Transport in transitory, three-dimensional, Liouville flows

DOI10.1137/120870426MaRDI QIDQ4904562zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brock A. Mosovsky, J. D. Meiss

Publication date 30 January 2013

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3821

zbMATH Keywords

ABC flowHamiltonianLagrangian actionLagrangian coherent structuresLiouvilletransport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Nonautonomous smooth dynamical systems (37C60) Dynamical systems with hyperbolic orbits and sets (37D05)

Abstract: We derive an action-flux formula to compute the volumes of lobes quantifying transport between past- and future-invariant Lagrangian coherent structures of n-dimensional, transitory, globally Liouville flows. A transitory system is one that is nonautonomous only on a compact time interval. This method requires relatively little Lagrangian information about the codimension-one surfaces bounding the lobes, relying only on the generalized actions of loops on the lobe boundaries. These are easily computed since the vector fields are autonomous before and after the time-dependent transition. Two examples in three-dimensions are studied: a transitory ABC flow and a model of a microdroplet moving through a microfluidic channel mixer. In both cases the action-flux computations of transport are compared to those obtained using Monte Carlo methods.

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