Inertial effects on two-particle relative dispersion in turbulent flows

Details Inertial effects on two-particle relative dispersion in turbulent flows Inertial effects on two-particle relative dispersion in turbulent flows

2010-02-09

arxiv.org/abs/1002.1805v2

EPL, 90 (2010) 64005

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

6 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, epl2.cls, submitted to EPL

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/90/64005

We report experimental results on the relative motion of pairs of solid spheric particles with initial separations in the inertial range of fully developed turbulence in water. The particle densities were in the range of $1 \lessapprox \rho_{p}/\rho_{f} \lessapprox 8$, \textit{i.e.}, from neutrally buoyant to highly inertial; and their sizes were of the Kolmogorov scale. For all particles, we observed a Batchelor like regime, in which particles separated ballistically. Similar to the Batchelor regime for tracers, this regime was observed in the early stages of the relative separation for times $t \lessapprox 0.1 t_0$ with $t_0$ determined by the turbulence energy dissipation rate and the initial separation between particle pairs. In this time interval heavier particles separated faster than fluid tracers. The second order Eulerian velocity structure functions was found to increase with density. In other words, both observations show that the relative velocity between inertial particles was larger than that between tracers. Based on the widely used, simplified equation of motion for inertial point-particles, we derived a model that shows an increase in relative velocity between inertial particles. In its scale dependence, however, it disagrees quantitatively with the experimental results. This we attribute to the preferential sampling of the flow field by inertial particles, which is not captured by the model.

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