Stirring up trouble: Multi-scale mixing measures for steady scalar sources

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-164

  Shaw, Tiffany A ^a   Thiffeault, Jean Luc ^b   Doering, Charles R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Diffusion; Eddy diffusion; Mixing; Stirring; Turbulent diffusion

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STIRLING CYCLE;

EDDY DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; QUASI-STATIC MODEL;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250753900     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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