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We study the problem of optimal mixing of a passive scalar $\rho$ advected by an incompressible flow on the two dimensional unit square. The scalar $\rho$ solves the continuity equation with a divergence-free velocity field $u$ with…
We study the problem of the optimal mixing of a passive scalar under the action of an incompressible flow in two space dimensions. The scalar solves the continuity equation with a divergence-free velocity field, which satisfies a bound in…
Mixing a passive scalar field by stirring can be measured in a variety of ways including tracer particle dispersion, via the flux-gradient relationship, or by suppression of scalar concentration variations in the presence of inhomogeneous…
Mixing effect in a stratified fluid is considered and examined. Euler equations for incompressible fluid stratified by a gravity field are applied to state a mathematical problem and describe the effect. It is found out that a system of…
We study the Euler equations describing the motion of an incompressible fluid on the cubic torus with real initial data. We construct solutions on the Fourier side which display a sudden loss of regularity within finite time even for highly…
We consider steady solutions to the incompressible Euler equations in a two-dimensional channel with rigid walls. The flow consists of two periodic layers of constant vorticity separated by an unknown interface. Using global bifurcation…
A passive scalar is advected by a velocity field, with a nonuniform spatial source that maintains concentration inhomogeneities. For example, the scalar could be temperature with a source consisting of hot and cold spots, such that the mean…
We investigate the mixing properties of scalars stirred by spatially smooth, divergence-free flows and maintained by a steady source-sink distribution. We focus on the spatial variation of the scalar field, described by the {\it dissipation…
We study a passive scalar equation on the two-dimensional torus, where the advecting velocity field is given by a cellular flow with a randomly moving center. We prove that the passive scalar undergoes mixing at a deterministic exponential…
Chaotic variations in flow speed up mixing of scalar fields via intensified stirring. This paper addresses the statistical properties of a passive scalar field mixing in a regular shear flow with random fluctuations against its background.…
An analytical linear solution of the fully compressible Euler equations is found, in the particular case of a stationary two dimensional flow that passes over an orographic feature with small height-width ratio. A method based on the…
Exploring the general analytical solutions to the Euler equations for ideal fluids holds significant theoretical and practical importance. The steady flows in two-dimensional spaces are considered whether there is an analytical solution in…
In many astrophysical environments, mixing of heavy elements occurs in the presence of a supersonic turbulent velocity field. Here we carry out the first systematic numerical study of such passive scalar mixing in isothermal supersonic…
We derive an analytical solution for the one-point distribution of a passive scalar in decaying homogeneous turbulence, in the limit of strong turbulence (high Re, fixed Schmidt number). Velocity statistics are governed by the Euler…
A kinetic model with flexible velocities is presented for solving the multi-component Euler equations. The model employs a two-velocity formulation in 1D and a three-velocity formulation in 2D. In 2D, the velocities are aligned with the…
A model of the three-dimensional rotating compressible Euler equations on the cubed sphere is presented. The model uses a mixed mimetic spectral element discretization which allows for the exact exchanges of kinetic, internal and potential…
We consider the inhomogeneous (or density dependent) incompressible Euler equations in a three-dimensional periodic domain. We construct density $\varrho$ and velocity $u$ such that, for any $\alpha<1/7$, both of them are $\alpha $-H\"older…
Consider a diffusion-free passive scalar $\theta$ being mixed by an incompressible flow $u$ on the torus $\mathbb{T}^d$. Our aim is to study how well this scalar can be mixed under an enstrophy constraint on the advecting velocity field.Our…
Using the $H^{-1}$ norm as a measure of mixing, we prove that 2d Euler flows on the torus mix passive scalars at most exponentially. The mixing rate is bounded linearly by the BMO norm of the vorticity (and thus by its $L^\infty$ norm). We…
We study passive scalar mixing by parallel shear flows in the presence of weak molecular diffusion. We recover the sharp uniform-in-diffusivity mixing rate for shear flows with finitely many critical points, recently proven in [1]. Our…