title: Power and pressure fluctuations in elastic turbulence over a wide range of polymer concentrations.
abstract: Injected power P and pressure p fluctuations in a swirling flow of polymer solutions in a wide range of polymer concentrations c in elastic turbulence regime show non-Gaussian statistics that strongly resemble statistical behavior of P and p in hydrodynamic turbulence. Together with this fact, weak dependence of the statistics of rescaled variables on c may suggest that there are universal mechanisms determining the intermittent statistics of P and p. We also show that the study of the statistics of p provides a way to study statistics of the elastic stresses in elastic turbulence otherwise currently unattainable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel.
authors.forename: Yonggun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jun
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Steinberg