On interaction between freely moving bodies and fluid in a channel flow

Abstract

The interaction between free fast-moving bodies (or particles) and the fluid surrounding them is studied, motivated by applications in different branches of industry, biomedicine, the environment and science such as flying droplets, ice growth, dust, impacts, food grains, sport, complexity and storms. New inviscid-based modelling and results on the behaviour of two interacting bodies inside a channel flow are described. This is followed by discussion of the more-bodies extension with a view to treating arrays of bodies in a rational manner. Significant dependences on initial conditions and on the comparative body masses and moments of inertia are found for the occurrence of body-body impacts as opposed to wall-body impacts and for the associated impact times.

Keywords

• Particle movement
• Channel flow
• Impacts
• Analysis
• Computation