Lagrangian statistics of particle pairs in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

L Biferale, G Boffetta, A Celani, BJ Devenish… - Physics of …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We present a detailed investigation of the particle pair separation process in homogeneous
isotropic turbulence. We use data from direct numerical simulations up to R λ∼ 280 …

Direct numerical simulation of two‐particle relative diffusion in isotropic turbulence

PK Yeung - Physics of Fluids, 1994 - pubs.aip.org
The relative diffusion of fluid particle pairs in statistically stationary isotropic turbulence is
studied by direct numerical simulation, at a Taylor‐scale Reynolds number of about 90. The …

Geometry and violent events in turbulent pair dispersion

R Bitane, H Homann, J Bec - Journal of Turbulence, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The statistics of Lagrangian pair dispersion in a homogeneous isotropic flow is investigated
by means of direct numerical simulations. The focus is on deviations from the Richardson …

Turbulent pair dispersion of inertial particles

J Bec, L Biferale, AS Lanotte, A Scagliarini… - Journal of Fluid …, 2010 - cambridge.org
The relative dispersion of pairs of inertial point particles in incompressible, homogeneous
and isotropic three-dimensional turbulence is studied by means of direct numerical …

Lagrangian statistics in fully developed turbulence

L Biferale, G Boffetta, A Celani, A Lanotte… - Journal of …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The statistics of Lagrangian particles transported by a three-dimensional fully developed
turbulent flow is investigated by means of high-resolution direct numerical simulations. The …

Pair dispersion in turbulence: the subdominant role of scaling

MP Rast, JF Pinton - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
The mixing properties of turbulent flows are, at first order, related to the dynamics of
separation of particle pairs. Scaling laws for the evolution in time of the mean distance …

Relative dispersion in isotropic turbulence. Part 1. Direct numerical simulations and Reynolds-number dependence

PK YEUNG, MS Borgas - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004 - cambridge.org
The relative dispersion of fluid particle pairs in isotropic turbulence is studied using direct
numerical simulation, in greater detail and covering a wider Reynolds number range than …

Fundamentals of pair diffusion in kinematic simulations of turbulence

DR Osborne, JC Vassilicos, K Sung, JD Haigh - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2006 - APS
We demonstrate that kinematic simulation (KS) of three-dimensional homogeneous
turbulence produces fluid element pair statistics in agreement with the predictions of L F …

Intermittency in the relative separations of tracers and of heavy particles in turbulent flows

L Biferale, AS Lanotte, R Scatamacchia… - Journal of fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Results from direct numerical simulations (DNS) of particle relative dispersion in three-
dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence at Reynolds number. The right tail of …

Pair dispersion in turbulence

G Boffetta, A Celani - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2000 - Elsevier
We study the statistics of pair dispersion in two-dimensional turbulence. Direct numerical
simulations show that the probability distribution function (pdf) of pair separations is in …