title: Clustering of particles in turbulence due to phoresis.
abstract: We demonstrate that diffusiophoretic, thermophoretic, and chemotactic phenomena in turbulence lead to clustering of particles on multifractal sets that can be described using one single framework, valid when the particle size is much smaller than the smallest length scale of turbulence l_{0}. To quantify the clustering, we derive positive pair correlations and fractal dimensions that hold for scales smaller than l_{0}. For scales larger than l_{0} the pair-correlation function is predicted to show a stretched exponential decay towards 1. In the case of inhomogeneous turbulence we find that the fractal dimension depends on the direction of inhomogeneity. By performing experiments with particles in a turbulent gravity current we demonstrate clustering induced by salinity gradients in conformity to the theory. The particle size in the experiment is comparable to l_{0}, outside the strict validity region of the theory, suggesting that the theoretical predictions transfer to this practically relevant regime. This clustering mechanism may provide the key to the understanding of a multitude of processes such as formation of marine snow in the ocean and population dynamics of chemotactic bacteria.
authors.affiliation: ETH Zurich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Lukas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: ETH Zurich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.|Department of Computational Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, South Korea.
authors.forename: Itzhak
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fouxon
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Krug
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Maarten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Reeuwijk
authors.affiliation: ETH Zurich, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holzner