Experiments on turbulent dispersion.pptVIP

Experiments on turbulent dispersion P Tabeling, M C Jullien, P Castiglione ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris (France) Outline 1 - Dispersion in a smooth field (Batchelor regime) 2 - Dispersion in a rough field (the inverse cascade) The experimental set-up HOWEVER, THE STORY IS NOT FINISHED The life of a pair of particles released in the system How two particles separate ? exponentially, according to the theory Blow-up of the previous figure : the first four seconds Separation (squared) for 100000 pairs LINEAR LINEAR LOG-LINEAR C Jullien (2001) Part 2 :DISPERSION IN THE INVERSE CASCADE Remind