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We establish explicit lower bounds for advection-diffusion equations in three settings: a polynomial $\dot H^{-1}$ bound for inviscid shears with $u\in L^\infty_t W^{1,1}_y$, a uniform positive lower bound on the mixing scale for diffusive…
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