Turbulent channel flow of finite-size spherical particles with viscous hyper-elastic walls
arXiv:1811.03053 · doi:10.1017/jfm.2019.413
Abstract
We study single-phase and particulate turbulent channel flows, bounded by two incompressible hyper-elastic walls. Different wall elasticities are considered with and without a 10% volume fraction of finite-size rigid spherical particles, while elastic walls are modelled as a neo-Hookean material. We report a significant drag increase and an enhancement of the turbulence activity with growing wall elasticity for both single-phase and particulate cases in comparison with the single-phase flow over rigid walls. A drag reduction and a turbulence attenuation is obtained for the particulate cases with highly elastic walls, albeit with respect to the single-phase flow of the same wall elasticity; whereas, an opposite effect of the particles is observed on the flow of the less elastic walls. This is explained by investigating the near-wall turbulence of highly elastic walls, where the strong asymmetry in the magnitude of wall-normal velocity fluctuations (favouring the positive), is found to push the particles towards the channel centre. The particle layer close to the wall is shown to contribute to the turbulence production by increasing the wall-normal velocity fluctuations, while in the absence of this layer, smaller wall deformation and in turn a turbulence attenuation is observed. We further address the effect of the volume fraction at a moderate wall elasticity, by increasing the particle volume fraction up to 20%. Migration of the particles from the interface region is found to be the cause of a further turbulence attenuation, in comparison to the same volume fraction in the case of rigid walls. However, the particle induced stress compensates for the loss of the Reynolds shear stress, thus, resulting in a higher overall drag for the case with elastic walls. The effect of wall-elasticity on the drag is reported to reduce significantly with increasing volume fraction of particles.
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