Unmixing in random flows

DOI10.1063/1.2766740MaRDI QIDQ5303608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 18 March 2010

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0612061

zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov methodsNavier-Stokes equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Abstract: We consider particles suspended in a randomly stirred or turbulent fluid. When effects of the inertia of the particles are significant, an initially uniform scatter of particles can cluster together. We analyse this 'unmixing' effect by calculating the Lyapunov exponents for dense particles suspended in such a random three-dimensional flow, concentrating on the limit where the viscous damping rate is small compared to the inverse correlation time of the random flow (that is, the regime of large Stokes number). In this limit Lyapunov exponents are obtained as a power series in a parameter which is a dimensionless measure of the inertia. We report results for the first seven orders. The perturbation series is divergent, but we obtain accurate results from a Pade-Borel summation. We deduce that particles can cluster onto a fractal set and show that its dimension is in satisfactory agreement with previously reported in simulations of turbulent Navier-Stokes flows. We also investigate the rate of formation of caustics in the particle flow.

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