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Fractional dynamics of tethered particles in oscillatory Stokes flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2014

Edwin A. Lim ,
Marcelo H. Kobayashi  and
Carlos F. M. Coimbra
Edwin A. Lim
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Marcelo H. Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Carlos F. M. Coimbra*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: ccoimbra@ucsd.edu
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Abstract

A mechanistic model for the low-Reynolds-, high-Strouhal-number behaviour of a system consisting of a spherical particle attached to an inelastic tether under uniform sinusoidal cross-flow is presented. Unsteady history drag and virtual mass effects are considered for both the sphere and the tether. The mechanics of the problem is such that the resulting coupled fractional differential equations are linear and solvable analytically. The stationary solutions obtained in this work show that there are limiting dimensions for the length and thickness of the tether when compared to the radius of the particle that allow for the motion of the particle–tether system to simulate the motion of a free particle. These conditions exist for the range of small oscillation amplitudes that are required for keeping the particle Reynolds number smaller than unity while oscillating the particle–tether system at high frequencies (Strouhal numbers larger than unity). The fractional order model for the particle–tether system is compared against detailed experimental results for tethered particles for a wide range of experimental frequencies, including the low-frequency range where tether effects are measurable.

JFM classification

Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Multiphase flow Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Particle/fluid flow
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 746 , 10 May 2014 , pp. 606 - 625
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© 2014 Cambridge University Press 

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