149 research outputs found
Finite-time collapse and soliton-like states in the dynamics of dissipative gases
A study of the gas dynamics of a dilute collection of the inelastically
colliding hard spheres is presented. When diffusive processes are neglected the
gas density blows up in a finite time. The blowup is the mathematical
expression for one of the possible mechanisms for cluster formation in
dissipative gases. The way diffusive processes smoothen the singularity has
been studied. Exact localized soliton-type solutions of the gas dynamics when
heat diffusion balances non-linear cooling are obtained. The presented results
generalize previous findings for planar flows.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
The impact of hydrodynamic interactions on the preferential concentration of inertial particles in turbulence
We consider a dilute gas of inertial particles transported by the turbulent
flow. Due to inertia the particles concentrate preferentially outside vortices.
The pair-correlation function of the particles' concentration is known to obey
at small separations a power-law with a negative exponent, if the hydrodynamic
interactions between the particles are neglected. The divergence at zero
separation is the signature of the random attractor asymptoted by the
particles' trajectories at large times. However the hydrodynamic interactions
produce a repulsion between the particles that is non-negligible at small
separations. We introduce equations governing the repulsion and show it
smoothens the singular attractor near the particles where the pair correlation
function saturates. The effect is most essential at the Stokes number of order
one, where the correlations decrease by a factor of a few.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Convective stability of turbulent Boussinesq flow in the dissipative range and flow around small particles
We consider arbitrary, possibly turbulent, Boussinesq flow which is smooth
below a dissipative scale . It is demonstrated that the stability of the
flow with respect to growth of fluctuations with scale smaller than leads
to a non-trivial constraint. That involves the dimensionless strength of
fluctuations of the gradients of the scalar in the direction of gravity and the
Rayleigh scale depending on the Rayleigh number , the Nusselt number
and . The constraint implies that the stratified fluid at rest, which
is linearly stable, develops instability in the limit of large . This
limits observability of solution for the flow around small swimmer in quiescent
stratified fluid that has closed streamlines at scale [A. M. Ardekani and
R. Stocker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 084502 (2010)]. Correspondingly to study the
flow at scale one has to take turbulence into account. We demonstrate that
the resulting turbulent flow around small particles or swimmers can be
described by scalar integro-differential advection-diffusion equation.
Describing the solutions we show that closed streamlines persist with finite
probability. Our results seem to be the necessary basis in understanding flows
around small swimmers.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1301.635
Solvable continuous time random walk model of the motion of tracer particles through porous media
We consider the continuous time random walk model (CTRW) of tracer's motion
in porous medium flows based on the experimentally determined distributions of
pore velocity and pore size reported in Holzner et al. Phys. Rev. E 92, 013015
(2015). The particle's passing through one channel is modelled as one step of
the walk. The step's (channel) length is random and the walker's velocity at
consecutive steps of the walk is conserved with finite probability mimicking
that at the turning point there could be no abrupt change of velocity. We
provide the Laplace transform of the characteristic function of the walker's
position and reductions for different cases of independence of the CTRW's
step's duration \tau, length l and velocity v. We solve our model with
independent l and v. The model incorporates different forms of the tail of the
probability density of small velocities that vary with the model parameter
\alpha. Depending on that parameter all types of anomalous diffusion can hold,
from super- to subdiffusion. In a finite interval of \alpha, ballistic behavior
with logarithmic corrections holds that was observed in a previously introduced
CTRW model with independent l and \tau. Universality of tracer's diffusion in
the porous medium is considered.Comment: 15 page
Inertial self-propulsion of spherical microswimmers by rotation-translation coupling
We study swimming of small spherical particles who regulate fluid flow on
their surface by applying tangential squirming strokes. We derive translational
and rotational velocities for any given stroke which is not restricted by axial
symmetry as assumed usually. The formulation includes inertia of both the fluid
and the swimmer, motivated by inertia's relevance for large Volvox colonies. We
show that inertial contribution to mean speed comes from dynamic coupling
between translation and rotation, which occurs only for strokes that break
axial symmetry. Remarkably, this effect enables overcoming the scallop theorem
on impossibility of propulsion by time-reversible stroke. We study examples of
tangential strokes of axisymmetric travelling wave, and of asymmetric
time-reversible flapping. In the latter case, we find that inertia-driven mean
speed is optimized for flapping frequency and swimmer's size which fall well
within the range of realistic physical values for Volvox colonies. We
conjecture that similarly to Paramecium, large Volvox could use time-reversible
strokes for inertia-driven swimming coupled with their rotations.Comment: Final version. Accepted to Physical Review Fluids on January 201
Impact of turbulence on the stratified flow around small particles
We study the turbulent flow of the density-stratified fluid around a small
translating (either passively or self-propelled) particle. It was found
recently [A. M. Ardekani and R. Stocker, Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 105, 084502
(2010)] that without turbulence, the familiar Stokes flow is dramatically
altered by the stratification. Stratification-induced inhomogeneity "turns on"
the buoyancy introducing a new "cutoff" or "screening" length scale for the
flow, yielding closed streamlines and a faster (exponential-like) decay of
velocity. This result, however, did not account for the potential role of the
background turbulence, intrinsically present in many aquatic environments.
Turbulence mixes the density opposing the effect. Here we derive and solve the
advection-diffusion equation that describes the interplay of turbulent mixing,
diffusion of the stratifying agent and buoyancy. We derive an exact expression
for fluctuations due to weak background turbulence and show that stronger
turbulence can completely change the flow around the particle, canceling the
effect of stratification and restoring the unstratified Stokes flow.Comment: the problem was re-visited following the critique of the anonymous
Referee to take into account the effect of turbulence on background density
stratificatio
Density and tracer statistics in compressible turbulence: phase transition to multifractality
We study the statistics of fluid (gas) density and concentration of passive
tracer particles (dust) in compressible turbulence. We raise the question of
whether the fluid density which is an active field that reacts back on the
transporting flow and the passive concentration of tracers must coincide in the
steady state, which we demonstrate to be crucial both theoretically and
experimentally. The fields' coincidence is provable at small Mach numbers,
however at finite Mach numbers the assumption of mixing is needed, not evident
due to the possibility of self-organization. Irrespective of whether the fields
coincide we obtain a number of rigorous conclusions on both fields. As Ma
increases the fields in the inertial range go through a phase transition from a
finite continuous smooth to a singular multifractal distribution. We propose a
way to calculate fractal dimensions from numerical or experimental data. We
derive a simple expression for the spectrum of fractal dimensions of isothermal
turbulence and describe limitations of lognormality. The expression depends on
a single parameter: the scaling exponent of the density spectrum. We propose a
mechanism for the phase transition of concentration to multifractality. We
demonstrate that the pair-correlation function is invariant under the action of
the probability density function of the inter-pair distance that has the Markov
property implying applicability of the Kraichnan turbulence model. We use the
model to derive an explicit expression for the tracers pair correlation that
demonstrates their smooth transition to multifractality and confirms the
transition's mechanism. Our results are of potentially important implications
on astrophysical problems such as star formation as well as on technological
applications such as supersonic combustion. As an example we demonstrate strong
increase of planetesimals formation rate at the transition.Comment: 41 pages; revised versio
Distribution of Brownian particles in turbulence
We consider Brownian particles immersed in the fluid which flow is turbulent.
We study the limit where the particles' inertia is weak and their velocity
relaxes fast to the velocity of the flow. The trajectories of the particles in
this case have a strange attractor in the physical space, if the particles'
diffusion is neglected. Under the latter condition the singular density of the
particles was recently described completely. The analysis was done for real
turbulence and did not involve the flow modeling. Here we take the diffusion
into account showing how it modifies the statistics. The analysis is performed
also for real turbulence. Experimentally testable predictions are made.Comment: 4 page
Web as a fundamental universal system
We study the possibility that further advancement in the understanding of the
order of chaos may demand a certain reconsideration of the approach to the
classical mechanics. For this we suggest to consider the viewpoint that
spatio-temporal relations between objects are emergent and that they are but a
result of complex interactions of objects. Such an approach is a natural
continuation of the revision of the notions of space and time started by the
general theory of relativity. It leads to a possible extension of the structure
of the classical mechanics. Namely, the result of the objects interactions can
be wider than the spatio-temporal relations. In this case interactions form a
generalized space ("Field-Space") wider than its spatio-temporal section (while
the known interactions are embedded within that section). The study of such
hypothesis demands constructing a theory, not relying on space and time as
primitive notions. As primary elements of such a theory we consider objects and
purely informational connections between them, not expressed in spatio-temporal
terms. Following the logic of this theory, the world constitutes a complex
information web. The Web is in the state of a constant flux (of a more general
category than the one of the quantum fields) - an incessant change of
connections, the complex order of which comprises the order of chaos. Reminding
the space build-up from the Regge skeleton, the Web builds a unified
Field-Space of pure information, manifested in space as energy distribution. We
describe the emergence of spatio-temporal laws from the viewpoint of purely
informational physics. The suggested construction of physics on the purely
informational basis is a candidate for the theory of quantum gravity.Comment: 12 page
Turbulence - "motion of multitude": a multi-agent spin model for complex flows
We propose a new paradigm for emergence of macroscopic flows. The latter are
considered as a collective phenomenon created by many agents that exchange
abstract information. The information exchange causes agents to change their
relative positions which results in a flow. This paradigm, aimed at the study
of the nature of turbulence, appeals to the original meaning of the word:
"turbulence" siginifies "disordered motions of crowds". We give a preliminary
discussion on a model of multi-agent dynamics that realizes the paradigm. This
dynamics is reminiscent of spin glasses and neural networks. The model is
relational, i. e. it assumes no spatio-temporal background and may serve as a
basis for an approach to quantum gravity via spin models.Comment: 4 page
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