Where do small, weakly inertial particles go in a turbulent flow?

Details Where do small, weakly inertial particles go in a turbulent flow? Where do small, weakly inertial particles go in a turbulent flow?

2010-02-19

arxiv.org/abs/1002.3755v4

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication JFM (fast-track)

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We report experimental results on the dynamics of heavy particles of the size of the Kolmogorov-scale in a fully developed turbulent flow. The mixed Eulerian structure function of two-particle velocity and acceleration difference vectors <\delta v\cdot\delta a_p> was observed to increase significantly with particle inertia for identical flow conditions. We show that this increase is related to a preferential alignment between these dynamical quantities. With increasing particle density the probability for those two vectors to be collinear was observed to grow. We show that these results are consistent with the preferential sampling of strain-dominated regions by inertial particles.

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