Formation of coherent structures by fluid inertia in three-dimensional laminar flows

Z Pouransari, MFM Speetjens… - Journal of fluid …, 2010 - cambridge.org
Mixing under laminar flow conditions is key to a wide variety of industrial fluid systems of
size extending from micrometres to metres. Profound insight into three-dimensional laminar …

Topological chaos and mixing in a three-dimensional channel flow

J Chen, MA Stremler - Physics of Fluids, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
Passive mixing is investigated in a mathematical model of steady, three-dimensional,
laminar flow through a rectangular channel. Efficient stirring is achieved by imposing …

Lagrangian transport characteristics of a class of three-dimensional inline-mixing flows with fluid inertia

MFM Speetjens, EA Demissie, G Metcalfe… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Laminar mixing by the inline-mixing principle is a key to many industrial fluids-engineering
systems of size extending from micrometers to meters. However, insight into fundamental …

Inertia-induced coherent structures in a time-periodic viscous mixing flow

MFM Speetjens, HJH Clercx, GJF van Heijst - Physics of Fluids, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Inertia-induced changes in transport properties of an incompressible viscous time-periodic
flow due to fluid inertia (nonzero Reynolds numbers Re⁠) are studied in terms of the …

Chaotic mixing in a bounded three-dimensional flow

GO Fountain, DV Khakhar, I Mezić… - Journal of Fluid …, 2000 - cambridge.org
Even though the first theoretical example of chaotic advection was a three-dimensional flow
(Hénon 1966), the number of theoretical studies addressing chaos and mixing in three …

Three-dimensional chaotic advection in a cylindrical domain.

MFM Speetjens - 2004 - elibrary.ru
The work presented in this thesis encompasses numerical and experimental investigations
on three-dimensional (3 D) chaotic advection in a cylindrical domain under laminar flow …

Scalar transport in inline mixers with spatially periodic flows

O Baskan, H Rajaei, MFM Speetjens, HJH Clercx - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Spatially persisting patterns form during the downstream evolution of passive scalars in
three-dimensional (3D) spatially periodic flows due to the coupled effect of stretching and …

Structure development during chaotic mixing in the journal bearing flow

OS Galaktionov, PD Anderson, GWM Peters - Physics of Fluids, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
Laminar mixing in the two-dimensional time-periodic Stokes flows between eccentric
cylinders [journal bearing flow (JBF)] is studied using the extended mapping method …

Structural stability in two‐dimensional model flows: Lagrangian and Eulerian turbulence

TJ Danielson, JM Ottino - Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics, 1990 - pubs.aip.org
A two‐dimensional approximation of the Navier–Stokes equations illustrates a specific
instance of transition from Lagrangian to Eulerian turbulence. As the Reynolds number (Re) …

Quantification of reactive mixing in laminar microflows

A Vikhansky - Physics of Fluids, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
We propose numerical methods for the estimation of the yield of reaction in laminar flows.
The methods are based on backward tracking of tracer particles. In the case of fast reaction …