Lyapunov exponent for small particles in smooth one-dimensional flows

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/4/045502zbMATH Open1453.76220arXiv0911.2917OpenAlexW2021564649MaRDI QIDQ3074699FDOQ3074699

Authors: Michael Wilkinson 

Publication date: 10 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper discusses the Lyapunov exponent for small particles in a spatially and temporally smooth flow in one dimension. Using a plausible model for the statistics of the velocity gradient in the vicinity of a particle, the Lyapunov exponent is obtained as a series expansion in the Stokes number, St, which is a dimensionless measure of the importance of inertial effects. The approach described here can be extended to calculations of the Lyapunov exponents and of the correlation dimension for inertial particles in higher dimensions. It is also shown that there is correction to this theory which arises because the particles do not sample the velocity field ergodically. Using this non-ergodic correction, it is found that (contrary to expectations) the first order term in the expansion does not vanish.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2917

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Suspensions (76T20)

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