Fractal patterns in turbulent flow for laden particles

Abstract

We use Kinematic Simulation as a particular kind of synthetic turbulence model to study the preferential accumulation of laden particles with inertia and gravity. Particles are released as a unifrom cloud in the periodic simulation box. We allow particles to settle in synthetic flow and after some times particles concentrate in a particular sub-domain. We study the dimensional properties of these attractors as functions of drift parameter and Stokes number. The attractor's topology varies from curve(D=1) to fractal plane.