title: Inertial effects on reactive particles advected by turbulence.
abstract: We study the problem of the advection of passive particles with inertia in a two-dimensional, synthetic, and stationary turbulent flow. The asymptotic analytical result and numerical simulations show the importance of inertial bias in collecting the particles preferentially in certain regions of the flow, depending on their density relative to that of the flow. We also study how these aggregates are affected when a simple chemical reaction mechanism is introduced through a Eulerian scheme. We find that inertia can be responsible for maintaining a stationary concentration pattern even under nonfavorable reactive conditions or destroying it under favorable ones.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Química Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 647, Spain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reigada
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sagués
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sancho