Mixing in Globally Chaotic Flows

DOI10.1142/S0218348X9700036XMaRDI QIDQ3841453zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. M. Hobbs, Mario Alvarez, Fernando J. Muzzio

Publication date 14 December 1999

Published in Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218348X9700036X

zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremcentral spectrum of stretching intensitiesfoldingGaussian distributioninvariant limitKenics static mixerprobability density functionsine-flowtracer mixing simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

Review text

The first half of this paper reviews mixing in chaotic flows. The sine-flow is employed as a two-dimensional example to demonstrate techniques used for characterizing mixing behaviour. Several manifestations of self-similarity are readily apparent. The results of tracer mixing simulations demonstrate a self-similar, iterative development of partially mixed structures in the flow. The spatial distribution of mixing intensities present in the flow is examined via computation of stretching. The probability density function of the logarithm of stretching values reveals a Gaussian distribution over the central spectrum of stretching intensities for the globally chaotic case, but contains two peaks for a case with coexisting chaotic and regular regions. The second half of the paper focuses on a real, three-dimensional mixing system: the Kenics static mixer. Two alternate configurations of the Kenics mixer are analyzed: one in which elements have alternating right-handed and left-handed twist (R-L), and a second in which all elements have right-handed twist (R-R). Poincaré sections as well as experiments indicate that the R-L configuration is globally chaotic, while the R-R configuration contains significant segregated, regular regions. Stretching histories of material elements in the two flows are computed, once again revealing self-similar distributions that can be collapsed to an invariant limit using a scaling based on the central limit theorem.

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