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Wall-bounded thermal turbulent convection driven by heat-releasing point particles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2022

Yuhang Du  and
Yantao Yang Open the ORCID record for Yantao Yang [Opens in a new window]
Yuhang Du
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, and Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China Joint Laboratory of Marine Hydrodynamics and Ocean Engineering, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Shandong 266299, PR China
Yantao Yang*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, and Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China Joint Laboratory of Marine Hydrodynamics and Ocean Engineering, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Shandong 266299, PR China
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

In this work we investigate the thermal convection driven by heat-releasing point particles. Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations are conducted for $1\times 10^7\le {\textit {Ra}} \le 1\times 10^{10}$ and $0.01\le {\textit {St}} \le 10$, where the Rayleigh number ${\textit {Ra}}$ and Stokes number ${\textit {St}}$ measure the strengths of the heat releasing rate and the Stokes drag, respectively. A regime at intermediate Stokes numbers is identified with most particles accumulating into the top boundary layer region, while for other cases particles are constantly advected over the entire domain. For the latter state, the flow motions are stronger at the upper part of the domain. The thicknesses of both momentum and thermal boundary layers at the top plate follow the same scaling law with ${\textit {Ra}}$ and show minor dependences on ${\textit {St}}$. The volume-averaged temperature and convective flux exhibit non-monotonic variations as ${\textit {St}}$ increases and reach their minimums at intermediate ${\textit {St}}$. The fraction coefficient of heat flux, i.e. the ratio between the heat flux through the bottom plate and the total flux through both plates, shares the similar dependence on ${\textit {St}}$ as the convective flux. The relation between these scaling laws can be explained by using the global balance between the dissipation and convective flux. The scaling laws for the transition between different flow regimes are also proposed and agree with the numerical results. The preferential concentration of particles is observed for all cases and is strongest at intermediate Stokes numbers, for which multiscale clustering emerges with small clusters forming larger ones.

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Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Particle/fluid flow Turbulent Flows: Turbulent convection
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 953 , 25 December 2022 , A41
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