Renormalized transport of inertial particles in surface flows

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/27/275502zbMATH Open1167.76040arXiv0810.4949OpenAlexW3103332329MaRDI QIDQ5192080FDOQ5192080

Authors: Marco Martins Afonso, Andrea Mazzino, Piero Olla 

Publication date: 4 August 2009

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

Abstract: Surface transport of inertial particles is investigated by means of the perturbative approach, introduced by Maxey (J. Fluid Mech. 174, 441 (1987)), which is valid in the case the deflections induced on the particle trajectories by the fluid flow can be considered small. We consider a class of compressible random velocity fields, in which the effect of recirculations is modelled by an oscillatory component in the Eulerian time correlation profile. The main issue we address here is whether fluid velocity fluctuations, in particular the effect of recirculation, may produce nontrivial corrections to the streaming particle velocity. Our result is that a small (large) degree of recirculation is associated with a decrease (increase) of streaming with respect to a quiescent fluid. The presence of this effect is confirmed numerically, away from the perturbative limit. Our approach also allows us to calculate the explicit expression for the eddy diffusivity, and to compare the efficiency of diffusive and ballistic transport.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4949

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zbMATH Keywords

recirculationeddy diffusivitycompressible random velocity fieldsperturbative limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Diffusion (76R50)

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