Phase transitions in the distribution of inelastically colliding inertial particles
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Publication:2994559
DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/3/035102zbMATH Open1342.76062arXiv1503.04190OpenAlexW3105215232MaRDI QIDQ2994559
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Publication date: 2 August 2016
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Abstract: It was recently suggested that the sign of particle drift in inhomogeneous temperature or turbulence depends on the particle inertia: weakly inertial particles localize near minima of temperature or turbulence intensity (effects known as thermophoresis and turbophoresis), while strongly inertial particles fly away from minima in an unbounded space. The problem of a particle near minima of turbulence intensity is related to that of two particles in a random flow, so that the localization-delocalization transition in the former corresponds to the path-coalescence transition in the latter. The transition is signaled by the sign change of the Lyapunov exponent that characterizes the mean rate of particle approach to the minimum (which could be wall or another particle). Here we solve analytically this problem for inelastic collisions and derive the phase diagram for the transition in the inertia-inelasticity plane. An important feature of the phase diagram is the region of inelastic collapse: if the restitution coefficient of particle velocity is smaller than some critical value, then the particle is localized for any inertia. We present direct numerical simulations which support the theory and in addition reveal the dependence of the transition of the flow correlation time, characterized by the Stokes number.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04190
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