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Hermite-DG methods for pdf equations modelling particle transport and deposition in turbulent boundary layers

This paper presents a major advance in the computational study of particle transport in turbulent flow. Innovative models and equally novel numerical schemes enable, for the first time, the direct computation (to high-order accuracy) of particle-fluid phase-space distributions in boundary layers. The resolution and efficiency afforded by the approach allows detailed analysis of velocity correlations and distributions, and has identified distributional features previously unobserved. A database developed from the work and made available to other researchers formed an essential part of their independent study (work by Lad and Issa at Imperial College, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2011.10.002).