Elliptical Tracers in Two-dimensional, Homogeneous, Isotropic Fluid Turbulence: the Statistics of Alignment, Rotation, and Nematic Order - Archive ouverte HAL
Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2014

Elliptical Tracers in Two-dimensional, Homogeneous, Isotropic Fluid Turbulence: the Statistics of Alignment, Rotation, and Nematic Order

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We study the statistical properties of orientation and rotation dynamics of elliptical tracer particles in two-dimensional, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence by direct numerical simulations. We consider both the cases in which the turbulent flow is generated by forcing at large and intermediate length scales. We show that the two cases are qualitatively different. For large-scale forcing, the spatial distribution of particle orientations forms large-scale structures, which are absent for intermediate-scale forcing. The alignment with the local directions of the flow is much weaker in the latter case than in the former. For intermediate-scale forcing, the statistics of rotation rates depends weakly on the Reynolds number and on the aspect ratio of particles. In contrast with what is observed in three-dimensional turbulence, in two dimensions the mean-square rotation rate decreases as the aspect ratio increases.

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hal-00963587 , version 1 (21-03-2014)

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Anupam Gupta, Dario Vincenzi, Rahul Pandit. Elliptical Tracers in Two-dimensional, Homogeneous, Isotropic Fluid Turbulence: the Statistics of Alignment, Rotation, and Nematic Order. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2014, 89, pp.021001(R). ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.89.021001⟩. ⟨hal-00963587⟩
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