Sticky behavior of fluid particles in the compressible Kraichnan model

Abstract

We consider the compressible Kraichnan model of turbulent advection with small molecular diffusivity and velocity field regularized at short scales to mimic the effects of viscosity. As noted in ref.[5], removing those two regularizations in two opposite orders for intermediate values of compressibility gives Lagrangian flows with quite different properties. Removing the viscous regularization before diffusivity leads to the explosive separation of trajectories of fluid particles whereas turning the regularizations off in the opposite order results in coalescence of Lagrangian trajectories. In the present paper we re-examine the situation first addressed in ref.[6] in which the Prandtl number is varied when the regularizations are removed. We show that an appropriate fine-tuning leads to a sticky behavior of trajectories which hit each other on and off spending a positive amount of time together. We examine the effect of such a trajectory behavior on the passive transport showing that it induces anomalous scaling of the stationary 2-point structure function of an advected tracer and influences the rate of condensation of tracer energy in the zero wavenumber mode.

arXiv commentlatex, 35 pages

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• Particles and fields in fluid turbulence
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