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Where do small, weakly inertial particles go in a turbulent flow?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2012

Mathieu Gibert ,
Haitao Xu  and
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Mathieu Gibert
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization (MPIDS), 37077 Göttingen, Germany International Collaboration for Turbulence Research
Haitao Xu
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization (MPIDS), 37077 Göttingen, Germany International Collaboration for Turbulence Research
Eberhard Bodenschatz*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization (MPIDS), 37077 Göttingen, Germany Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA International Collaboration for Turbulence Research
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†Email address for correspondence: eberhard.bodenschatz@ds.mpg.de
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Abstract

We report experimental results on the dynamics of heavy particles of the size of the Kolmogorov scale in a fully developed turbulent flow. The mixed Eulerian structure function of two-particle velocity and acceleration difference vectors was observed to increase significantly with particle inertia for identical flow conditions. We show that this increase is related to a preferential alignment between these dynamical quantities. With increasing particle density the probability for those two vectors to be collinear was observed to grow. We show that these results are consistent with the preferential sampling of strain-dominated regions by inertial particles.

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Turbulent Flows: Homogeneous turbulence Turbulent Flows: Isotropic turbulence
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 698 , 10 May 2012 , pp. 160 - 167
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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Present address: Institut NÉEL CNRS/UJF (Grenoble France).

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