Colliding Particles in Highly Turbulent Flows
Chaotic Dynamics
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
We discuss relative velocities and the collision rate of small particles suspended in a highly turbulent fluid. In the limit where the viscous damping is very weak, we estimate the relative velocities using the Kolmogorov cascade principle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0612008,
title = {Colliding Particles in Highly Turbulent Flows},
author = {Bernhard Mehlig and Ville Uski and Michael Wilkinson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0612008},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, no figures, v2 contains additional results