| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 74, Number 1, April 2006
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| Page(s) | 62 - 68 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10503-6 | |
| Published online | 22 February 2006 | |
Multifractal clustering of passive tracers on a surface flow
1
Dipartimento di Fisica Generale and INFN, Università degli Studi di Torino Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy
2
ISAC-CNR, Sezione di Torino - Italy
3
Fachbereich Physik, Philipps-Universität - Renthof 6, D-35032 Marburg, Germany
4
INLN-CNRS - 1361 route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne, France
Received:
24
October
2005
Accepted:
6
February
2006
We study the anomalous scaling of the mass density measure of Lagrangian
tracers in a compressible flow realized on the free surface on top of a
three-dimensional flow.
The full two-dimensional probability distribution of local stretching rates
is measured. The intermittency exponents which quantify the fluctuations of
the mass measure of tracers at small scales are calculated from the large
deviation form of stretching-rate fluctuations.
The results indicate the existence of a critical exponent 
above which exponents saturate, in agreement with what has been predicted
by an analytically solvable model.
Direct evaluation of the multi-fractal dimensions by reconstructing the
coarse-grained particle density supports the results for low-order moments.
PACS: 47.27.Gs – Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence / 47.52.+j – Chaos in fluid dynamics
© EDP Sciences, 2006
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