Stretching and folding versus cutting and shuffling: An illustrated perspective on mixing and deformations of continua

Details Stretching and folding versus cutting and shuffling: An illustrated perspective on mixing and deformations of continua Stretching and folding versus cutting and shuffling: An illustrated perspective on mixing and deformations of continua

2010-10-11

arxiv.org/abs/1010.2256v2

American Journal of Physics 79 (4), 2011, pp. 359-367

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

REVTeX 4.1, 9 pages, 3 figures; v2 corrects some misprints. The following article appeared in the American Journal of Physics

Scientific paper

10.1119/1.3533213

We compare and contrast two types of deformations inspired by mixing applications -- one from the mixing of fluids (stretching and folding), the other from the mixing of granular matter (cutting and shuffling). The connection between mechanics and dynamical systems is discussed in the context of the kinematics of deformation, emphasizing the equivalence between stretches and Lyapunov exponents. The stretching and folding motion exemplified by the baker's map is shown to give rise to a dynamical system with a positive Lyapunov exponent, the hallmark of chaotic mixing. On the other hand, cutting and shuffling does not stretch. When an interval exchange transformation is used as the basis for cutting and shuffling, we establish that all of the map's Lyapunov exponents are zero. Mixing, as quantified by the interfacial area per unit volume, is shown to be exponentially fast when there is stretching and folding, but linear when there is only cutting and shuffling. We also discuss how a simple computational approach can discern stretching in discrete data.

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