Multifractal clustering of passive tracers on a surface flow

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2005-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0510062v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to EPL

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2005-10503-6

We study the anomalous scaling of the mass density measure of Lagrangian tracers in a compressible flow realized on the free surface on top of a three dimensional flow. The full two dimensional probability distribution of local stretching rates is measured. The intermittency exponents which quantify the fluctuations of the mass measure of tracers at small scales are calculated from the large deviation form of stretching rate fluctuations. The results indicate the existence of a critical exponent $n_c \simeq 0.86$ above which exponents saturate, in agreement with what has been predicted by an analytically solvable model. Direct evaluation of the multi-fractal dimensions by reconstructing the coarse-grained particle density supports the results for low order moments.

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