TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical Simulations of Fiber Sedimentation in Navier-Stokes Flows
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 1
SP - 61
EP - 83
PY - 2009
DA - 2009/05
SN - 5
DO - http://doi.org/
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7724.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">We perform numerical simulations of the sedimentation of rigid fibers suspended in a viscous incompressible fluid at nonzero Reynolds numbers. The fiber
sedimentation system is modeled as a two-dimensional immersed boundary problem, which naturally accommodates the fluid-particle interactions and which allows
the simulation of a large number of suspending fibers. We study the dynamics of
sedimenting fibers under a variety of conditions, including differing fiber densities,
Reynolds numbers, domain boundary conditions, etc. Simulation results are compared
to experimental measurements and numerical results obtained in previous studies.</p>