Inertial Settling of Flexible Fiber Suspensions

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Abstract

The inertial settling of suspensions of flexible and rigid fibers are investigated using an Immersed Boundary Method. For the settling of a suspension of inextensible and slender fibers at a Galileo number of $Ga=160$, we examine a range of dimensionless bending rigidities and fiber concentrations that span dilute and semi-dilute regimes ($0.5

*The support from the European Research Council grant no. ERC-2013- CoG-616186, TRITOS and the computer time provided by SNIC (Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing) are acknowledged.

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Authors

  • Mona Rahmani

    • University of British Columbia

  • Arash Alizad Banaei

    • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  • Mark Martinez

    • University of British Columbia

  • Luca Brandt

    • KTH Mechanics
    • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    • KTH
    • Linnè FLOW Centre and SeRC, KTH Mechanics
    • Kungliga Tekniska h\"{o}gskolan