Angular statistics of Lagrangian trajectories in turbulence

The angle between subsequent particle displacement increments is evaluated as a function of the timelag in isotropic turbulence. It is shown that the evolution of this angle contains two well-defined power-laws, reflecting the multi-scale dynamics of high-Reynolds number turbulence. The proba-bility density function of the directional change is shown to be self-similar and well approximated by an analytically derived model assuming Gaussianity and independence of the velocity and the Lagrangian acceleration.

Wouter J.T. Bos, Benjamin Kadoch, Kai Schneider. Angular statistics of Lagrangian trajectories in turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 2015, 114, pp.214502. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.214502⟩. ⟨hal-01085070⟩

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Date de publication: 29-05-2015

Auteurs:
  • Wouter J.T. Bos
  • Benjamin Kadoch
  • Kai Schneider

Digital object identifier (doi): http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.214502


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