2002/07/02 by A. Fouxon, V. Lebedev · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.CD
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.1577563
14 pages, RevTeX
arxiv created 2002/07/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We investigate turbulence in dilute polymer solutions when polymers are strongly stretched by the flow. We establish power-law spectrum of velocity, which is not associated with a flux of a conserved quantity, in two cases. The first case is the elastic waves range of high Reynolds number turbulence of polymer solutions above the coil-stretch transition. The second case is the elastic turbulence, where chaotic flow is excited due to elastic instabilities at small Reynolds numbers.