Slow decay of concentration variance due to no-slip walls in chaotic mixing

Details Slow decay of concentration variance due to no-slip walls in chaotic mixing Slow decay of concentration variance due to no-slip walls in chaotic mixing

2008-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/0803.0709v1

Phys. Rev. E 78, 026211 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

17 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.78.026211

Chaotic mixing in a closed vessel is studied experimentally and numerically in different 2-D flow configurations. For a purely hyperbolic phase space, it is well-known that concentration fluctuations converge to an eigenmode of the advection-diffusion operator and decay exponentially with time. We illustrate how the unstable manifold of hyperbolic periodic points dominates the resulting persistent pattern. We show for different physical viscous flows that, in the case of a fully chaotic Poincare section, parabolic periodic points at the walls lead to slower (algebraic) decay. A persistent pattern, the backbone of which is the unstable manifold of parabolic points, can be observed. However, slow stretching at the wall forbids the rapid propagation of stretched filaments throughout the whole domain, and hence delays the formation of an eigenmode until it is no longer experimentally observable. Inspired by the baker's map, we introduce a 1-D model with a parabolic point that gives a good account of the slow decay observed in experiments. We derive a universal decay law for such systems parametrized by the rate at which a particle approaches the no-slip wall.

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