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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Fluids Année : 2024

Interface-induced turbulence in viscous binary fluid mixtures

Dario Vincenzi
Rahul Pandit

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We demonstrate the existence of interface-induced turbulence, an emergent nonequilibrium statistically steady state (NESS) with spatiotemporal chaos, which is induced by interfacial fluctuations in low-Reynolds-number binary-fluid mixtures. We uncover the properties of this NESS via direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of cellular flows in the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes (CHNS) equations for binary fluids. We show that, in this NESS, the shell-averaged energy spectrum E(k) is spread over more than one decade in the wavenumber k and it exhibits a power-law region, indicative of turbulence but without a conventional inertial cascade. To characterize the statistical properties of this turbulence, we compute, in addition to E(k), the time series e(t) of the kinetic energy and its power spectrum, scale-by-scale energy transfer as a function of k, and the energy dissipation resulting from interfacial stresses. Furthermore, we analyze the mixing properties of this low-Reynolds-number turbulence via the mean-square displacement (MSD) of Lagrangian tracer particles, for which we demonstrate diffusive behavior at long times, a hallmark of strong mixing in turbulent flows.
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hal-04799148 , version 1 (22-11-2024)

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Nadia Bihari Padhan, Dario Vincenzi, Rahul Pandit. Interface-induced turbulence in viscous binary fluid mixtures. Physical Review Fluids, In press. ⟨hal-04799148⟩

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