Statistical models for the dynamics of heavy particles in turbulence

J Bec, K Gustavsson, B Mehlig - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
When very small particles are suspended in a fluid in motion, they tend to follow the flow.
How such tracer particles are mixed, transported, and dispersed by turbulent flow has been …

Statistical models for spatial patterns of heavy particles in turbulence

K Gustavsson, B Mehlig - Advances in Physics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The dynamics of heavy particles suspended in turbulent flows is of fundamental importance
for a wide range of questions in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, oceanography, and …

Anisotropic particles in turbulence

GA Voth, A Soldati - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Anisotropic particles are common in many industrial and natural turbulent flows. When these
particles are small and neutrally buoyant, they follow Lagrangian trajectories while …

Clustering of finite-size particles in turbulence

L Fiabane, R Zimmermann, R Volk, JF Pinton… - Physical Review E …, 2012 - APS
We investigate experimentally the spatial distributions of heavy and neutrally buoyant
particles of finite size in a fully turbulent flow. Because their Stokes number (ie, the ratio of …

Acceleration statistics of heavy particles in turbulence

J Bec, L Biferale, G Boffetta, A Celani… - Journal of Fluid …, 2006 - cambridge.org
We present the results of direct numerical simulations of heavy particle transport in
homogeneous, isotropic, fully developed turbulence, up to resolution decrease with St. Two …

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 …

Acceleration statistics of inertial particles in turbulent flow

NM Qureshi, U Arrieta, C Baudet, A Cartellier… - The European Physical …, 2008 - Springer
Turbulent transport of material inclusions plays an important role in many natural and
industrial situations. Being able to accurately model and predict the dynamics of dispersed …

Direct simulation of particle dispersion in a decaying isotropic turbulence

S Elghobashi, GC Truesdell - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1992 - cambridge.org
Dispersion of solid particles in decaying isotropic turbulence is studied numerically. The
three-dimensional, time-dependent velocity field of a homogeneous, non-stationary …

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

M Gibert, H Xu, E Bodenschatz - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - cambridge.org
We report experimental results on the dynamics of heavy particles of the size of the
Kolmogorov scale in a fully developed turbulent flow. The mixed Eulerian structure function …

Heavy particle concentration in turbulence at dissipative and inertial scales

J Bec, L Biferale, M Cencini, A Lanotte, S Musacchio… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
Spatial distributions of heavy particles suspended in an incompressible isotropic and
homogeneous turbulent flow are investigated by means of high resolution direct numerical …