A review on contact and collision methods for multi-body hydrodynamic problems in complex flows

S Karimnejad, AA Delouei, H Basagaoglu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Modeling and direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows have a tremendous variety
of applications in science and engineering across a vast spectrum of scales from pollution …

Incorporating grain-scale processes in macroscopic sediment transport models: a review and perspectives for environmental and geophysical applications

B Vowinckel - Acta Mechanica, 2021 - Springer
Sediment transport simulations face the challenge of accounting for vastly different scales in
space and time that cannot be tackled by a unifying approach. Instead, processes are …

Correlations for inclined prolates based on highly resolved simulations

K Fröhlich, M Meinke, W Schröder - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Efficient solution-adaptive simulations are conducted by a Cartesian cut-cell method to
analyse the flow field of prolate ellipsoids in uniform flow. The parameter space defined by …

A numerical study of the settling of non-spherical particles in quiescent water

X Cheng, Z Cao, J Li, A Borthwick - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Settling of non-spherical particles is poorly understood with previous studies having focused
mainly on spherical particles. Here, a series of particle-resolved direct numerical simulations …

Inertial migration of spherical and oblate particles in straight ducts

I Lashgari, MN Ardekani, I Banerjee… - Journal of fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We study numerically the inertial migration of a single rigid sphere and an oblate spheroid in
straight square and rectangular ducts. A highly accurate interface-resolved numerical …

Like stars falling down from the sky: resins effectively assist in and facilitate centrifugal separation and recycling of tiny microbial cells

Y Lv, T Yan, S Zhou, Y Xu - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial cell separation and recycling have become the major major high-cost procedures
in commercial fermentation biotechnology, especially for the difficult-to-cultivate strains. In …

Effects of the collision model in interface-resolved simulations of particle-laden turbulent channel flows

Y Xia, H Xiong, Z Yu, C Zhu - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The effects of the particle collision model in a direct-forcing fictitious domain method on the
fluid and particle statistics of a fully developed turbulent channel flow laden with finite-size …

Drag reduction in turbulent channel flow laden with finite-size oblate spheroids

MN Ardekani, P Costa, WP Breugem… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We study suspensions of oblate rigid particles in a viscous fluid for different values of the
particle volume fractions. Direct numerical simulations have been performed using a direct …

Computational modeling of multiphase viscoelastic and elastoviscoplastic flows

D Izbassarov, ME Rosti, MN Ardekani… - … Methods in Fluids, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a three‐dimensional numerical solver is developed for suspensions of rigid
and soft particles and droplets in viscoelastic and elastoviscoplastic (EVP) fluids. The …

Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 1. Moderately inertial regimes

J Zhang, MJ Ni, J Magnaudet - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
The buoyancy-driven motion of two identical gas bubbles released in line in a liquid at rest is
examined with the help of highly resolved simulations, focusing on moderately inertial …