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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

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