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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2 Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
A statistical description of heavy particles suspended in incompressible rough self-similar flows is developed. It is shown that, differently from smooth flows, particles do not form fractal clusters. They rather distribute inhomogeneously with a statistics that only depends on a local Stokes number, given by the ratio between the particles' response time and the turnover time associated with the observation scale. Particle clustering is reduced by the fluid roughness. Heuristic arguments supported by numerics explain this effect in terms of the algebraic tails of the probability density function of the velocity difference between two particles.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
025301
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Clustering of heavy particles in random self-similar flow.
pubmed:affiliation
CNRS UMR 6202, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, BP4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article