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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2009.11.005MaRDI QIDQ989306zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 19 August 2010

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

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)

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.

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