On the Well-Mixed Quasi-One-Dimensional Formulation of Lagrangian Stochastic Models for Turbulent Relative Dispersion

Scaling laws of passive tracer dispersion in the turbulent surface layer

Experimental results for passive tracer dispersion in the turbulent surface layer under stable conditions are presented. In this case, the dispersion of tracer particles is determined by the interplay of three mechanisms: relative dispersion (celebrated Richardson's mechanism), shear dispersion (particle separation due to variation of the mean velocity field) and specific surface-layer dispersion (induced by the gradient of the energy dissipation rate in the turbulent surface layer). The latter mechanism results in the rather slow (ballistic) law for the mean squared particle separation. Based…

The dependence of relative dispersion on turbulence scales in Lagrangian Stochastic Models

The aim of the article is to investigate the relative dispersion properties of the Well Mixed class of Lagrangian Stochastic Models. Dimensional analysis shows that given a model in the class, its properties depend solely on a non-dimensional parameter, which measures the relative weight of Lagrangian-to-Eulerian scales. This parameter is formulated in terms of Kolmogorov constants, and model properties are then studied by modifying its value in a range that contains the experimental variability. Large variations are found for the quantity $g^*=2gC_0^{-1}$, where $g$ is the Richardson constant…

基于条件扩散模型的间隙拉格朗日湍流信号的随机重建

Stochastic Reconstruction of Gappy Lagrangian Turbulent Signals by Conditional Diffusion Models

提出基于条件生成扩散模型的随机方法，重建湍流被动平流物体轨迹缺失数据，保留非高斯间歇特性，精度优于高斯过程回归，适用于多物理场景。

Drifters dispersion in the Adriatic Sea: Lagrangian data and chaotic model

We analyze characteristics of drifter trajectories from the Adriatic Sea with recently introduced nonlinear dynamics techniques. We discuss how in quasi-enclosed basins, relative dispersion as function of time, a standard analysis tool in this context, may give a distorted picture of the dynamics. We further show that useful information may be obtained by using two related non-asymptotic indicators, the Finite-Scale Lyapunov Exponent (FSLE) and the Lagrangian Structure Function (LSF), which both describe intrinsic physical properties at a given scale. We introduce a simple chaotic model for dr…

Lagrangian Velocity Correlations and Absolute Dispersion in the Midlatitude Troposphere

Employing daily wind data from the ECMWF, we perform passive particle advection to estimate the Lagrangian velocity correlation functions (LVCF) associated with the midlatitude tropospheric flow. In particular we decompose the velocity field into time mean and transient (or eddy) components to better understand the nature of the LVCF's. A closely related quantity, the absolute dispersion (AD) is also examined. Given the anisotropy of the flow, meridional and zonal characteristics are considered separately. The zonal LVCF is seen to be non-exponential. In fact, for intermediate timescales it ca…

Fractional Brownian motion, the Matern process, and stochastic modeling of turbulent dispersion

Stochastic process exhibiting power-law slopes in the frequency domain are frequently well modeled by fractional Brownian motion (fBm). In particular, the spectral slope at high frequencies is associated with the degree of small-scale roughness or fractal dimension. However, a broad class of real-world signals have a high-frequency slope, like fBm, but a plateau in the vicinity of zero frequency. This low-frequency plateau, it is shown, implies that the temporal integral of the process exhibits diffusive behavior, dispersing from its initial location at a constant rate. Such processes are not …

Lagrangian drifter dispersion in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

In the framework of Monitoring by Ocean Drifters (MONDO) Project, a set of Lagrangian drifters were released in proximity of the Brazil Current, the western branch of the Subtropical Gyre in the South Atlantic Ocean. The experimental strategy of deploying part of the buoys in clusters offers the opportunity to examine relative dispersion on a wide range of scales. Adopting a dynamical systems approach, we focus our attention on scale-dependent indicators, like the finite-scale Lyapunov exponent (FSLE) and the finite-scale (mean square) relative velocity (FSRV) between two drifters as function …

β平面湍流实验室实验中的相对扩散和涡动扩散率

Relative dispersion and eddy diffusivity in laboratory experiments of $β$-plane turbulence

该研究给出纬向地转流态下快速旋转湍流中相对扩散和湍流扩散的首次实验测量，通过合成拉格朗日轨迹计算相关统计量，揭示了不同区域转变，还能据此测量湍能耗散率和湍流扩散率，测量结果与相关理论大致相符。