Tumbling of Polymers in a Random Flow with Mean Shear
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چکیده
A polymer placed in chaotic flow with large mean shear tumbles, making a-periodic flips. We describe the statistics of angular orientation, as well as of tumbling time (separating two subsequent flips) of polymers in this flow. The probability distribution function (PDF) of the polymer orientation is peaked around a shear-preferred direction. The tails of this angular PDF are algebraic. The PDF of the tumbling time, τ , has a maximum at the value estimated as inverse Lyapunov exponent of the flow. This PDF shows an exponential tail for large τ and a small-τ tail determined by the simultaneous statistics of velocity PDF.
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