Elastic turbulence in von Karman swirling flow between two disks

DOI10.1063/1.2732234zbMATH Open1146.76338arXivphysics/0609112OpenAlexW2087867205MaRDI QIDQ3532053FDOQ3532053

Authors: Teodor I. Burghelea, Enrico Segre, Victor Steinberg 

Publication date: 3 November 2008

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the role of elastic stress in the statistical properties of elastic turbulence, realized by the flow of a polymer solution between two disks. The dynamics of the elastic stress are analogous to those of a small scale fast dynamo in magnetohydrodynamics, and to those of the turbulent advection of a passive scalar in the Batchelor regime. Both systems are theoretically studied in literature, and this analogy is exploited to explain the statistical properties, the flow structure, and the scaling observed experimentally. Several features of elastic turbulence are confirmed experimentally and presented in this paper: (i) saturation of the rms of the vorticity and of velocity gradients in the bulk, leading to the saturation of the elastic stress; (ii) large rms of the velocity gradients in the boundary layer, linearly growth with Wi; (iii) skewed PDFs of the injected power, with exponential tails, which indicate intermittency; PDF of the acceleration exhibit well-pronounced exponential tails too; (iv) a new length scale, i.e the thickness of the boundary layer, as measured from the profile of the rms of the velocity gradient, is found to be relevant and much smaller than the vessel size; (v) the scaling of the structure functions of the vorticity, velocity gradients, and injected power is found to be the same as that of a passive scalar advected by an elastic turbulent velocity field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0609112

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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