Experiments on turbulent dispersion.ppt

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 Reminding... We are dealing with a diffusion advection given by : Two cases : u(x,t) smooth u(x,t) rough ARRANGEMENT USED FOR THE INVERSE CASCADE A typical instantaneous velocity field l 2l 4l e Cartoon of the inverse cascade in 2D vorticity streamfunction Energy spectrum for the inverse cascade Slope -5/3 injection dissipation 2D spectrum Evolution of a drop released in the inverse cascade Evolution of a drop in the Batchelor regime How do two particles separate ? Averaged squared separation with time in the inverse cascade Slope 3 * Important theoretical results have been obtained in the fifties, sixties, (KOC theory, Batchelor regime,.. ) In the last ten years, theory has made important progress for the case of rough velocity fields essentially after the Kraichnan model (1968) was rigorously solved (in 1995 by two groups) In the meantime, the case of smooth velocity fields, called the Batchelor regime, has been solved analytically. Experiments on turbulent dispersion have been performed since 1950, leading to important observations such as scalar spectra, scalar fronts,... - However, up to recent years no detailed : - Investigation of lagrangian properties, pair or multipoint statistics - Reliable measurement of high order statistics In the last years, much progress has been done I B Magnet Principle of the experiment 2 fluid layers, salt and Clear water