סמינר מחלקתי Prof. Bernhard Mehlig

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Monday, November 16, 2015 at 15:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

THE EFFECT OF PARTICLE AND FLUID INERTIA ON THE DYNAMICS OF PARTICLES IN FLOWS

Prof. Bernhard Mehlig

Department of Physics

University of Gothenburg

Sweden

The dynamics of a very small particle suspended in a fluid flow is simple: the centre-of-mass is advected by the fluid velocity, and the orientational dynamics is determined by the sequence of fluid-velocity gradients that the particle experiences. For larger particles inertial effects may become important. Particle inertia is relatively straightforward to treat and there has recently been substantial progress in understanding its effect upon the dynamics of particles in flows. The effect of fluid inertia, by contrast, is more difficult to describe. In this talk I will review what is known about the effect of fluid inertia upon the translational and orientational motion of particles in flows.