Exponential decay of chaotically advected passive scalars in the zero diffusivity limit

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Tsang, Yue Kin ^a   Antonsen, Thomas M ^a   Ott, Edward ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC FLOW; LAGRANGIAN STRETCHING THEORY; TIME ASYMPTOTIC DECAY;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; DIFFUSION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 27144460354     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.066301     Document Type: Article

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