Analysis and Modeling of Non-Spherical Particle Motion in a Gas Flow

Abstract

This paper describes the reviews of the recent works in analysis, modeling, and simulation of the motion of a non-spherical particle. The motion of the non-spherical particles was analyzed in detail by means of a fully resolved direct numerical simulation (DNS). From the DNS data, the PDF-based drag coefficient model was proposed and applied to the particle dispersion simulation in an isotropic turbulent flow to assess the effect of the particle shape by comparing it with the motion of a spherical particle. Moreover, the model was applied to a large-eddy simulation (LES) of particle dispersion in an axial jet flow and validated by comparing it with the experimental data. Results showed that the effect of the particle shape was clearly observed in the characteristics of the particle dispersion in the isotropic turbulent flow by evaluating the deviation from the Poisson distribution (D number) and the radial distribution function (RDF). It was found that the non-spherical particle’s representative Stokes number becomes larger as the sphericity increases. Furthermore, it was also revealed that the effects of the particle size distribution and the shape observed in the experiment was precisely captured by the LES that coincided with the trend found in the isotropic turbulent flow.