title: Turbulent transport of material particles: an experimental study of finite size effects.
abstract: We present experimental Lagrangian statistics of finite sized, neutrally bouyant, particles transported in an isotropic turbulent flow. The particle's diameter is varied over turbulent inertial scales. Finite size effects are shown not to be trivially related to velocity intermittency. The global shape of the particle's acceleration probability density functions is not found to depend significantly on its size while the particle's acceleration variance decreases as it becomes larger in quantitative agreement with the classical k(-7/3) scaling for the spectrum of Eulerian pressure fluctuations in the carrier flow.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, CNRS/UJF/INPG UMR5519, BP53, 38041 Grenoble, France.
authors.forename: Nauman M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Qureshi
authors.forename: Mickaël
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bourgoin
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baudet
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cartellier
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gagne