A polydisperse Gaussian-moment model for dilute turbulent multiphase flows
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Abstract
The accurate modelling of polydisperse multiphase flows in which a discrete particle phase is suspended in a background fluid remains a considerable challenge. Reliable numerical predictions are especially difficult for turbulent background flows in which a turbulence model is used to account for unresolved turbulent scales. Currently, Lagrangian descriptions for the particle phase are the most common. However, the numerical cost associated with such an approach can be prohibitive. This is especially true when particles are differentiated by numerous properties, thus greatly increasing the number of particles needed for a reliable prediction. Even when sufficient particles are used, the exact effect of unresolved turbulent effects on the particle phase remains difficult to describe. Eulerian descriptions are often more affordable, but traditionally describe only a few low-order statistics of the particle phase and present known mathematical artifacts. More recently, the polydisperse Gaussian moment method (PGM) has been proposed as an Eulerian model for polydisperse flows that includes second-order statistics between all particle properties. This paper demonstrates a simple method by which PGM models can be coupled to an unresolved background turbulent flow field. This treatment leads to an algebraic source of local particle-velocity variance that is caused by turbulent fluctuations. The new model is used to recreate classical experimental dispersion results for particles in a turbulent wind tunnel . Though good agreement is found for monodisperse flows, it is found that the turbulent PGM results spuriously overpredict the dispersion of larger particles. The source of this discrepancy is identified as a limitation of all moment methods with only second-order statistics of multiphase flows exhibiting additional distinguishing properties. In actual flows, turbulence should lead to more dispersion of smaller particles. However, proper statistical treatments of this effect would require a third-order moment relating velocity variance to particle size. This moment is assumed to be zero in the PGM. Thus, this effect cannot be properly captured by PGM methods, regardless of the turbulence model used.
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