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Vikash Pandey1,2, Dhrubaditya Mitra2, Prasad Perlekar1
1Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Gopanpally, Hyderabad 500046, India.
Abstract:
We investigate the spectral properties of buoyancy-driven bubbly flows. Using high-resolution numerical simulations and phenomenology of homogeneous turbulence, we identify the relevant energy transfer mechanisms. We find (a) at a high enough Galilei number (ratio of the buoyancy to viscous forces) the velocity power spectrum shows the Kolmogorov scaling with a power-law exponent -5/3 for the range of scales between the bubble diameter and the dissipation scale (η). (b) For scales smaller than η, the physics of pseudo-turbulence is recovered.
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