Niccolo' Gallino
Relative dispersion and Lagrangian correlations in inhomogeneous turbulence: experimental and numerical study.
Rel. Daniela Tordella. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Physics Of Complex Systems (Fisica Dei Sistemi Complessi), 2024
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Abstract
This work explores two aspects of the motion of particles inside a turbulent fluid flow: relative dispersion and Lagrangian correlations. These are studied experimentally, by means of custom-made miniaturized radiosondes launched in clusters to obtain data about the turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer, and numerically, by means of Direct Numerical Simulations of a cloud's border region, modeled as a turbulent mixing layer in which the advected Lagrangian particles are water droplets. Relative dispersion is one of the open problems of fluid turbulence, concerning how fast particles are spread apart by the fluid flow. The relevant theoretical framework is Kolmogorov's and Obukhov's K41 theory, but this only holds for the case of stationary, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence.
However, real flows rarely hold these properties, and thus studies of dispersion far from these ideal conditions are necessary both for theoretical insight into real turbulence and for correct modelling of real-world phenomena and forecasting
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