Wilkinson, M.; Mehlig, B. and Gustavsson, K.
(2010).
Correlation dimension of inertial particles in random flows.
EPL (Europhysics Letters), 89(5),
p. 50002.
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Abstract
We obtain an implicit equation for the correlation dimension D2 of dynamical systems in terms of an integral over a propagator. We illustrate the utility of this approach by evaluating D2 for inertial particles suspended in a random flow. In the limit where the correlation time of the flow field approaches zero, taking the short-time limit of the propagator enables D2 to be determined from the solution of a partial differential equation. We develop the solution as a power series in a dimensionless parameter which represents the strength of inertial effects.
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