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Uncovering the multifractality of Lagrangian pair dispersion in shock-dominated turbulence

De, S and Mitra, D and Pandit, R (2024) Uncovering the multifractality of Lagrangian pair dispersion in shock-dominated turbulence. In: Physical Review Research, 6 (2).

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L022032

Abstract

Lagrangian pair dispersion provides insights into mixing in turbulent flows. By direct numerical simulations (DNSs) we show that the statistics of pair dispersion in the randomly forced two-dimensional Burgers equation, which is a typical model of shock-dominated turbulence, is very different from its incompressible counterpart because Lagrangian particles get trapped in shocks. We develop a heuristic theoretical framework that accounts for this - a generalization of the multifractal model - whose prediction of the scaling of Lagrangian exit times agrees well with our DNS. © 2024 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by "https://www.kb.se/samverkan-och-utveckling/oppen-tillgang-och-bibsamkonsortiet/bibsamkonsortiet.html"Bibsam.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Physical Review Research
Publisher: American Physical Society
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to authors.
Keywords: Dispersions; Lagrange multipliers; Partial differential equations, Direct-numerical-simulation; Generalisation; Lagrangian; Lagrangian particles; Models of shocks; Multifractal models; Multifractality; Theoretical framework; Two-dimensional Burger's equation; Typical model, Turbulence
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited: 03 Jun 2024 09:07
Last Modified: 03 Jun 2024 09:07
URI: https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/85117

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