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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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Víctor Navarro-Fernández , Christian Seis

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Gautam Iyer , Alexander Kiselev , Xiaoqian Xu

We consider the advection-diffusion equation on $\mathbb{T}^2$ with a Lipschitz and time-periodic velocity field that alternates between two piecewise linear shear flows. We prove enhanced dissipation on the timescale $|\log \nu|$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Tarek M. Elgindi , Kyle Liss , Jonathan C. Mattingly

Incompressible flows can be effective mixers by appropriately advecting a passive tracer to produce small filamentation length scales. In addition, diffusion is generally perceived as beneficial to mixing due to its ability to homogenise a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-20 Christopher J. Miles , Charles R. Doering

An upper bound on the mixing efficiency is derived for a passive scalar under the influence of advection and diffusion with a body source. For a given stirring velocity field, the mixing efficiency is measured in terms of an equivalent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-12-12 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Charles R. Doering , John D. Gibbon

We study the mixing and dissipation properties of the advection-diffusion equation with diffusivity $0 < \kappa \ll 1$ and advection by a class of random velocity fields on $\mathbb T^d$, $d=\{2,3\}$, including solutions of the 2D…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Jacob Bedrossian , Alex Blumenthal , Samuel Punshon-Smith

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alexandros Alexakis , Alexandra Tzella

We study mixing for a divergence-free passive vector field $u$ transported by another divergence-free vector field $U$, where $u$ evolves according to $ \partial_t u + (U \cdot \nabla) u + \nabla p = 0.$ In recent years, a lot of attention…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Anuj Kumar , Franziska Weber

This paper is concerned with the inhomogeneous incompressible Euler system. We establish a Duchon--Robert type approximation theorem for the distribution describing the local energy flux of bounded solutions. The velocity field is assumed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Marco Inversi , Alessandro Violini

We performed a numerical study of the efficiency of mixing by alternating horizontal and vertical shear ``wedge'' flows on the two-dimensional torus. Our results suggest that except in cases where each individual flow is applied for only a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Li-Tien Cheng , Frederick Rajasekaran , Kin Yau James Wong , Andrej Zlatos

This paper investigates enhanced dissipation for a passive scalar advected by "very rough" horizontal shear flows, described by an advection-diffusion equation on the 2D torus. The authors extend results of Galeati and Gubinelli (2023) to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Marco Romito , Leonardo Roveri

In this paper we develop and use the two-timing method for a systematic study of a scalar advection caused by a general oscillating velocity field. Mathematically, we study and classify the multiplicity of distinguished limits and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-26 Vladimir A Vladimirov

We study diffusion and mixing in different linear fluid dynamics models, mainly related to incompressible flows. In this setting, mixing is a purely advective effect which causes a transfer of energy to high frequencies. When diffusion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Michele Coti Zelati , Matias G. Delgadino , Tarek M. Elgindi

We consider the top Lyapunov exponent associated to the advection-diffusion and linearised Navier-Stokes equations on the two-dimensional torus. The velocity field is given by the stochastic Navier-Stokes equations driven by a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Martin Hairer , Sam Punshon-Smith , Tommaso Rosati , Jaeyun Yi

We quantitatively study the interaction between diffusion and mixing in both the continuous, and discrete time setting. In discrete time, we consider a mixing dynamical system interposed with diffusion. In continuous time, we consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Yuanyuan Feng , Gautam Iyer

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-08 Zhi Lin , Katarína Bodová , Charles R. Doering

The diffusive properties in velocity fields whose small scales are parameterized by non $\delta$-correlated noise is investigated using multiscale technique. The analytical expression of the eddy diffusivity tensor is found for a 2D steady…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Castiglione , A. Crisanti

The volume of a Wiener sausage constructed from a diffusion process with periodic, mean-zero, divergence-free velocity field, in dimension 3 or more, is shown to have a non-random and positive asymptotic rate of growth. This is used to…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-26 P. H. Haynes , V. H. Hoang , J. R. Norris , K. C. Zygalakis

We consider the Navier-Stokes equation on a two dimensional torus with a random force which is white noise in time, and excites only a finite number of modes. The number of excited modes depends on the viscosity $\nu$, and grows like…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bricmont , A. Kupiainen , R. Lefevere

Motivated in part by the work of Vanneste and Byatt-Smith, we study mixing and enhanced dissipation for the advection-diffusion equation with velocity field $\mathbf{u}(x,y,t)=(\sin(y-ct),0)$, a shear flow whose profile translates rigidly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Johannes Benthaus , Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Camilla Nobili
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