Ordering of small particles in one-dimensional coherent structures by time-periodic flows

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Ordering of small particles in one-dimensional coherent structures by time-periodic flows
المؤلفون: Pushkin, Dmitri, Melnikov, Denis, Shevtsova, Valentina
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 234501 (2011)
سنة النشر: 2011
المجموعة: Nonlinear Sciences
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Sciences - Chaotic Dynamics
الوصف: Small particles transported by a fluid medium do not necessarily have to follow the flow. We show that for a wide class of time-periodic incompressible flows inertial particles have a tendency to spontaneously align in one-dimensional dynamic coherent structures. This effect may take place for particles so small that often they would be expected to behave as passive tracers and be used in PIV measurement technique. We link the particle tendency to form one-dimensional structures to the nonlinear phenomenon of phase locking. We propose that this general mechanism is, in particular, responsible for the enigmatic formation of the `particle accumulation structures' discovered experimentally in thermocapillary flows more than a decade ago and unexplained until now.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.234501
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1931
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1106.1931
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.234501