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 …

Explanations for the patchy distribution of marine phytoplankton are critically reviewed with
the focus on the role played by lateral advection and mixing. Generating mechanisms for …

Chemical and biological processes often take place in fluid flows. Many of them, like
environmental or microfluidical ones, generate filamentary patterns which have a fractal …

Many chemical and biological processes take place in fluid environments in constant
motion? chemical reactions in the atmosphere, biological population dynamics in the ocean …

Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations have shown that the outcome of cyclic
competition is significantly affected by the spatial distribution of the competitors. Short-range …

As of today, the most credible scientific paradigm pertaining to the origin of life on Earth is
undoubtedly the RNA World scenario. It is built on the assumption that catalytically active …

We review selected recent developments on the role of chaotic advection in the dynamics of
nonpassive particles. This topic is fundamental to understanding or controlling transport of …

The problem of information integration andresistance to the invasion of parasitic mutants in
prebiotic replicator systemsis a notorious issue of research on the origin of life. Almost all …

Experiments are presented on pattern formation in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction
in a blinking vortex flow. Mixing in this flow is chaotic, with nearby tracers separating …

We consider a predator–prey model of planktonic population dynamics, of excitable
character, living in an open and chaotic fluid flow, ie, a state of fluid motion in a region from …