Turbulence theories and statistical closure approaches

Y Zhou - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
When discussing research in physics and in science more generally, it is common to ascribe
equal importance to the three components of the scientific trinity: theoretical, experimental …

Statistical models for the dynamics of heavy particles in turbulence

J Bec, K Gustavsson, B Mehlig - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
When very small particles are suspended in a fluid in motion, they tend to follow the flow.
How such tracer particles are mixed, transported, and dispersed by turbulent flow has been …

Scale-dependent statistics of inertial particle distribution in high Reynolds number turbulence

K Matsuda, K Schneider, K Yoshimatsu - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Multiscale statistical analyses of inertial particle distributions are presented to investigate the
statistical signature of clustering and void regions in particle-laden incompressible isotropic …

Clustering and self-organization in small-scale natural and artificial systems

E Bormashenko, AA Fedorets… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Physical properties of clusters, ie systems composed of a 'small'number of particles, are
qualitatively different from those of infinite systems. The general approach to the problem of …

Divergence and convergence of inertial particles in high-Reynolds-number turbulence

T Oujia, K Matsuda, K Schneider - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Inertial particle data from three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of particle-laden
homogeneous isotropic turbulence at high Reynolds number are analysed using Voronoi …

Heavy Particle Clustering in Inertial Subrange of High–Reynolds Number Turbulence

K Matsuda, K Yoshimatsu, K Schneider - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Direct numerical simulation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence shows pronounced
clustering of inertial particles in the inertial subrange at high Reynolds number, in addition to …

[HTML][HTML] Spectral characteristics of particle preferential concentration in turbulence computed by Eulerian and Lagrangian methods

GH Downing, Y Hardalupas - International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of the Fourier spectra characteristics of
particle preferential concentration in turbulent flows obtained by Eulerian and Lagrangian …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale clustering of light small particles in developed turbulence

S Oka, D Watanabe, S Goto - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Small solid particles, droplets, and bubbles can form clusters in turbulent flows by the action
of coherent vortices. This phenomenon, sometimes called the preferential concentration …

Statistical theory of passive scalar turbulence within the viscous-convective range

T Ariki - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
An expected statistical law of passive scalar turbulence subjected to high Schmidt numbers
is studied with the Hessian-based Lagrangian renormalized approximation (HBLRA), a self …

Spectral theory of passive scalar with mean scalar gradient

T Kitamura - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
A single-time two-point spectral closure is developed by approximation of the Lagrangian
direct interaction approximation (LDIA) for a passive scalar in the presence of a mean scalar …