Time evolution of a fractal distribution: particle concentrations in free-surface turbulence

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2009.11.005zbMATH Open1193.37121arXiv1010.5463OpenAlexW2129847121MaRDI QIDQ989306FDOQ989306

Authors: Jason Larkin, Walter Goldburg, M. M. Bandi 

Publication date: 19 August 2010

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Steady-state turbulence is generated in a tank of water and the trajectories of particles forming a compressible system on the surface are tracked in time. The initial uniformly distributed floating particles coagulate and form a fractal distribution, a rare manifestation of a fractal object observable in real-space. The surface pattern reaches a steady state in approximately 1 s. Measurements are made of the fractal dimensions $D_q(t)$ ($q=1$ to $6$) of the floating particles starting with the uniform distribution $D_q(0)$ = 2 for Taylor Microscale Reynolds number $R{e}_{lambda}simeq160$. Focus is on the the time-evolution of the correlation dimension $D_2(t)$ as the steady state is approached. This steady state is reached in several large eddy turnover times and does so at an exponential rate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5463

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulent flowchaos in fluid dynamicsdynamical system approaches

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40)

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