEM模型,即LBM-DEM耦合的离散颗粒模型,实现在颗粒尺度上流化床的快速离散模拟。该耦合模型采用格子玻尔兹曼方法(LBM)描述气相的流动和传递行为,离散单元法(DEM)用于描述颗粒相的运动,并利用能量最小多尺度(EMMS)曳力解决气固耦合不成熟问题,以提高其模拟精度。通过经典快速流态化的模拟,验证了介尺度LBM-DEM耦合模型的有效性。模拟结果表明介尺度LBM-DEM模型是一种探索实验室规模气固系统的有力手段。     

Single-Fluid Model of a Mixture for Laminar Flows of Highly Concentrated Suspensions

A model of laminar flow of a highly concentrated suspension is proposed. The model includes the equation of motion for the mixture as a whole and the transport equation for the particle concentration, taking into account a phase slip velocity. The suspension is treated as a Newtonian fluid with an effective viscosity depending on the local particle concentration. The pressure of the solid phase induced by particle-particle interactions and the hydrodynamic drag force with account of the hindering effect are described using empirical formulas. The partial-slip boundary condition for the mixture velocity on the wall models the formation of a slip layer near the wall. The model is validated against experimental data for rotational Couette flow, a plane-channel flow with neutrally buoyant particles, and a fully developed flow with heavy particles in a horizontal pipe. Based on the comparison with the experimental data, it is shown that the model predicts well the dependence of the pressure difference on the mixture velocity and satisfactorily describes the dependence of the delivered particle concentration on the flow velocity.     

双柱状颗粒在线性剪切流场中的动力学分析

为研究柱状颗粒在线性剪切流场中的运动状态和受力情况,本文以颗粒长径比为2,颗粒之间的初始距离ΔS_Py=4D为例,基于直接力浸入边界法数值模拟了双柱状颗粒在三维线性剪切流场中的运动过程。根据模拟结果分析了柱状颗粒周围流场参数分布,在考虑壁面对颗粒的影响和颗粒之间相互影响的条件下,研究了颗粒的受力和运动的变化,探索了流体曳力导致柱状颗粒迁移和转动的规律。研究结果表明,双柱状颗粒在线性剪切流场中易向速度大的流体区域运动;前后两颗粒运动状态和轨迹不同,颗粒之间距离较近时,曳力会产生较大的波动;只有当颗粒在壁面附近时,滞后颗粒才能追上领先颗粒,两颗粒发生牵引、翻滚和分离过程。     

基于2D网格的轴对称浸没边界法

浸没边界法是处理颗粒两相流中运动边界问题的一种常用数值模拟方法. 当研究的物理问题的无量纲参数满足一定要求时, 该流场结构呈现轴对称状态. 为此本文提出了一种基于2D笛卡尔网格和柱坐标系的轴对称浸没边界法. 该算法采用有限体积法(FVM)对动量方程进行空间离散, 并通过阶梯状锐利界面替代真实的固体浸没边界来封闭控制方程. 为了提高计算效率, 本文采用自适应网格加密技术提高浸没边界附近网格分辨率. 由于柱坐标系的使用, 使得动量方程中的黏性项产生多余的源项, 我们对其作隐式处理. 此外, 在对小球匀速近壁运动进行直接数值模拟时, 由于球壁间隙很小, 间隙内的压力变化比较剧烈. 因此想要精确地解析流场需要很高的网格分辨率. 此时, 需要在一个时间步内多次实施投影步来保证计算的稳定性. 而在小球自由碰壁运动中, 我们通过引入一个润滑力模型使得低网格分辨率下也能模拟小球近壁处的运动. 最后通过小球和圆盘绕流、Stokes流小球近壁运动以及小球自由下落碰壁弹跳算例验证本算法对于轴对称流的静边界和动边界问题均是适用和准确的.      

明渠湍流边界层中颗粒的运动与分布

利用直接数值模拟、点球浸入边界法和颗粒离散元法相结合的方法, 模拟了颗粒在明渠湍流边界层中的运动, 并对颗粒的瞬时位置进行了Voronoi 分析, 定量研究了颗粒在湍流边界层中的运动和分布规律. 研究发现:颗粒的输运对湍流的统计特征有影响, 其运动与近壁区湍流拟序结构密切相关, 在"喷发"结构作用下被带离壁面, 在"扫掠" 结构和自身重力作用下回到壁面; 在湍流边界层中, 颗粒倾向于聚集在低流速带, 呈条带状分布;颗粒在大部分时间处于"簇"状态, 偶尔跳跃到"空" 状态, 但能够很快回到邻近低速区域.      

压力梯度对边界层两相流动稳定性的影响

分析了有压力梯度的边界层两相流动稳定性,推导出类似于Saffman理论的修正的稳定性方程,数值计算采用高精度的谱方法。结果说明,压力梯度对边界层两相流动稳定性有显著的影响,顺压梯度增强流动稳定性,而逆压梯度则促进流动失稳。在不同的压力梯度和浓度下,Stokes数对流动稳定性的影响是一致的,存在一个临界Stokes数,小Stokes数促进流动失稳,而大Stokes数则提高临界雷诺数,抑制流动失稳的最佳Stokes数为10的量级。     

Transport modeling of sedimenting particles in a turbulent pipe flow using Euler–Lagrange large eddy simulation

A volume-filtered Euler–Lagrange large eddy simulation methodology is used to predict the physics of turbulent liquid–solid slurry flow through a horizontal periodic pipe. A dynamic Smagorinsky model based on Lagrangian averaging is employed to account for the sub-filter scale effects in the liquid phase. A fully conservative immersed boundary method is used to account for the pipe geometry on a uniform cartesian grid. The liquid and solid phases are coupled through volume fraction and momentum exchange terms. Particle–particle and particle–wall collisions are modeled using a soft-sphere approach. Three simulations are performed by varying the superficial liquid velocity to be consistent with the experimental data by Dahl et al. (2003). Depending on the liquid flow rate, a particle bed can form and develop different patterns, which are discussed in light of regime diagrams proposed in the literature. The fluctuation in the height of the liquid-bed interface is characterized to understand the space and time evolution of these patterns. Statistics of engineering interest such as mean velocity, mean concentration, and mean streamwise pressure gradient driving the flow are extracted from the numerical simulations and presented. Sand hold-up calculated from the simulation results suggest that this computational strategy is capable of predicting critical deposition velocity.     

Accelerating fully resolved simulation of particle-laden flows on heterogeneous computer architectures

An efficient computing framework, namely PFlows, for fully resolved-direct numerical simulations of particle-laden flows was accelerated on NVIDIA General Processing Units (GPUs) and GPU-like accelerator (DCU) cards. The framework is featured as coupling the lattice Boltzmann method for fluid flow with the immersed boundary method for fluid-particle interaction, and the discrete element method for particle collision, using two fixed Eulerian meshes and one moved Lagrangian point mesh, respectively. All the parts are accelerated by a fine-grained parallelism technique using CUDA on GPUs, and further using HIP on DCU cards, i.e., the calculation on each fluid grid, each immersed boundary point, each particle motion, and each pair-particle collision is responsible by one computer thread, respectively. Coalesced memory accesses to LBM distribution functions with the data layout of Structure of Arrays are used to maximize utilization of hardware bandwidth. Parallel reduction with shared memory for data of immersed boundary points is adopted for the sake of reducing access to global memory when integrate particle hydrodynamic force. MPI computing is further used for computing on heterogeneous architectures with multiple CPUs-GPUs/DCUs. The communications between adjacent processors are hidden by overlapping with calculations. Two benchmark cases were conducted for code validation, including a pure fluid flow and a particle-laden flow. The performances on a single accelerator show that a GPU V100 can achieve 7.1–11.1 times speed up, while a single DCU can achieve 5.6–8.8 times speed up compared to a single Xeon CPU chip (32 cores). The performances on multi-accelerators show that parallel efficiency is 0.5–0.8 for weak scaling and 0.68–0.9 for strong scaling on up to 64 DCU cards even for the dense flow (φ = 20%). The peak performance reaches 179 giga lattice updates per second (GLUPS) on 256 DCU cards by using 1 billion grids and 1 million particles. At last, a large-scale simulation of a gas-solid flow with 1.6 billion grids and 1.6 million particles was conducted using only 32 DCU cards. This simulation shows that the present framework is prospective for simulations of large-scale particle-laden flows in the upcoming exascale computing era.     

Flow through a thin porous layer (grid)

This paper gives an exact hydrodynamic formulation of the problem of flow though a grid, regarded as a limiting case of a thin porous layer. The formulated coupling conditions on the grid contain two characteristics: the resistance coefficient and the refractive index, which are connected by a universal relation, independent of the grid resistance law and the nature of the flow. Problems of a weakly disturbed flow of fluid passing through the grid in a plane channel are considered as an illustration. A qualitative explanation of the calculated effects is given. Smoothing grids, distributing and supporting grids, in, for instance, apparatuses with a stationary or fluidized bed, and thin porous heat-producing layers are widely used. The interaction of a flow with a smoothing grid has been investigated in the hydraulic formulation [1]. In this case the grid acted only as a source of pressure difference and was characterized by the resistance coefficient alone. Yet a grid (screen), which is a thin structured layer, will, generally speaking, also have a refractive effect on the flow. In fact, in the case of inclined incidence the flow will tend to turn in the direction of least resistance, i.e., perpendicular to the layer. It is significant that such acceleration of the flow within the layer cannot be described within the framework of the Darcy model, which assumes that the motion is inertialess. In view of this, the exact hydrodynamic formulation of the problem of flow through a grid, regarded as a surface of discontinuity, is based on a previously proposed model^* that takes inertial effects into account.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 74–80, July–August, 1978.     

垂直湍流液-固流中大颗粒的相对速度

通过量纲分析和实验测量,对于垂直、局部均匀的湍流稀态液一固流中,大颗粒的相对速度,建立了无量纲参数表达式．用分析和实验相结合的方法,确定了表达式中无量纲参数的幂次及有关系数．实验中用激光多普勒分相测量技术,分别测出流体和颗粒的时均速度结果表明,大颗粒相对速度强烈依赖于流体雷诺数,当流体雷诺数较高时,其幂次渐近于1.5。     

A direct‐forcing pressure‐based lattice Boltzmann method for solving fluid–particle interaction problems

A direct‐forcing immersed boundary‐lattice Boltzmann method (IB–LBM) is developed to simulate fluid–particle interaction problems. This method uses the pressure‐based LBM to solve the incompressible flow field and the immersed boundary method to handle the fluid–particle interactions. The pressure‐based LBM uses the pressure distribution functions instead of the density distribution functions as the independent dynamic variables. The main idea is to explicitly eliminate the compressible effect due to the density fluctuation. In the IB method, a direct‐forcing method is introduced to capture the particle motion. It directly computes an IB force density at each lattice grid from the differences between the pressure distribution functions obtained by the LBM and the equilibrium pressure distribution functions computed from the particle velocity. By applying this direct‐forcing method, the IB–LBM becomes a purely LBM version. Also, by applying the Gauss theorem, the formulas for computing the force and the torque acting on the particle from the flows are derived from the volume integrals over the particle volume instead of from the surface integrals over the particle surface. The order of accuracy of the IB–LBM is demonstrated on the errors of velocity field, wall stress, and gradients of velocity and pressure. As a demonstration of the efficiency and capabilities of the new method, sedimentation of a large number of spherical particles in an enclosure is simulated. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Spectrum of density fluctuations in a particle-fluid system— i. monodisperse spheres

A method for calculating the density autocorrelation ′(x)′(x + r) for a homogeneous particle-fluid system in both physical and Fourier transform space has been developed. The density autocorrelation was related to two quantities, the Overlap function which is defined as the volume of intersection of two spheres as a function of the separation distance and the radial distribution function (RDF) of the particles. In dimensionless co-ordinates, the parameter that characterizes the density autocorrelation is the volume fraction of particles, ₁, , or equivalently the dimensionless mean separation distance (normalized by the particle diameter), . For an isotropic randomly distributed system of particles, the density autocorrelation was observed to oscillate with the correlation distance r, with a wavelength that was proportional to λ. The Fourier transform of the autocorrelation likewise oscillated with the wavenumber k, however the effect of changes in the particle volume fraction was limited to the first peak only. Subsequent peaks were more closely associated with the Overlap function.

The results for the density autocorrelation were extended to a particle-fluid system which experienced an asymptotically large pressure gradient. This initially produced a uniform relative motion between the two fields. In this limit, other higher-order moments such as the Reynolds stress can be related to the density autocorrelation in a straightforward manner. Moreover the spectral shapes of all moments collapse onto the density autocorrelation spectrum in this limit. It was pointed out that the uniform relative motion will eventually become unstable because of hydrodynamic forces on the particles induced by the relative motion. This effect was estimated by introducing a mildly attractive force into the RDF. The results demonstrated that the induced hydrodynamic force promoted a shift in the density spectrum toward small k (large scale) indicating an alternative mechanism for growth in the integral length scale.     

片状颗粒间液桥力变化规律的计算研究

研究颗粒间液桥力有助于揭示非饱和土持水特性的内在机理. 为探究片状颗粒间液桥力演化规律, 从细观尺度研究非饱和土的水力特性机理, 使用Surface Evolver软件在两平行的片状颗粒间构建出三维液桥模型, 分析了液桥拉伸过程中接触角、液桥体积、分离距离以及固液接触线钉扎效应等对液桥力变化规律的影响. 基于圆弧假定, 计算相应条件下液桥力以及接触半径的大小, 并与上述模拟结果进行对比分析. 结果表明: 片状颗粒间液桥力随液桥体积增大而递增, 随分离距离的增大而递减, 随固液接触角的增大先增后减或一直递减; 液桥体积一定时, 在钉扎状态下, 其液桥力随着分离距离的增大迅速递增达到峰值, 而后逐渐降低; Surface Evolver模拟与液桥界面环形近似的计算结果相对比, 当固液接触角较大时(θ = 60°和θ = 80°), 二者相对误差在6%以内, 而当固液接触角减小到30°及以下时, 相对误差随之增大, 且颗粒间分离距离越大, 相对误差越大.      

湍流边界层中固体颗粒运动的数值模拟

根据Ｌａｇｒａｎｇｅ颗粒运动微分方程及不可压缩湍流边界层中流体的壁面速度分布规律，数值求解了颗粒在湍流边界层中的运动，考虑了Ｓａｆｆｍａｎ升为对颗粒运动的影响，壁面对运动阻力的影响，给出了固体颗粒沉积边壁，在边界层外缘上所需的最小速度和最小入射角，计算结果还表明边界层对固体颗粒撞击边壁的速度和入射角有较大影响，从数值结果可可以发现一个重要现象。     

Dynamic simulation of non-spherical particulate suspensions

Particle-level simulation has been employed to investigate rheology and microstructure of non-spherical particulate suspensions in a simple shear flow. Non-spherical particles in Newtonian fluids are modeled as three-dimensional clusters of neutrally buoyant, non-Brownian spheres linked together by Hookean-type constraint force. Rotne–Prager correction to velocity disturbance has been employed to account for far-field hydrodynamic interactions. An isolated rod-like particle in simple shear flow exhibits a periodic orientation distribution, commonly referred to as Jeffery orbit. Lubrication-like repulsive potential between clusters have been included in simulation of rod-like suspensions at various aspect ratios over dilute to semi-dilute volume fractions. Shear viscosity evaluated by orientation distribution qualitatively agrees with one obtained by direct computation of shear stress.     

Slow Motion of an Assemblage of Porous Spherical Shells Relative to a Fluid

The body-force-driven motion of a homogeneous distribution of spherically symmetric porous shells in an incompressible Newtonian fluid and the fluid flow through a bed of these shell particles are investigated analytically. The effect of the hydrodynamic interaction among the porous shell particles is taken into account by employing a cell-model representation. In the limit of small Reynolds number, the Stokes and Brinkman equations are solved for the flow field around a single particle in a unit cell, and the drag force acting on the particle by the fluid is obtained in closed forms. For a suspension of porous spherical shells, the mobility of the particles decreases or the hydrodynamic interaction among the particles increases monotonically with a decrease in the permeability of the porous shells. The effect of particle interactions on the creeping motion of porous spherical shells relative to a fluid can be quite significant in some situations. In the limiting cases, the analytical solution describing the drag force or mobility for a suspension of porous spherical shells reduces to those for suspensions of impermeable solid spheres and of porous spheres. The particle-interaction behavior for a suspension of porous spherical shells with a relatively low permeability may be approximated by that of permeable spheres when the porous shells are sufficiently thick.     

Direct numerical simulation of particle–fluid systems by combining time-driven hard-sphere model and lattice Boltzmann method

A coupled numerical method for the direct numerical simulation of particle–fluid systems is formulated and implemented, resolving an order of magnitude smaller than particle size. The particle motion is described by the time-driven hard-sphere model, while the hydrodynamic equations governing fluid flow are solved by the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Particle–fluid coupling is realized by an immersed boundary method (IBM), which considers the effect of boundary on surrounding fluid as a restoring force added to the governing equations of the fluid. The proposed scheme is validated in the classical flow-around-cylinder simulations, and preliminary application of this scheme to fluidization is reported, demonstrating it to be a promising computational strategy for better understanding complex behavior in particle–fluid systems.     

Sliding of fine particles on the slip surface of rising gas bubbles: Resistance of liquid shear flows

In this paper a model was developed to describe the shear flow resistance force and torque acting on a fine particle as it slides on the slip surface of a rising gas bubble. The shear flow close to the bubble surface was predicted using a Taylor series and the numerical data obtained from the Navier–Stokes equations as a function of the polar coordinates at the bubble surface, the bubble Reynolds number, and the gas hold-up. The particle size was considered to be sufficiently small relative to the bubble size that the bubble surface could be locally approximated to a planar interface. The Stokes equation for the disturbance shear flows was solved for the velocity components and pressure using series of bispherical coordinates and the boundary conditions at the no-slip particle surface and the slip bubble surface. The solutions for the disturbance flows were then used to calculate the flow resistance force and torque on the particle as a function of the separation distance between the bubble and particle surfaces. The resistance functions were determined by dividing the actual force and torque by the corresponding (Stokes) force and torque in the bulk phase. Finally, numerical and simplified analytical rational approximate solutions for force correction factors for sliding particles as a function of the (whole range of the) separation distance are presented, which are in good agreement with the exact numerical result and can be readily applied to more general modelling of the bubble–particle interactions.     

Wave regimes of ascending flow of a thin layer of a viscous liquid in contact with a gas

The flow of a liquid in thin layers is one of the hydrodynamic problems of chemistry and heat engineering. The large surface area of films and their small thickness make it possible to accelerate thermal, diffusive, and chemical processes at the gas-liquid boundary.Theoretical studies of liquid flow in a vertical descending thin layer are presented in [1–4]. In this paper we study ascending wave flows of a liquid in a thin vertical layer in contact with a gas, i.e., flows in the direction opposite the action of the force due to gravity, with account for the action of the gas on the liquid surface. Such motions are encountered when oil is extracted from strata that are saturated with gas. At some distance from the stratum the oil and gas separate: the gas travels at high velocity inside the pipe, occupying a considerable portion of the pipe, and the liquid is displaced toward the pipe walls, forming a thin film. In certain cases a wave-like interface develops between the oil and gas that travels with a velocity greater than that of the liquid but less than the average gas velocity. Similar phenomena are observed in high velocity mass exchangers.We examine the effect of the gas for both laminar and turbulent flow.Studies that neglect the effect of the gas flow on the liquid show that for waves on the film surface whose lengths are considerably longer than the average thickness of the layer, the liquid motion in the film is described by boundary layer equations in which account is taken of the mass force, i.e., the force due to gravity. With some approximation, we can assume that in accounting for the effect of the gas on the liquid the liquid flow is described by these same equations.