[HTML][HTML] Extracting quasi-steady Lagrangian transport patterns from the ocean circulation: An application to the Gulf of Mexico

R Duran, FJ Beron-Vera, MJ Olascoaga - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We construct a climatology of Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs)—the concealed
skeleton that shapes transport—with a twelve-year-long data-assimilative simulation of the …

Chaotic Lagrangian transport and mixing in the ocean

SV Prants - The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2014 - Springer
Dynamical systems theory approach has been successfully used in physical oceanography
for the last two decades to study mixing and transport of water masses in the ocean. The …

[HTML][HTML] On the Lagrangian dynamics of saliva particles during normal mouth breathing

WR Oaks, J Craig, C Duran, F Sotiropoulos… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The flow and saliva particulate transport dynamics during normal human breathing through
the mouth are simulated numerically using an Eulerian large-eddy simulation (LES) …

Lagrangian approach for modal analysis of fluid flows

VJ Shinde, DV Gaitonde - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Common modal decomposition techniques for flow-field analysis, data-driven modelling and
flow control, such as proper orthogonal decomposition and dynamic mode decomposition …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of the 2003 foss barge-point wells oil spill: A comparison between BLOSOM and GNOME oil spill models

R Duran, L Romeo, J Whiting, J Vielma, K Rose… - Journal of Marine …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory's (NETL's)
Blowout and Spill Occurrence Model (BLOSOM), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …

Finite-time braiding exponents

M Budišić, JL Thiffeault - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Topological entropy of a dynamical system is an upper bound for the sum of positive
Lyapunov exponents; in practice, it is strongly indicative of the presence of mixing in a …

Impact of windage on ocean surface Lagrangian coherent structures

MR Allshouse, GN Ivey, RJ Lowe, NL Jones… - Environmental Fluid …, 2017 - Springer
Windage, the additional direct, wind-induced drift of material floating at the free surface of
the ocean, plays a crucial role in the surface transport of biological and contaminant …

Lagrangian coherent track initialization

AR Khojasteh, Y Yang, D Heitz, S Laizet - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Advances in time-resolved three-dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry (4D-PTV)
techniques have consistently revealed more accurate Lagrangian particle motions. A novel …

The particle tracking and analysis toolbox (PaTATO) for Matlab

E Fredj, DF Carlson, Y Amitai… - Limnology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Lagrangian particle tracking and Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS) analysis tools aid in
the studies of fluid flow and are especially helpful in understanding the role of transport in …

Lagrangian Characterization of Surface Transport From the Equatorial Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea Using Climatological Lagrangian Coherent Structures and Self …

ME Allende‐Arandía, R Duran… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents an assessment of the transport of suspended material by surface ocean
currents, which have a critical role in determining the connectivity and distribution of living …