Passive scalar transport in peripheral regions of random flows

We investigate statistical properties of the passive scalar mixing in random (turbulent) flows assuming its diffusion to be weak. Then at advanced stages of the passive scalar decay, its unmixed residue is primarily concentrated in a narrow diffusive layer near the wall and its transport to the bulk goes through the peripheral region (laminar sublayer of the flow). We conducted Lagrangian numerical simulations of the process for different space dimensions d and revealed structures responsible for the transport, which are passive scalar tongues pulled from the diffusive boundary layer to the bulk. We investigated statistical properties of the passive scalar and of the passive scalar integrated along the wall. Moments of both objects demonstrate scaling behavior outside the diffusive boundary layer. We propose an analytic scheme for the passive scalar statistics, explaining the features observed numerically.     

Lagrangian velocity statistics in turbulent flows: effects of dissipation

We use the multifractal formalism to describe the effects of dissipation on Lagrangian velocity statistics in turbulent flows. We analyze high Reynolds number experiments and direct numerical simulation data. We show that this approach reproduces the shape evolution of velocity increment probability density functions from Gaussian to stretched exponentials as the time lag decreases from integral to dissipative time scales. A quantitative understanding of the departure from scaling exhibited by the magnitude cumulants, early in the inertial range, is obtained with a free parameter function D(h) which plays the role of the singularity spectrum in the asymptotic limit of infinite Reynolds number. We observe that numerical and experimental data are accurately described by a unique quadratic D(h) spectrum which is found to extend from h(min) approximately 0.18 to h(max) approximately 1.     

Percolation in a symmetric random potential

We study percolation in a two-dimensional random Gaussian potential and calculate p_c, the critical exponents υ, β, γ, the fractal dimension of the percolating equipotential lines, and the amplitude ratio C⁺/C⁻ of the perlocation susceptibility χ. These quantities including the amplitude ratio match the known results of the two-dimensional lattice percolation models.     

Percolation and variable-range hopping in random systems with spherical site symmetry

We show that the numerical work of Seager and Pike^1,2 suggests that the critical volume fraction (CVF) is a constant for sites of spherical symmetry in n dimensions, with $\text{CVF}\text{?nπ}{}^{\mathrm{1?n}}$ for small n. The average number of bonds per site, $\text{B}\text{?}{}_{\mathrm{c}}$, is calculated for a random distribution of site radii, and shown to agree with the Monte Carlo calculation. Analysis of a model having spherical site symmetry in (position-energy) space yields percolation constants C₂ = 2.1, C₃ = 2.6. This calculation indicates that there is an anomaly in some estimated values for the AHL percolation model. The physical significance of our model and its possible use in hard-core problems is discussed.     

Reactive particles in random flows

We study the dynamics of chemically or biologically active particles advected by open flows of chaotic time dependence, which can be modeled by a random time dependence of the parameters on a stroboscopic map. We develop a general theory for reactions in such random flows, and derive the reaction equation for this case. We show that there is a singular enhancement of the reaction in random flows, and this enhancement is increased as compared to the nonrandom case. We verify our theory in a model flow generated by four point vortices moving chaotically.     

Percolation of level sets for two-dimensional random fields with lattice symmetry

Let (x),x², be a random field, which may be viewed as the potential of an incompressible flow for which the trajectories follow the level lines of . Percolation methods are used to analyze the sizes of the connected components of level sets {x:(x)=h} and sets {x:(x)h} in several classes of random fields with lattice symmetry. In typical cases there is a sharp transition at a critical value ofh from exponential boundedness for such components to the existence of an unbounded component. In some examples, however, there is a nondegenerate interval of values ofh where components are bounded but not exponentially so, and in other cases each level set may be a single infinite line which visits every region of the lattice.     

一个强、弱耗散功能可分隔系统中的特征激变

报道一个由保守映象和耗散映象不连续、不可逆地分段描述的系统，以及在其中发生的一例特征激变.激变的独特之处在于逃逸孔洞.由映象的不连续、不可逆性而导致相平面中出现一个胖分形迭代禁区网，它使得一个混沌吸引子突然失稳而发生激变后出现的两个周期吸引子的吸引域边界成为点滴状.仅仅在每个周期点邻近存在这样的一个作为逃逸孔洞的、受到强耗散性支配和禁区边界限制的规则边界吸引域. 关键词： 激变 保守映象 耗散映象 逃逸孔洞     

Extremely asymmetrical scattering in gratings with weak dissipation: some physical analogies

A detailed analysis of new effects related to extremely asymmetrical scattering (EAS) of bulk and guided weakly dissipating electromagnetic waves in oblique periodic gratings is presented. A very important role of the previously determined critical grating width is demonstrated for EAS in dissipative gratings. Incident and scattered wave amplitudes inside and outside the grating are analysed as functions of dissipation coefficient, grating width, grating amplitude, etc. Strong differences in the patterns of scattering in gratings that are narrower and wider than the critical width are demonstrated and discussed. Deep analogies between EAS and other resonant optical effects, such as attenuated total reflection, Fabry–Pérot interferometry, etc. are revealed and discussed. A physical interpretation of the obtained results is presented. Received: 19 February 2002 / Revised version: 28 June 2002 / Published online: 22 November 2002 RID="*" ID="*"Corresponding author. Fax: +61-7/3864-9079, E-mail: d.gramotnev@qut.edu.au     

Percolation model of ion transport in channel structures

Using the results of two-dimensional simulation and the analogy with diffusion it is shown that during the flux of a direct current the dynamic volume charge having a fractal geometry is formed at the electrode/superionic conductor interface. With the methods of percolation theory it is shown that the time dependence of the conductivity of volume charge region follows a fractal power law. In this case Fourier transformation leads to a frequency response with constant phase element (CPE) at low frequencies. Paper presented at the 1st Euroconference on Solid State Ionics, Zakynthos, Greece, 11 – 18 September 1994.     

Towards lowering dissipation bounds for turbulent flows

We examine the background flow variational principle for calculating bounds on the energy dissipation rate in turbulent shear flow, and suggest to select this principle's test functions such that they comply with the small-scale smoothness of real turbulent velocity fields. A self-consistent algorithm implementing this requirement then yields an upper bound on the dimensionless dissipation coefficient which shows a weak power-law decrease at high Reynolds numbers, instead of approaching a nonzero constant, as it did in previous estimates. Received 26 October 1998     

Effective dissipation and turbulence in spectrally truncated euler flows

A new transient regime in the relaxation towards absolute equilibrium of the conservative and time-reversible 3D Euler equation with a high-wave-number spectral truncation is characterized. Large-scale dissipative effects, caused by the thermalized modes that spontaneously appear between a transition wave number and the maximum wave number, are calculated using fluctuation dissipation relations. The large-scale dynamics is found to be similar to that of high-Reynolds number Navier-Stokes equations and thus obeys (at least approximately) Kolmogorov scaling.     

Sound radiation due to unsteady dissipation in turbulent flows

The radiation of sound from free turbulence is known to be dominated at sufficiently low Mach numbers by the unsteady dissipation of temperature or composition gradients, where these are present in the flow. Scaling laws for dissipation noise are developed, with particular application to jet mixing. Existing noise measurements on hot air jets at velocities down to 0·25c₀ appear to be better explained by a dipole mechanism (with intensity proportional to U⁶ than by unsteady thermal dissipation (for which the predicted intensity varies as U⁴).     

Convection-enhanced diffusion for random flows

We analyze the effective diffusivity of a passive scalar in a two-dimensional, steady, incompressible random flow that has mean zero and a stationary stream function. We show that in the limit of small diffusivity or large Peclet number, with convection dominating, there is substantial enhancement of the effective diffusivity. Our analysis is based on some new variational principles for convection diffusion problems and on some facts from continuum percolation theory, some of which are widely believed to be correct but have not been proved yet. We show in detail how the variational principles convert information about the geometry of the level lines of the random stream function into properties of the effective diffusivity and substantiate the result of Isichenko and Kalda that the effective diffusivity behaves likeɛ ^3/13 when the molecular diffusivityɛ is small, assuming some percolation-theoretic facts. We also analyze the effective diffusivity for a special class of convective flows, random cellular flows, where the facts from percolation theory are well established and their use in the variational principles is more direct than for general random flows.