Role of elastic stress in statistical and scaling properties of elastic turbulence
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Investigating Stress-relaxation and Failure Responses in the Trachea
Published on: October 18, 2022
Teodor Burghelea1, Enrico Segre, Victor Steinberg
1Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel.
Abstract:
The role of elastic stress in statistical and scaling properties of elastic turbulence in a polymer solution flow between two disks is discussed. The analogy with a small-scale magnetodynamics and a passive scalar turbulent advection in the Batchelor regime is used to explain the experimentally observed statistical properties, the flow structure, and the scaling of elastic turbulence. The emergence of a new length scale, namely, the boundary layer thickness, is observed and studied.
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