Three-dimensional Lagrangian Voronoï analysis for clustering of particles and bubbles in turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 693, Issue , 2012, Pages 201-215

  Tagawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Mercado, Julián Martínez ^a   Prakash, Vivek N ^a   Calzavarini, Enrico ^b   Sun, Chao ^a   Lohse, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

homogeneous turbulence; multiphase and particle laden flows; turbulent flows

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AUTOCORRELATION; BUOYANCY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; HOMOGENEOUS ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; MULTIPHASE AND PARTICLE-LADEN FLOWS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED PARTICLES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TAYLOR-REYNOLDS NUMBER;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BUBBLE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84858685753     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.510     Document Type: Article

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