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Effect of inertial migration of particles on flow transitions of a suspension Taylor-Couette flow

Lina Baroudi, Madhu V. Majji, and Jeffrey F. Morris
Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 114303 – Published 11 November 2020

Abstract

The influence of inertial migration of neutrally buoyant particles on inertial flow transitions in Taylor-Couette (TC) flow of a suspensions is studied; this work considers primarily transitions associated with the circular Couette flow (CCF) and Taylor vortex flow (TVF) regimes. A concentric cylinder Taylor-Couette device with a stationary outer cylinder and rotating inner cylinder is considered. The device has an inner to outer radius ratio of η=di/do=0.877, where di and do are the inner and outer diameters of the flow annulus. The ratio of the axial length to the radial gap of the annulus Γ=L/δ=20.5, where δ=(dodi)/2. The ratio of radial gap δ and the particle diameter dp is α=δ/dp=30.4 and the particle volume fraction considered in this work is ϕ=0.10. A flow structure (CCF or TVF) near the transition boundary with either uniform distribution across the annular region or fully migrated concentration profile is established. The Reynolds number (Re) is subjected to a rapid step change to study the effect of the concentration profile on the flow transition Re and resulting flow structure evolution; here the Reynolds number is Re=δdiωiρ/2μs, where ωi is the rotation rate of the inner cylinder and ρ and μs are the density and effective viscosity of the suspension. Our results show that, relative to uniform concentration, the particle distribution following inertial migration destabilizes the CCF state near the CCF-nonaxisymmetric flow transition boundary. In contrast to this destabilizing effect in CCF, migration of particles in the TVF regime has a stabilizing effect on the TVF-wavy Taylor vortex and TVF-nonaxisymmetric flow transition boundaries. The transition away from the TVF exhibits clear hysteresis associated with migration, as once initiated TVF could be sustained below and above the transition boundaries observed for suspension TC flow with uniform concentration.

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  • Received 9 August 2020
  • Accepted 6 October 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.114303

©2020 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Fluid DynamicsParticles & Fields

Authors & Affiliations

Lina Baroudi*

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manhattan College, Bronx, New York 10471, USA

Madhu V. Majji

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

Jeffrey F. Morris

  • Levich Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering, CUNY City College of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA

  • *lina.baroudi@manhattan.edu

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Vol. 5, Iss. 11 — November 2020

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