Speaker
Bernhard Mehlig
Description
We study the dynamics of small particles suspended in mixing
flows (e.g. microscopic water droplets in turbulent rain
clouds). We describe how the particles move, cluster
together, and collide. Our results enable us, for example,
to address the question of how long it takes to rain from a
vigorously turbulent rain cloud. The talk is based on the
manuscripts appended below.
Mehlig & Wilkinson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 250602
Duncan, Mehlig, Ostlund & Wilkinson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95
(2005) 165503 Arvedson, Mehlig, Wilkinson & Nakamura, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 030601 Wilkinson, Mehlig & Bezuglyy,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 048501 Gustavsson, Mehlig,
Wilkinson & Uski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 174503
