TY - JOUR
T1 - The Dynamics of Suspended Rough Platelets in Shear Flows with Different Reynolds Numbers
AU - Kai Liu, Qingsong Zou, Zhipeng Xu & Zhijun Tan
JO - East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics
VL - 3
SP - 599
EP - 616
PY - 2022
DA - 2022/04
SN - 12
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/eajam.300621.131221 
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/eajam/20409.html
KW - Curvilinear immersion boundary method, platelets, Reynolds number, roughness.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">The behaviour of platelet flows in plasma and the change of the platelet
surfaces is studied by numerical simulations. In particular, the influence of the 2D
platelets surface roughness and Reynolds number on the rotation of platelets is considered. Reynolds numbers $Re$ vary from 0.4 to 50 and it is noted that if $Re = 50,$ the
2D platelets stop rotating after 90$^{\circ}$ turn. If $0.4 ≤ Re ≤ 20,$ the rotation period increases
along with the increase of Reynolds number. The maximum angular velocity, the minimum angular velocity and the rotation period of platelets depends on their roughness.
However, these characteristics are little affected by the roughness if the Reynolds number is close to 1. It is also worth noting that the torque of 3D platelets is greater than
the torque of 2D platelets.</p>