Polymers in turbulence: stretching statistics and the role of extreme strain rate fluctuations
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Abstract: Polymers in a turbulent flow are stretched out by the fluctuating velocity gradient; the stationary probability distribution function (p.d.f.) of extensions has a power-law tail with an exponent that increases with the Weissenberg number , a nondimensional measure of polymer elasticity. This study addresses the following questions: (i) What is the role of the non-Gaussian statistics of the turbulent velocity gradient on polymer stretching? (ii) How does the p.d.f. of evolve to its asymptotic stationary form? Our analysis is based on simulations of the dynamics of finitely-extensible bead-spring dumbbells and chains, in the extremely dilute limit, that are transported in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow, as well as in a Gaussian random flow. First, we recall the large deviations theory of polymer stretching, and illustrate its application. Then, we compare polymer stretching in turbulent and Gaussian random flows and show that while extreme-valued strain rates aid in stretching small- stiff polymers, they are unimportant for high- polymers, which instead are stretched by the cumulative action of moderate strain-rates. This result is supported by an analysis of the persistence time of polymers in stretched states. Next, beginning from a distribution of coiled polymers, we find that the p.d.f. of has the form of an evolving power-law, for low to moderate , though this is not the case at high . In either case, the p.d.f. relaxes to its stationary form exponentially. The corresponding time scales of equilibration, measured as a function of , point to a critical slowing down at the coil-stretch transition. Importantly, these results show no qualitative change when chains in a turbulent flow are replaced by dumbbells in a Gaussian flow, thereby supporting the use of the latter for reduced-order modelling.
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