Clustering of heavy particles in the inertial range of turbulence

Details Clustering of heavy particles in the inertial range of turbulence Clustering of heavy particles in the inertial range of turbulence

2006-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0606038v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

4 pages, 4 figures

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A statistical description of heavy particles suspended in incompressible rough self-similar flows is developed. It is shown that, differently from smooth flows, particles do not form fractal clusters. They rather distribute inhomogeneously with a statistics that only depends on a local Stokes number, given by the ratio between the particles' response time and the turnover time associated to the observation scale. Particle clustering is reduced when increasing the fluid roughness. Heuristic arguments supported by numerics are used to explain this effect in terms of the algebraic tails of the probability density function of the velocity difference between two particles. These tails are a signature of events during which particle couples approach each other very closely.

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