Rotations of small, inertialess triaxial ellipsoids in isotropic turbulence
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DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.256zbMATH Open1383.76184arXiv1611.09901OpenAlexW2559856072WikidataQ98072070 ScholiaQ98072070MaRDI QIDQ5364779FDOQ5364779
Authors: Nimish Pujara, Evan A. Variano 
Publication date: 28 September 2017
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The statistics of rotational motion of small, inertialess triaxial ellipsoids are computed along Lagrangian trajectories extracted from direct numerical simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence. The particle angular velocity and its components along the three principal axes of the particle are considered, expanding on the results presented by citet{ChevillardMeneveau13}. The variance of the particle angular velocity, referred to as the particle enstrophy, is found to increase for particles with elongated shapes. This trend is explained by considering the contributions of vorticity and strain-rate to particle rotation. It is found that the majority of particle enstrophy is due to fluid vorticity. Strain-rate-induced rotations, which are sensitive to shape, are mostly cancelled by strain-vorticity interactions. The remainder of the strain-rate-induced rotations are responsible for weak variations in particle enstrophy. For particles of all shapes, the majority of the enstrophy is in rotations about the longest axis, which is due to alignment between the longest axis and fluid vorticity. The integral timescale for particle angular velocities about each axis reveals that rotations are most persistent about the longest axis, but that a full revolution is rare.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09901
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