Topological optimization of rod-stirring devices

DOI10.1137/100791828MaRDI QIDQ3105797zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Matthew D. Finn, Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Publication date 9 January 2012

Published in SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0639

zbMATH Keywords

chaotic advectiontopological chaos

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Flow control and optimization for incompressible viscous fluids (76D55) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90)

Abstract: There are many industrial situations where rods are used to stir a fluid, or where rods repeatedly stretch a material such as bread dough or taffy. The goal in these applications is to stretch either material lines (in a fluid) or the material itself (for dough or taffy) as rapidly as possible. The growth rate of material lines is conveniently given by the topological entropy of the rod motion. We discuss the problem of optimising such rod devices from a topological viewpoint. We express rod motions in terms of generators of the braid group, and assign a cost based on the minimum number of generators needed to write the braid. We show that for one cost function -- the topological entropy per generator -- the optimal growth rate is the logarithm of the golden ratio. For a more realistic cost function,involving the topological entropy per operation where rods are allowed to move together, the optimal growth rate is the logarithm of the silver ratio, $1+sqrt2$. We show how to construct devices that realise this optimal growth, which we call silver mixers.

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