
Volume 42, Issues 11–12, November–December 1995, Pages 1989–2004
Preferential concentration of marine particles in isotropic turbulence
- * Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0156, U.S.A.
- † Department of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Fisheries, 4-57 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan
- ‡ Center for Earth and Ocean Research, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 2Y2
- Received 6 May 1994
- Revised 13 March 1995
- Accepted 3 July 1995
- Available online 10 March 2000
Abstract
The effect of small-scale turbulence on marine and aquatic particle transport has traditionally been to act as a means for creating homogeneous distributions. However, previous numerical simulations of heavy particle transport in turbulent flows have shown that particles are preferentially concentrated by turbulence and that effects of preferential concentration are most pronounced for particle parameters comparable to the Kolmogorov scales. Therefore, the focus of the present work is examination of the preferential concentration of marine particles. Application of Kolmogorov scaling indicates that effects of preferential concentration may be important for marine particles with diameters of order 1 mm in the upper mixed layer. Numerical simulations of unstratified isotropic turbulence are then used to support the notion that preferential concentration of particles possessing material characteristics representative of those encountered in marine environments can occur. In the simulations, particles of order 1 mm diameter are idealized as rigid spheres with a density ratio of 1.005. Simulation results demonstrate preferential concentration with peak particle number densities ranging from 10 to 60 times the global mean value. Implications of preferential concentration are also discussed, together with the limitations of the approach employed in the present study.
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