Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles in turbulence
Chaotic Dynamics
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles and tracers advected by homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flows are investigated by means of direct numerical simulations. For large values of the Stokes number, the main effect of inertia is to reduce the chaoticity with respect to fluid tracers. Conversely, for small inertia, a counter-intuitive increase of the first Lyapunov exponent is observed. The flow intermittency is found to induce a Reynolds number dependency for the statistics of the finite time Lyapunov exponents of tracers. Such intermittency effects are found to persist at increasing inertia.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0606024,
title = {Lyapunov exponents of heavy particles in turbulence},
author = {Jeremie Bec and Luca Biferale and Guido Boffetta and Massimo Cencini and Stefano Musacchio and Federico Toschi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0606024},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures