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| Titel |
The role of a delay time on the spatial structure of chaotically advected reactive scalars |
| VerfasserIn |
A. Tzella, P. H. Haynes |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2009
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 11 (2009) |
| Datensatznummer |
250030328
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| Zusammenfassung |
| This talk concerns the spatial structure of reactive scalar fields in two-dimensional,
incompressible chaotic advection flows. Considerations of such fields arise naturally when
studying interacting chemical or biological species, such as ozone in the atmosphere
and plankton populations in the ocean, where the dominant flow is large-scale and
quasi-horizontal. In a regime where diffusion can be neglected (large Péclet number), the
scalar concentration in any fluid parcel is determined by the time history of that parcel. The
emerging spatial structures are filamental and characterised by a single scaling regime with a
Hölder exponent that depends on the rate of convergence of the reactive processes involved
and the stirring induced by the flow, measured by the average rate of divergence of the
distance of neighbouring fluid parcels.
Motivated by the models of evolution of complex organisms such as oceanic zooplankton,
we here examine the role of delay times introduced into the reaction term. For sufficiently
small scales all interacting fields share the same spatial structure, as found in the absence of a
delay time. For larger scales, depending on the strength of the stirring and the magnitude of
the delay time, two scaling regimes that are unique to the delay system, may appear. |
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