Power-law distributions of particle concentration in free-surface flows

Details Power-law distributions of particle concentration in free-surface flows Power-law distributions of particle concentration in free-surface flows

2009-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/0911.1784v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 3 figures and 1 table

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Particles floating on the surface of a turbulent incompressible fluid accumulate along string-like structures, while leaving large regions of the flow domain empty. This is reflected experimentally by a very peaked probability distribution function of $c_r$, the coarse-grained particle concentration at scale $r$, around $c_r = 0$, with a power-law decay over two decades of $c_r$, $\Pi (c_r) \propto c_r^{-\beta_r}$. The positive exponent $\beta_r$ decreases with scale in the inertial range, and stays approximately constant in the dissipative range, thus indicating a qualitative difference between the dissipative and the inertial ranges of scales, also visible in the first moment of $c_r$.

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