The Complicated Relationship Between Droplets and Vortices by Rama Govindarajan
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Turbulence from Angstroms to light years
The complicated relationship between droplets and vortices
Droplet growth bottleneck-part I
Droplet growth bottleneck-part II
Droplet growth bottleneck-part III
Dynamics near a point vortex
Boundary layer structure
Singular perturbation problem
Caustics win
Particles live on the special radius
Resemblances seen in 3D
Where do droplets live? Where do collisions occur?
Droplets evacuate neighbourhood of vortices
Just before collision
Evolution with phase change
Inertia-thermodynamics-buoyancy
One mechanism: vortex pair
Vortex pair
Where buoyancy changes dynamics
Summary and thank you
Q&A
Taught by
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences