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A temporal complex network-based approach is proposed as a novel formulation to investigate turbulent mixing from a Lagrangian viewpoint. By exploiting a spatial proximity criterion, the dynamics of a set of fluid particles is geometrized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Giovanni Iacobello , Stefania Scarsoglio , J. G. M. Kuerten , Luca Ridolfi

Cellular suspensions such as dense bacterial flows exhibit a turbulence-like phase under certain conditions. We study this phenomenon of "active turbulence" statistically by using numerical tools. Following Wensink et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-15 Martin James , Michael Wilczek

This paper reviews some of the principal uses, over almost seven decades, of correlations, in both Eulerian and Lagrangian frames of reference, of properties of turbulent flows at variable spatial locations and variable time instants.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-07 James M. Wallace

We present a collection of eight data sets, from state-of-the-art experiments and numerical simulations on turbulent velocity statistics along particle trajectories obtained in different flows with Reynolds numbers in the range $R_\lambda…

The Lagrangian velocity statistics of dissipative drift-wave turbulence are investigated. For large values of the adiabaticity (or small collisionality), the probability density function of the Lagrangian acceleration shows exponential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-09-29 Benjamin Kadoch , Wouter Bos , Kai Schneider

We present a numerical investigation of two-dimensional decaying turbulence in the Lagrangian framework. Focusing on single particle statistics, we investigate Lagrangian trajectories in a freely evolving turbulent velocity field. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Wilczek , Oliver Kamps , Rudolf Friedrich

Turbulent flows are notoriously difficult to describe and understand based on first principles. One reason is that turbulence contains highly intermittent bursts of vorticity and strain-rate with highly non-Gaussian statistics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Meneveau , Y. Li

The universality of intermittency in hydrodynamic turbulence is considered based on a recent model for the velocity gradient tensor evolution. Three possible versions of the model are investigated differing in the assumed correlation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Chevillard , Charles Meneveau

Homogeneous and isotropic turbulent fields obtained from two DNS databases (with $\mbox{Re}_\lambda$ equal to 150 and 418) were seeded with point particles that moved with the local fluid velocity to obtain Lagrangian pressure histories.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 Mehedi Bappy , Pablo M. Carrica , Gustavo C. Buscaglia

A detailed comparison between data from experimental measurements and numerical simulations of Lagrangian velocity structure functions in turbulence is presented. By integrating information from experiments and numerics, a quantitative…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-06 L. Biferale , E. Bodenschatz , M. Cencini , A. S. Lanotte , N. T. Ouellette , F. Toschi , H. Xu

We report on simulations of two-dimensional turbulence in the inverse energy cascade regime. Focusing on the statistics of Lagrangian tracer particles, scaling behavior of the probability density functions of velocity fluctuations is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oliver Kamps , Rudolf Friedrich

Modeling statistical properties of motion of a Lagrangian particle advected by a high-Reynolds-number flow is of much practical interest and complement traditional studies of turbulence made in Eulerian framework. The strong and nonlocal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Aringazin , M. I. Mazhitov

The angle between subsequent particle displacement increments is evaluated as a function of the timelag in isotropic turbulence. It is shown that the evolution of this angle contains two well-defined power-laws, reflecting the multi-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-19 Wouter Bos , Benjamin Kadoch , Kai Schneider

The statistical properties of velocity and acceleration fields along the trajectories of fluid particles transported by a fully developed turbulent flow are investigated by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations. We present…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Biferale , G. Boffetta , A. Celani , B. J. Devenish , A. Lanotte , F. Toschi

We consider the dynamics of small tracer particles in turbulent quantum liquids. The complicated interaction processes of vortex filaments, the quantum constraints on vorticity and the varying influence of both the superfluid and the normal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-27 Christian Beck , Shihan Miah

The local statistical and geometric structure of three-dimensional turbulent flow can be described by properties of the velocity gradient tensor. A stochastic model is developed for the Lagrangian time evolution of this tensor, in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chevillard , C. Meneveau

We introduce a time-dependent Eulerian-Lagrangian length-scale and an inverse locality hypothesis which explain scalings of second order one-particle Lagrangian structure functions observed in Kinematic Simulations (KS) of homogeneous…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. I. Khan J. C. Vassilicos

A Lagrangian experimental study of an axisymmetric turbulent water jet is performed to investigate the highly anisotropic and inhomogeneous flow field. The measurements were conducted within a Lagrangian exploration module, an icosahedron…

Lagrangian turbulence lies at the core of numerous applied and fundamental problems related to the physics of dispersion and mixing in engineering, bio-fluids, atmosphere, oceans, and astrophysics. Despite exceptional theoretical,…

Lagrangian stochastic models are widely used to predict and analyze turbulent dispersion in complex environments, such as in various terrestrial and marine canopy flows. However, due to a lack of empirical data, it is still not understood…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-09 Ron Shnapp , Yardena Bohbot-Raviv , Alex Liberzon , Eyal Fattal