Effect of preferential concentration on turbulent collision rates

The effect of particle inertia on the interparticle collision rates of a turbulent aerosol was investigated recently by Sundaram and Collins (1997) using direct numerical simulation (DNS). They observed that for values of the particle Stokes number (here defined as the ratio of the particle response time to Kolmogorov time scale) near unity, the collision frequency was enhanced by between one and two orders of magnitude. This enhancement was attributed in part to the local enrichment of the particle concentration in low-vorticity regions of the flow due to the centrifuge effect commonly referred to as preferential concentration (Eaton and Fessler 1994). Sundaram and Collins (1997) showed that the correction factor for the collision kernel in a preferentially concentrated system is g(σ), where g(r) is the particle radial distribution function and σ is the collision diameter. This paper uses DNS, in combination with statistical analysis, to study the dependence of the radial distribution function on the tur...

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