Two-dimensional turbulence of dilute polymer solutions

Details Two-dimensional turbulence of dilute polymer solutions Two-dimensional turbulence of dilute polymer solutions

2003-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0303008v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.034501

We investigate theoretically and numerically the effect of polymer additives on two-dimensional turbulence by means of a viscoelastic model. We provide compelling evidence that at vanishingly small concentrations, such that the polymers are passively transported, the probability distribution of polymer elongation has a power law tail: its slope is related to the statistics of finite-time Lyapunov exponents of the flow, in quantitative agreement with theoretical predictions. We show that at finite concentrations and sufficiently large elasticity the polymers react on the flow with manifold consequences: velocity fluctuations are drastically depleted, as observed in soap film experiments; the velocity statistics becomes strongly intermittent; the distribution of finite-time Lyapunov exponents shifts to lower values, signalling the reduction of Lagrangian chaos.

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