Sedimentation of Oblate Ellipsoids at low and Moderate Reynolds numbers

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2004-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402489v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physa.2004.05.043

In many applications to biophysics and environmental engineering, sedimentation of non-spherical particles for example: ellipsoids, is an important problem. In our work, we simulate the dynamics of oblate ellipsoids under gravity. We study the settling velocity and the average orientation of the ellipsoids as a function of volume fraction. We see that the settling velocity shows a local maximum at the intermmediate densities unlike the spheres. The average orientation of the ellipsoids also shows a similar local maximum and we observe that this local maximum disappears as the Reynolds number is increased. Also, at small volume fractions, we observe that the oblate ellipsoids exhibit an orientational clustering effect in alignment with gravity accompanied by strong density fluctuations. The vertical and horizontal fluctuations of the oblate ellipsoids are small compared to that of the spheres.

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