Does a particle swept by a turbulent liquid diffuse?

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2013.12.020MaRDI QIDQ1782623zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Moshe Schwartz, Gad Frenkel, S. F. Edwards

Publication date 20 September 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2844

zbMATH Keywords

passive scalarsuper diffusionturbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: Since the famous 1926 paper by Richardson, the relative diffusion of two particles in a turbulent liquid has attracted a lot of interest. The motion of a single particle on the other hand is usually considered not to be especially interesting. The widely accepted picture is that the velocity of the particle has short-range correlations in time, resulting in motion that is diffusive on time scales large compared to the correlation time. We find, however, that the correlation time is infinite and that the square displacement, F, is not linear in the traversed time, T, which would correspond to diffusion, but rather F is proportional to T^6/5. Namely, the motion is slightly super diffusive.

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