Bailout Embeddings and Neutrally Buoyant Particles in Three-Dimensional Flows
Chaotic Dynamics
2012-07-24 v2 Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
We use the bailout embeddings of three-dimensional volume-preserving maps to study qualitatively the dy- namics of small spherical neutrally buoyant impurities suspended in a time-periodic incompressible fluid flow. The accumulation of impurities in tubular vortical structures, the detachment of particles from fluid trajectories near hyperbolic invariant lines, and the formation of nontrivial three-dimensional structures in the distribution of particles are predicted.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0204004,
title = {Bailout Embeddings and Neutrally Buoyant Particles in Three-Dimensional Flows},
author = {J. H. E. Cartwright and M. O. Magnasco and O. Piro and I. tuval},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0204004},
year = {2012}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures