2014/03/31 by Hassan Aref, John R. Blake, Marko Budišić +20 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #nlin.CD #cond-mat.soft #math.DS #physics.flu-dyn
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/revmodphys.89.025007
published as Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 025007 (2017) · Review article; 72 pages, 55 figures
arxiv created 2017/06/14 · arxiv updated 2017/06/16
This work reviews the present position of and surveys future perspectives in the physics of chaotic advection: the field that emerged three decades ago at the intersection of fluid mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, which encompasses a range of applications with length scales ranging from micrometers to hundreds of kilometers, including systems as diverse as mixing and thermal processing of viscous fluids, microfluidics, biological flows, and oceanographic and atmospheric flows.