A non-inertial model for particle aggregation under turbulence
Abstract
We consider an abstract non-inertial model of aggregation under the influence of a Gaussian white noise with prescribed space-covariance, and prove a formula for the mean collision rate , per unit of time and volume. Specializing the abstract theory to a non-inertial model obtained by an inertial one, with physical constants, in the limit of infinitesimal relaxation time of the particles, and the white noise obtained as an approximation of a Gaussian noise with correlation time , up to approximations the formula reads where is the particle number per unit of volume and is the square-average of the increment of random velocity field between points at distance , the particle radius. If we choose the Kolmogorov time scale and we assume that is in the dissipative range where , we get Saffman-Turner formula for the collision rate .
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@article{arxiv.2404.05233,
title = {A non-inertial model for particle aggregation under turbulence},
author = {Franco Flandoli and Ruojun Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.05233},
year = {2025}
}
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45 pages