Measurements of pollen grain dispersal in still air and stationary, near homogeneous, isotropic turbulence

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• 作者：Lilach  ; Sabban ; René ;   ; van Hout  ; ;   ; ^{rene@technion.ac.il}
• 关键词：Bio-aerosol dispersion ; Homogeneous ; isotropic air turbulence ; High-speed inline digital holography ; Particle turbulence interaction ; Still air settling ; TKE dissipation rate
• 刊名：Journal of Aerosol Science
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：December 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：42
• 期：12
• 页码：867-882
• 全文大小：1252 K

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The dispersal of ragweed, pine and corn pollen as well as polystyrene spheres in still air and stationary, near homogeneous, isotropic turbulence (HIT) was investigated using high-speed, digital inline holographic cinematography enabling Lagrangian tracking of the particles. Mean still air settling velocities were similar as reported literature values. Small discrepancies were most likely related to species/size differences and water content of the grains. Near-HIT was generated by loudspeakers mounted on the corners of a 40 cm³ chamber and the turbulent flow field at the center of the chamber was validated using stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Results showed near homogeneity and near isotropy with mean velocities 5?0 times smaller than the corresponding rms values of velocity fluctuations. The turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate was determined from the PIV data sets and used to calculate the Kolmogorov scales and Taylor microscales. Experiments were carried out for two different loudspeaker amplifications corresponding to Taylor microscale Reynolds numbers, R_¦Ë=144 and 162, respectively. The mean settling velocity in turbulent conditions was in all cases higher than the corresponding still air value, the difference becoming smaller as particle Stokes numbers increased. For the present conditions, the still air particle settling velocity was lower than the rms values of air fluctuating velocities. As a result, dispersion was dominated by inertia and for a given R_¦Ë, particle fluctuating velocity autocorrelations fell more rapidly as the particle Stokes number decreased; corresponding particle diffusion coefficients also decreased. Transverse particle diffusion coefficients were lower than those in the direction of gravity in agreement with the continuity effect. Under the present range of experimental parameters, results showed that inertial particles (0.6<St<11) in highly turbulent conditions disperse more effectively than the air.