Collaboration between Matt Turner and Richard Sear published in Physical Review Fluids

The paper “Critical scaling of the deposition efficiency of inertia-driven particle collisions with a cylinder in high Reynolds number air flow” authored by Matt Turner and Richard Sear (Soft Matter Group, Physics) has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids. The paper identifies the leading order asymptotic scaling for the deposition efficiency of particles above the critical Stokes number St_c for inviscid flow around a cylinder. The scaling law is found to be of the form exp(-(St-St_c)^(-1/2)) and shows that the number of particles deposited increases slowly for Stokes numbers just above this critical value, which has an effect on problems such as ice formation of aircraft wings. The author final copy of the paper can be foundĀ here. The image below shows Figure 1 from the paper.