Inertial spheroids in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence

Roy, Amal and Gupta, Anupam and Ray, Samriddhi Sankar (2018) Inertial spheroids in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 98 (2).

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Abstract

We study the rotational dynamics of inertial disks and rods in three-dimensional, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. In particular, we show how the alignment and the decorrelation timescales of such spheroids depend, critically, on both the level of inertia and the aspect ratio of these particles. These results illustrate the effect of inertia-which leads to a preferential sampling of the local flow geometry-on the statistics of both disks and rods in a turbulent flow. Our results are important for a variety of natural and industrial settings where the turbulent transport of asymmetric, spheroidal inertial particles is ubiquitous.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Publisher:	AMER PHYSICAL SOC, ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, MD 20740-3844 USA
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belong to AMER PHYSICAL SOC, ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, MD 20740-3844 USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Mathematics
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2018 15:36
Last Modified:	20 Aug 2018 15:36
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/60472

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