Turbulent transport of material particles: an experimental study of finite size effects.

Phys Rev Lett

Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, CNRS/UJF/INPG UMR5519, BP53, 38041 Grenoble, France.

Published: November 2007

We present experimental Lagrangian statistics of finite sized, neutrally bouyant, particles transported in an isotropic turbulent flow. The particle's diameter is varied over turbulent inertial scales. Finite size effects are shown not to be trivially related to velocity intermittency. The global shape of the particle's acceleration probability density functions is not found to depend significantly on its size while the particle's acceleration variance decreases as it becomes larger in quantitative agreement with the classical k(-7/3) scaling for the spectrum of Eulerian pressure fluctuations in the carrier flow.

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