Clustering of inertial particles in turbulent flows
chao-dyn
2007-05-23 v2 Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
We consider inertial particles suspended in an incompressible turbulent flow. Due to inertia of particles, their velocity field acquires small compressible component. Its presence leads to a new qualitative effect --- possibility of clustering. We show that this effect is significant for heavy particles, leading to strong fluctuations of the concentration.
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@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9912027,
title = {Clustering of inertial particles in turbulent flows},
author = {E. Balkovsky and G. Falkovich and A. Fouxon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9912027},
year = {2007}
}
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