Abstract
The dynamics of finite-sized particles with large inertia are investigated in steady and time-dependent flows through the numerical solution of the invariance equation, describing the spatiotemporal evolution of the slow/inertial manifold representing the effective particle velocity field. This approach allows for an accurate reconstruction of the effective particle divergence field, controlling clustering/dispersion features of particles with large inertia for which a perturbative approach is either inaccurate or not even convergent. The effect of inertia on heavy and light particles is quantified in terms of the rate of contraction/expansion of volume elements along a particle trajectory and of the maximum Lyapunov exponent for systems exhibiting chaotic orbits, such as the time-periodic sine-flow on the 2D torus and the time-dependent 2D cavity flow.
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