A Subgrid Particle Averaged Reynolds Stress Equivalent (SPARSE) model for Eulerian-Lagrangian particle-laden-flow simulation*

The direct Eulerian-Lagrangian simulation of turbulent, particle-laden flow through the Navier-Stokes equations combined with the tracing of a large number of particles is computationally expensive for large-scale problems. To reduce computational cost, small scale turbulence is often modeled and groups of physical particles are amalgamated into clouds, whose average location is traced. Typical Lagrangian models (such as Particle-Source-In-Cell and Cloud-In-Cell models) assume that the average motion of the cloud is governed by only the average interphase momentum difference between the carrier and disperse phases, neglecting subscale perturbations. We present a new Lagrangian particle model for the tracing of clouds of particles in particle-laden flows. By expanding the particle drag correction factor to include fluctuating terms and Reynolds averaging the full particle momentum equation, the so-called SPARSE model accounts for the effect of subgrid turbulence and particle perturbations. A priori results demonstrate the efficacy of the SPARSE model in 1D velocity fields and 3D decaying isotropic turbulence computations.~