Diffusion and mixing in fluid flow (Q2389123)

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Diffusion and mixing in fluid flow
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    Diffusion and mixing in fluid flow (English)
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    14 July 2009
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    An enhancement of diffusive mixing on a compact Riemannian manifold \(M\) by a fast incompressible flow is studied in the paper. The incompressible flow \(u\) on \(M\) and positive parameter \(A\) define the scalar function \(\varphi^A(x,t)\) satisfying the problem \[ \frac{\partial}{\partial t}\varphi^A(x,t)+Au\cdot\nabla\varphi^A(x,t)-\Delta\varphi^A(x,t)=0,\quad \varphi^A(x,0)=\varphi_0(x), \] where \(\Delta\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on \(M\), \(\nabla\) is the covariant derivative. The behavior of the function \(\varphi^A(x,t)\) for large \(A\) at a fixed time \(\tau>0\) is the topic of the paper. It is proved that for every \(\tau>0\) and \(\delta>0\) the inequality \[ \| \varphi^A(\cdot,\tau)-\bar{\varphi}\|_{L^2(M)}<\delta \] holds for a large number \(A\) if and only if the operator \(u\cdot\nabla\) has no eigenfunctions in \(H^1(M)\), other than the constant function. Here \(\varphi_0\in L^2(M)\), \(\|\varphi_0\|_{L^2(M)}=1\), \[ \bar{\varphi}=\frac{1}{|M|}\int\limits_M\varphi_0(x)\,d\mu. \] The proofs are based on a general criterion for the decay of the semigroup generated by an operator of the form \(\Gamma+iAL\) with a negative unbounded self-adjoint operator \(\Gamma\) and a self-adjoint operator \(L\).
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    diffusive mixing
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    incompressible flow
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    Riemannian manifold
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    compact Riemannian manifold
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    fast incompressible flow
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