Abstract
Motivated by the understanding of the turbulent mixing mechanisms at small scale, the time evolution of an initially regular passive scalar pattern in three-dimensional homogeneous turbulence is investigated in a line-dispresion experiment. The major observation is the increasing space-fillingness of the line as time elapses. It is shown that the evolution of the fractal dimension of the support of the line can be related to the mean-field Kolmogorov scaling of velocity differences incorporating dissipative corrections and an expression for is derived that compares very well with the experiments for several distinct Reynolds numbers. Following, a criterion of micromixing is discussed.
- Received 14 December 1993
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.252
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