arXiv · nlin/0207008
Spectra of turbulence in dilute polymer solutions
Abstract
We investigate turbulence in dilute polymer solutions when polymers are strongly stretched by the flow. We establish power-law spectrum of velocity, which is not associated with a flux of a conserved quantity, in two cases. The first case is the elastic waves range of high Reynolds number turbulence of polymer solutions above the coil-stretch transition. The second case is the elastic turbulence, where chaotic flow is excited due to elastic instabilities at small Reynolds numbers.
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A. Fouxon, V. Lebedev. 2002-07-02. Spectra of turbulence in dilute polymer solutions. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1577563
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