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Statistics of single and multiple floaters in experiments of surface wave turbulence

Nicolás F. Del Grosso, Lucía M. Cappelletti, Nicolás E. Sujovolsky, Pablo D. Mininni, and Pablo J. Cobelli

  • Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física, & IFIBA, CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 074805 – Published 31 July, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.074805

Abstract

We present laboratory experiments of surface wave turbulence excited by paddles in the deep water regime. The free surface is seeded with buoyant particles that are advected and dispersed by the flow. Positions and velocities of the floaters are measured using particle tracking velocimetry. We study the statistics of velocity and acceleration of the particles, mean vertical displacements, single-particle horizontal dispersion, and the phenomenon of preferential concentration. Using a simple model together with the experimental data, we show that the time evolution of the particles has three characteristic processes that dominate the dynamics at different times: drag by surface waves at early times, trapping by short-lived horizontal eddies at intermediate times, and advection by a large-scale mean circulation at late times.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 074805– Published 31 July, 2019
  • Received 28 January 2019
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