Using multiscale norms to quantify mixing and transport

JL Thiffeault - Nonlinearity, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Mixing is relevant to many areas of science and engineering, including the pharmaceutical
and food industries, oceanography, atmospheric sciences and civil engineering. In all these …

Bounds on heat transfer by incompressible flows between balanced sources and sinks

B Song, G Fantuzzi, I Tobasco - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2023 - Elsevier
Internally heated convection involves the transfer of heat by fluid motion between a
distribution of sources and sinks. Focusing on the balanced case where the total heat added …

Optimal stirring strategies for passive scalar mixing

Z Lin, JL Thiffeault, CR Doering - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 - cambridge.org
We address the challenge of optimal incompressible stirring to mix an initially
inhomogeneous distribution of passive tracers. As a quantitative measure of mixing we …

Universal mixers in all dimensions

TM Elgindi, A Zlatoš - Advances in Mathematics, 2019 - Elsevier
We construct universal mixers, incompressible flows that mix arbitrarily well general
solutions to the corresponding transport equation, in all dimensions. This mixing is …

Mixing and un-mixing by incompressible flows

A Zlatoš, Y Yao - Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 2017 - ems.press
Mixing and un-mixing by incompressible flows Page 1 DOI 10.4171/JEMS/709 J. Eur. Math.
Soc. 19, 1911–1948 c European Mathematical Society 2017 Yao Yao · Andrej Zlatoš Mixing …

Lower bounds on the mix norm of passive scalars advected by incompressible enstrophy-constrained flows

G Iyer, A Kiselev, X Xu - Nonlinearity, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Consider a diffusion-free passive scalar θ being mixed by an incompressible flow u on the
torus ${\mathbb T}^ d $. Our aim is to study how well this scalar can be mixed under an …

Optimal feeding is optimal swimming for all Péclet numbers

S Michelin, E Lauga - Physics of Fluids, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Cells swimming in viscous fluids create flow fields which influence the transport of relevant
nutrients, and therefore their feeding rate. We propose a modeling approach to the problem …

Optimal stability estimates for continuity equations

C Seis - Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section …, 2018 - cambridge.org
This review paper is concerned with the stability analysis of the continuity equation in the
DiPerna–Lions setting in which the advecting velocity field is Sobolev regular. Quantitative …

Wall to wall optimal transport

P Hassanzadeh, GP Chini, CR Doering - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
The calculus of variations is employed to find steady divergence-free velocity fields that
maximize transport of a tracer between two parallel walls held at fixed concentration for one …

Maximal mixing by incompressible fluid flows

C Seis - Nonlinearity, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider a model for mixing binary viscous fluids under an incompressible flow. We
prove the impossibility of perfect mixing in finite time for flows with finite viscous dissipation …