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arXiv 1410.7824physics.flu-dyn
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湍流自由面上漂浮物聚团的实验研究

Clustering of floaters on the free surface of a turbulent flow: an experimental study

Pablo Gutiérrez, Sébastien Aumaître

摘要:

本文对漂浮在湍流表面的毫米级球体的统计特性进行了实验研究。该流动是由电磁力在液态金属层中产生的。通过使用两个磁体阵列,我们能够创建一个高度波动的流和另一个更稳定的流。在这两种情况下,我们遵循数百个颗粒漂浮在变形的液体金属界面的运动。我们的证据聚集的漂浮物的统计研究,当地的颗粒浓度。揭示了团簇的一些动力学性质。我们执行粒子浓度和流体力学量与惯性效应之间的空间相关性;与涡旋运动,并与水平发散(对应于表面的可压缩性)。通过比较这些相关性,我们提出了所谓的表面压缩性作为我们系统中的主要聚类机制。因此,虽然漂浮物不是被动标量,并在变形表面上移动,但该方案与湍流的几乎平坦的自由表面上的被动标量报告的方案相似。

英文摘要:

We present an experimental study of the statistical properties of millimeter-size spheres floating on the surface of a turbulent flow. The flow is generated in a layer of liquid metal by an electromagnetic forcing. By using two magnet arrays, we are able to create one highly fluctuating flow and another, more stationary flow. In both cases, we follow the motion of hundreds of particles floating at the deformed interface of the liquid metal. We evidence the clustering of floaters by a statistical study of the local concentration of particles. Some dynamical properties of clusters are exposed. We perform spatial correlations between particle concentration and hydrodynamical quantities linked with inertial effects; with vortical motion, and with horizontal divergence (corresponding to compressibility in the surface). From comparing these correlations, we propose the so-called surface compressibility as the main clustering mechanism in our system. Hence, although floaters are not passive scalar and move on a deformed surface, the scenario is similar to the one reported for passive scalar on an almost flat free surface of a turbulent flow.

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