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Article
Nonlinear disturbance growth during sedimentation in dilute fibre suspensions
| Authors: |
Zhang, F.Z., Dahlkild, A. A., Lundell, F. |
| Document Type: |
Article |
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Published |
| Journal: |
Journal of Fluid Mechancis |
| Volume: |
719
268-294 |
| Year: |
2013 |
AbstractDisturbances in a dilute fibre suspension are studied with an Eulerian approach. Based on a linear stability analysis, it is shown that inertia and hydrodynamic diffusion damp perturbations at long wavelengths and short wavelengths, respectively, leading to a wavenumber selection. For small but finite Reynolds number of the fluid bulk motion, the most unstable wavenumber is a finite value, which increases with Reynolds number. Furthermore, the diffusion narrows the range of unstable wavenumbers. Numerical simulations of the full nonlinear evolution in time of a normal-mode perturbation show that the induced flow may either die out or saturate on a finite amplitude. The character of this long-time behaviour is dictated by the wavenumber and the presence or absence, as well as nature, of the translational and rotational diffusivities.
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