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Article Dans Une Revue New Journal of Physics Année : 2017

Phoresis in turbulent flows

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Phoresis, the drift of particles induced by scalar gradients in a flow, can result in an effective compressibility, bringing together or repelling particles from each other. Here, we ask whether this effect can affect the transport of particles in a turbulent flow. To this end, we study how the dispersion of a cloud of phoretic particles is modified when injected in the flow, together with a blob of scalar, whose effect is to transiently bring particles together, or push them away from the center of the blob. The resulting phoretic effect can be quantified by a single dimensionless number. Phenomenological considerations lead to simple predictions for the mean separation between particles, which are consistent with results of direct numerical simulations. Using the numerical results presented here, as well as those from previous studies, we discuss quantitatively the experimental consequences of this work and the possible impact of such phoretic mechanisms in natural systems.
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hal-02633847 , version 1 (27-05-2020)

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Vishwanath Shukla, Romain Volk, Mickaël Bourgoin, Alain Pumir. Phoresis in turbulent flows. New Journal of Physics, 2017, 19, ⟨10.1088/1367-2630/aa99bd⟩. ⟨hal-02633847⟩
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