Clustering of vector nulls in homogeneous isotropic turbulence
We analyze the vector nulls of velocity, Lagrangian acceleration, and vorticity, coming from direct numerical simulations of forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence at Reλ∈O([40-600]). We show that the clustering of velocity nulls is much stronger than those of acceleration and vorticity nulls. Thes...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/181443 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/181443 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | TURBULENCE MULTIPHASE FLOWS PARTICLES https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | We analyze the vector nulls of velocity, Lagrangian acceleration, and vorticity, coming from direct numerical simulations of forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence at Reλ∈O([40-600]). We show that the clustering of velocity nulls is much stronger than those of acceleration and vorticity nulls. These acceleration and vorticity nulls, however, are denser than the velocity nulls. We study the scaling of clusters of these null points with Reλ and with characteristic turbulence lengthscales. We also analyze datasets of point inertial particles with Stokes numbers St=0.5, 3, and 6, at Reλ=240. Inertial particles display preferential concentration with a degree of clustering that resembles some properties of the clustering of the Lagrangian acceleration nulls, in agreement with the proposed sweep-stick mechanism of clustering formation. |
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