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    An analytical study on the mechanism of grouping of droplets
    (2022) Vaikuntanathan, Visakh; Ibach, Matthias; Arad, Alumah; Chu, Xu; Katoshevski, David; Greenberg, Jerrold Barry; Weigand, Bernhard
    The condition for the formation of droplet groups in liquid sprays is poorly understood. This study looks at a simplified model system consisting of two iso-propanol droplets of equal diameter, Dd0, in tandem, separated initially by a center-to-center distance, a20, and moving in the direction of gravity with an initial velocity, Vd0>Vt, where Vt is the terminal velocity of an isolated droplet from Stokes flow analysis. A theoretical analysis based on Stokes flow around this double-droplet system is presented, including an inertial correction factor in terms of drag coefficient to account for large Reynolds numbers (≫1). From this analysis, it is observed that the drag force experienced by the leading droplet is higher than that experienced by the trailing droplet. The temporal evolutions of the velocity, Vd(t), of the droplets, as well as their separation distance, a2(t), are presented, and the time to at which the droplets come in contact with each other and their approach velocity at this time, ΔVd0, are calculated. The effects of the droplet diameter, Dd0, the initial droplet velocity, Vd0, and the initial separation, a20 on to and ΔVd0 are reported. The agreement between the theoretical predictions and experimental data in the literature is good.
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    Transport of turbulence across permeable interface in a turbulent channel flow : interface-resolved direct numerical simulation
    (2020) Chu, Xu; Wang, Wenkang; Yang, Guang; Terzis, Alexandros; Helmig, Rainer; Weigand, Bernhard
    Turbulence transportation across permeable interfaces is investigated using direct numerical simulation, and the connection between the turbulent surface flow and the pore flow is explored. The porous media domain is constructed with an in-line arranged circular cylinder array. The effects of Reynolds number and porosity are also investigated by comparing cases with two Reynolds numbers (Re≈3000,6000) and two porosities (φ=0.5,0.8). It was found that the change of porosity leads to the variation of flow motions near the interface region, which further affect turbulence transportation below the interface. The turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget shows that turbulent diffusion and pressure transportation work as energy sink and source alternatively, which suggests a possible route for turbulence transferring into porous region. Further analysis on the spectral TKE budget reveals the role of modes of different wavelengths. A major finding is that mean convection not only affects the distribution of TKE in spatial space, but also in scale space. The permeability of the wall also have an major impact on the occurrence ratio between blow and suction events as well as their corresponding flow structures, which can be related to the change of the Kármán constant of the mean velocity profile.
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    Thermofluids with porous media
    (2024) Chu, Xu; Weigand, Bernhard (Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil.)