Nonlinear Sciences – Chaotic Dynamics
Scientific paper
2011-07-28
Phys. Rev. E 82, 056304 (2010)
Nonlinear Sciences
Chaotic Dynamics
5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.82.056304
Experimental results for passive tracer dispersion in the turbulent surface layer under stable conditions are presented. In this case, the dispersion of tracer particles is determined by the interplay of three mechanisms: relative dispersion (celebrated Richardson's mechanism), shear dispersion (particle separation due to variation of the mean velocity field) and specific surface-layer dispersion (induced by the gradient of the energy dissipation rate in the turbulent surface layer). The latter mechanism results in the rather slow (ballistic) law for the mean squared particle separation. Based on a simplified Langevin equation for particle separation we found that the ballistic regime always dominates at large times. This conclusion is supported by our extensive atmospheric observations. Exit-time statistics are derived from the experimental dataset and show a reasonable match with the simple dimensional asymptotes for different mechanisms of tracer dispersion, as well as predictions of the multifractal model and experimental data from other sources.
DuBois Timothy C.
Jamriska Milan
Skvortsov Alex
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