Some relations between Lagrangian models and synthetic random velocity fields

Details Some relations between Lagrangian models and synthetic random velocity fields Some relations between Lagrangian models and synthetic random velocity fields

2003-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0307049v3

Phys. Rev. E Vol. 74 Page 046305 (2004)

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

54 pages, 8 eps figures included; contains additional material on SO(3) and on turbulent channel flows. Few typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.046305

We propose an alternative interpretation of Markovian transport models based on the well-mixedness condition, in terms of the properties of a random velocity field with second order structure functions scaling linearly in the space time increments. This interpretation allows direct association of the drift and noise terms entering the model, with the geometry of the turbulent fluctuations. In particular, the well known non-uniqueness problem in the well-mixedness approach is solved in terms of the antisymmetric part of the velocity correlations; its relation with the presence of non-zero mean helicity and other geometrical properties of the flow is elucidated. The well-mixedness condition appears to be a special case of the relation between conditional velocity increments of the random field and the one-point Eulerian velocity distribution, allowing generalization of the approach to the transport of non-tracer quantities. Application to solid particle transport leads to a model satisfying, in the homogeneous isotropic turbulence case, all the conditions on the behaviour of the correlation times for the fluid velocity sampled by the particles. In particular, correlation times in the gravity and in the inertia dominated case, respectively, longer and shorter than in the passive tracer case; in the gravity dominated case, correlation times longer for velocity components along gravity, than for the perpendicular ones. The model produces, in channel flow geometry, particle deposition rates in agreement with experiments.

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