Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles in turbulence

Details Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles in turbulence Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles in turbulence

2006-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0606024v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2349587

Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles and tracers advected by homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flows are investigated by means of direct numerical simulations. For large values of the Stokes number, the main effect of inertia is to reduce the chaoticity with respect to fluid tracers. Conversely, for small inertia, a counter-intuitive increase of the first Lyapunov exponent is observed. The flow intermittency is found to induce a Reynolds number dependency for the statistics of the finite time Lyapunov exponents of tracers. Such intermittency effects are found to persist at increasing inertia.

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