Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in strongly coupled dusty plasma with rotational shear flows and tracer transport
arXiv:2107.01831 · doi:10.1017/S0022377821001288
Abstract
Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability plays a significant role in transport and mixing properties of any medium. In this paper, we numerically explore this instability for a two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasma with rotational shear flows. We study this medium using generalized hydrodynamic fluid model which treats it as viscoelastic fluid. We consider the specific cases of rotating vorticity with abrupt radial profiles of rotation. In particular: single-circulation, and multi-circulation vorticity shell profiles have been chosen. We observe the KH vortices at each circular interface between two relative rotating flows along with a pair of ingoing and outgoing wavefronts of transverse shear waves. Our studies show that due to the interplay between KH vortices and shear waves in the strongly coupled medium, the mixing and transport behaviour are much better than inviscid hydrodynamic fluids. In interests of substantiating the mixing and transport behaviour, the generalized hydrodynamic fluid model is extended to include the Lagrangian tracer particles. The numerical dispersion of these tracer particles in a flow provides an estimate of the diffusion in such a medium. We present the preliminary observations of tracers distribution (cluster formation) and their diffusion (mean square displacement) across the medium.
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