The objective of the paper is to present a statistical model for predicting pair dispersion and preferential concentration of particles suspended in an isotropic homogeneous turbulent flow field. This model is based on a kinetic equation for the probability density function of the relative velocities of two particles. The model developed is applied to predict the pair relative velocity statistics and the accumulation effect of heavy particles in a steady-state suspension. The effect of particle inertia on the predicted Eulerian two-point particle velocity correlations is demonstrated and compared with known results of numerical simulation.
The objective of the paper is to present and compare two models for the collision rate of inertial particles immersed in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. The merits and demerits of several known collision models are discussed. One of the models proposed in the paper is based on the assumption that the velocities of the fluid and a particle obey a correlated Gaussian distribution. The other model stems from a kinetic equation for the probability density function of the relative velocity distribution of two particles. The predictions obtained by means of these two models are compared with numerical simulations published in the literature.
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