Confinement of inertial particles in viscous boundary layer of turbulent flow
S. Belan, A. Chernykh+*, V. Lebedev, S. Vergeles
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Russia
+Institute of Automation and Electrometry SB of the RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
*Novosibirsk State University, 630073 Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract
We examine space and momentum probability distribution of inertial particles
when they are placed in the viscous boundary sublayer of a turbulent flow. We
demonstrate that at varying elasticity of the particle collisions with the wall
the confinement-deconfinement transition occurs: at β<βc the
particles are blocked near the wall whereas at β>βc they gradually
pass into bulk. Here β is elasticity coefficient and .