Typical fluid particle trajectories are sensitive to changes in their initial conditions. This
makes the assessment of flow models and observations from individual tracer samples …

This work reviews the present position of and surveys future perspectives in the physics of
chaotic advection: the field that emerged three decades ago at the intersection of fluid …

Mesoscale ocean eddies are ubiquitous coherent rotating structures of water with radial
scales on the order of 100 kilometers. Eddies play a key role in the transport and mixing of …

There has been a proliferation in the development of Lagrangian analytical methods for
detecting coherent structures in fluid flow transport, yielding a variety of qualitatively different …

The notion of a Lagrangian Coherent Structure (LCS) is by now well established as a way to
capture transient coherent transport dynamics in unsteady and aperiodic fluid flows that are …

The repartition of tracers in the ocean's upper layer on the scale of a few tens of kilometres is
largely determined by the horizontal transport induced by surface currents. Here we …

Determinations of the net community production (NCP) in the upper ocean and the particle
export production (EP) should balance over long time and large spatial scales. However …

Clusters of material at the ocean surface have been frequently observed. Such
accumulations of material play an important role in a variety of applications, from biology to …

Transport and mixing of scalar quantities in fluid flows is ubiquitous in industry and Nature.
While the more familiar turbulent flows promote efficient transport and mixing by their …

A coupled particle-tracking/ocean circulation model of an idealized eastern boundary
upwelling current is used to explore the mesoscale pathways of larval transport. We find that …