Evidence of preferential sweeping during snow settling in atmospheric turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.816zbMATH Open1500.76098arXiv2109.04662OpenAlexW3204199968MaRDI QIDQ5157345FDOQ5157345

Authors: Jiaqi Li, Aliza Abraham, M. Guala, Jiarong Hong 

Publication date: 13 October 2021

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a field study of snow settling dynamics based on simultaneous measurements of the atmospheric flow field and snow particle trajectories. Specifically, a super-large-scale particle image velocimetry (SLPIV) system using natural snow particles as tracers is deployed to quantify the velocity field and identify vortex structures in a 22 m $imes$ 39 m field of view centered 18 m above the ground. Simultaneously, we track individual snow particles in a 3 m $imes$ 5 m sample area within the SLPIV using particle tracking velocimetry (PTV). The results reveal the direct linkage among vortex structures in atmospheric turbulence, the spatial distribution of snow particle concentration, and their settling dynamics. In particular, with snow turbulence interaction at near-critical Stokes number, the settling velocity enhancement of snow particles is multifold, and larger than what has been observed in previous field studies. SLPIV measurements show higher concentration of snow particles preferentially located on the downward side of the vortices identified in the atmospheric flow field. PTV, performed on high resolution images around the reconstructed vortices, confirms the latter trend and provides statistical evidence of the acceleration of snow particles, as they move toward the downward side of vortices. Overall, the simultaneous multi-scale particle imaging presented here enables us to directly quantify the salient features of preferential sweeping, supporting it as an underlying mechanism of snow settling enhancement in the atmospheric surface layer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04662

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zbMATH Keywords

vortex structureturbulent boundary layerexperimental verificationatmospheric particle-fluid flowsnow particle concentration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Dusty-gas two-phase flows (76T15) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40)

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