Where do small, weakly inertial particles go in a turbulent flow?

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 698, Issue , 2012, Pages 160-167

  Gibert, Mathieu ^a,d,e   Xu, Haitao ^a,d   Bodenschatz, Eberhard ^a,b,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^d International Collaboration for Turbulence Research   (Germany)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

homogeneous turbulence; isotropic turbulence; particle fluid flows

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY CONTROL;

DIFFERENCE VECTORS; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; INERTIAL PARTICLES; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PARTICLE/FLUID FLOWS; PREFERENTIAL SAMPLINGS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

FLUID FLOW; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84859995272     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.72     Document Type: Article

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