Analysis and Control of Mixing with an Application to Micro and Macro Flow Processes

This monograph presents a unique overview of the physics, mathematics and state-of-the-art theoretical/numerical modeling and experimental investigations of mixing.

The analysis and control of mixing is of great interest because of the potential for optimizing the performance of many flow processes. This monograph presents a unique overview of the physics, mathematics and state-of-the-art theoretical/numerical modeling and experimental investigations of mixing. It approaches the subject of mixing from many angles: presents theoretical and experimental results, discusses laminar and turbulent flows, considers macro and micro scales, elaborates on purely advective and advective-diffusive flows, and considers conceptual and industrial-relevant mixing devices. This monograph provides an essential reading for graduate students and postdoctoral researches interested in the investigation of mixing, and constitutes an indispensable reference for mechanical, chemical and aeronautical engineers, and applied mathematicians in universities and industries.

Inhalt
Overview of Turbulent and Laminar Diffusion and Mixing.- Lectures on Mixing and Dynamical Systems.- On the Hyperbolic Behavior of Laminar Chaotic Flows.- Advection-diffusion in chaotic flows.- On Random Mixing.- Experimental Visualization of Lagrangian Coherent Structures Using Eulerian Averaging.- Quality Measures and Transport Properties.- Reactions in chaotic flows.- Fluid Mixing Chaotic Advection and Microarray Analysis.- The Size of Ghost Rods.- Nonlinear Preconditioning in Problems of Optimal Control for Fluid Systems.- Sensitivity of mixing optimization to the geometry of the initial scalar field.