Affiliation:
1. NORDITA, Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
2. TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad, India
Abstract
The rate of collision and the relative velocities of the colliding particles in turbulent flows are a crucial part of several natural phenomena, e.g. rain formation in warm clouds and planetesimal formation in protoplanetary discs. The particles are often modelled as passive, but heavy and inertial. Within this model, large relative velocities emerge due to formation of singularities (caustics) of the gradient matrix of the velocities of the particles. Using extensive direct numerical simulations of heavy particles in both two (direct and inverse cascade) and three-dimensional turbulent flows, we calculate the rate of formation of caustics,
J
as a function of the Stokes number (
St
). The best approximation to our data is
J
∼
exp
(
−
C
/
St
)
, in the limit
St
→
0
where
C
is a non-universal constant.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘Scaling the turbulence edifice (part 2)’.
Funder
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Swedish Research Council
DST
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
Cited by
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