Lagrangian tracers on a surface flow: the role of time correlations

Details Lagrangian tracers on a surface flow: the role of time correlations Lagrangian tracers on a surface flow: the role of time correlations

2004-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0408031v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

4 pages, 5 figures, to be published in PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.134501

Finite time correlations of the velocity in a surface flow are found to be important for the formation of clusters of Lagrangian tracers. The degree of clustering characterized by the Lyapunov spectrum of the flow is numerically shown to be in qualitative agreement with the predictions for the white-in-time compressible Kraichnan flow, but to deviate quantitatively. For intermediate values of compressibility the clustering is surprisingly weakened by time correlations.

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