Renormalized transport of inertial particles in surface flows

Details Renormalized transport of inertial particles in surface flows Renormalized transport of inertial particles in surface flows

2008-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4949v1

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 275502

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

18 pages, 13 figures, submitted to JFM

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/42/27/275502

Surface transport of inertial particles is investigated by means of the perturbative approach, introduced by Maxey (J. Fluid Mech. 174, 441 (1987)), which is valid in the case the deflections induced on the particle trajectories by the fluid flow can be considered small. We consider a class of compressible random velocity fields, in which the effect of recirculations is modelled by an oscillatory component in the Eulerian time correlation profile. The main issue we address here is whether fluid velocity fluctuations, in particular the effect of recirculation, may produce nontrivial corrections to the streaming particle velocity. Our result is that a small (large) degree of recirculation is associated with a decrease (increase) of streaming with respect to a quiescent fluid. The presence of this effect is confirmed numerically, away from the perturbative limit. Our approach also allows us to calculate the explicit expression for the eddy diffusivity, and to compare the efficiency of diffusive and ballistic transport.

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