Fractional Laplacian Spectral Approach to Turbulence in a Dusty Plasma Monolayer

This work presents an analytical investigation of anomalous diffusion and turbulence in a dusty plasma monolayer, where energy transport across scales leads to the spontaneous formation of spatially disordered patterns. Many-body simulations of 10,000-particle dusty plasma monolayers are used to dem...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-06
Main Authors: Kostadinova, Evdokiya G, Banka, Rahul, Padgett, Joshua L, Liaw, Constanze D, Matthews, Lorin S, Hyde, Truell W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dust
Dusty plasmas
Fluid dynamics
Mathematical analysis
Monolayers
Particle size distribution
Turbulence
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Summary:This work presents an analytical investigation of anomalous diffusion and turbulence in a dusty plasma monolayer, where energy transport across scales leads to the spontaneous formation of spatially disordered patterns. Many-body simulations of 10,000-particle dusty plasma monolayers are used to demonstrate how the global dynamics depend on the statistical properties of the dust assembly for realistic laboratory conditions. We find that disorder due to variations in the dust size distribution and charge-driven nonlocal interactions resulting in anomalous dust diffusion are key factors for the onset of instabilities. The resulting dynamics exhibit features of inertial turbulence over slightly more than half a decade of scales proportional or smaller than the Debye shielding length. These processes are examined analytically using a recently developed Fractional Laplacian Spectral (FLS) technique, which identifies the active energy channels as a function of scale, disorder concentration, and features of the nonlocal interactions. The predictions from the theoretical (spectral) analysis demonstrate agreement with the results from the many-body (kinetic) simulations, thus providing a powerful tool for the study of active turbulence.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2102.09344