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Clustering and Turbophoresis in a Shear Flow without Walls

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We investigate the spatial distribution of inertial particles suspended in the bulk of a turbulent inhomogeneous flow. By means of direct numerical simulations of particle trajectories transported by the turbulent Kolmogorov flow, we study large and small scale mechanisms inducing inhomogeneities in the distribution of heavy particles. We discuss turbophoresis both for large and weak inertia, providing heuristic arguments for the functional form of the particle density profile. In particular, we argue and numerically confirm that the turbophoretic effect is maximal for particles of intermediate inertia. Our results indicate that small-scale fractal clustering and turbophoresis peak in different ranges in the particles' Stokes number and the separation of the two peaks increases with the flow's Reynolds number.
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hal-01279583 , version 1 (26-02-2016)

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Filippo de Lillo, Massimo Cencini, Stefano Musacchio, Guido Boffetta. Clustering and Turbophoresis in a Shear Flow without Walls. 2016. ⟨hal-01279583⟩
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