Conditional Fluid-Particle Accelerations in Turbulence |
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Authors: | M.S. Borgas P.K. Yeung |
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Affiliation: | (1) CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, VIC 3195, Australia, AU;(2) School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A., US |
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Abstract: | Simple closures for average fluid-particle accelerations, conditional on fixed local fluid velocity, are considered in isotropic, homogeneous and stationary turbulence using exact probability density transport equations and are compared with direct numerical simulations (DNS). Such accelerations are common ingredients in Lagrangian stochastic models for fluid-particle trajectories in turbulence. One-particle accelerations are essentially trivial, so the focus is on two-particle relative accelerations, which are important in the relative dispersion process. The closure is simply a quadratic form in the velocity variable and this special form also defines the Eulerian velocity probability density function (pdf), and comparisons with DNS (for grids up to 5123) of both the acceleration closure and velocity pdf's are encouraging. Received 2 June 1997 and accepted 29 December 1997 |
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