Print Email Facebook Twitter Transition to Turbulence in the Presence of Finite Size Particles Title Transition to Turbulence in the Presence of Finite Size Particles Author Lashgari, I. Picano, F. Breugem, W.P. Brandt, L. Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Process and Energy Date 2015-07-02 Abstract We study the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in a channel seeded with finite-size neutrally buoyant particles. A fixed ratio of 10 between the channel height and the particle diameter is considered. The flow is examined in the range of Reynolds numbers 500 ? Re ? 5000 and the particle volume fractions 0.001 ? ? ? 0.3. We report a non-monotonic behavior of the threshold value of the Reynolds number above which the flow becomes turbulent, in agreement with previous experimental studies. The mean square velocity fluctuations and Reynolds shear stress of the fluid phase are reduced by increasing the particle volume fraction at a fixed Re=1500, while the mean square velocities of the solid phase are enhanced monotonically suggesting a transition from fluid to particle dominated dynamics at high volume fraction. Subject transitionfinite-size particlesinertial suspensions To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5a1b2763-4b90-411b-9cd9-93a760207ed8 Publisher Elsevier ISSN 2210-9838 Source https://doi.org/10.1016/j.piutam.2015.03.042 Source Procedia IUTAM, 14, 2015; IUTAM ABCM Symposium on Laminar Turbulent Transition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8-12 September 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2015 The AuthorsThis is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Files PDF Breugem_2015.pdf 633.75 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5a1b2763-4b90-411b-9cd9-93a760207ed8/datastream/OBJ/view