Lagrangian coherent structures

G Haller - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Lagrangian based methods for coherent structure detection

MR Allshouse, T Peacock - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Mixing and transport by ciliary carpets: a numerical study

Y Ding, JC Nawroth, MJ McFall-Ngai… - Journal of Fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We use a three-dimensional computational model to study the fluid transport and mixing due
to the beating of an infinite array of cilia. In accord with recent experiments, we observe two …

Transverse mixing in three‐dimensional nonstationary anisotropic heterogeneous porous media

OA Cirpka, G Chiogna, M Rolle… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater plumes originating from continuously emitting sources are typically controlled
by transverse mixing between the plume and reactants in the ambient solution. In two …

Studying Lagrangian dynamics of turbulence using on-demand fluid particle tracking in a public turbulence database

H Yu, K Kanov, E Perlman, J Graham… - Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
A recently developed public turbulence database system (http://turbulence. pha. jhu. edu)
provides new ways to access large datasets generated from high-performance computer …

Experimental and computational investigation of chaotic advection mixing in laminar rectangular stirred tanks

A Li, Y Yao, X Tang, P Liu, Q Zhang, Q Li, P Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The phenomenon of chaotic advection mixing in laminar stirred tanks, particularly when
handling high-viscosity fluids, represents a common and challenging issue in various …

Detecting Lagrangian coherent structures from sparse and noisy trajectory data

S Mowlavi, M Serra, E Maiorino… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Many complex flows such as those arising from the collective motion of ocean plastics in
geophysics or motile cells in biology are characterized by sparse and noisy trajectory …

Transport efficiency of metachronal waves in 3D cilium arrays immersed in a two-phase flow

S Chateau, J Favier, U D'ortona… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
This work reports the formation and characterization of antipleptic and symplectic
metachronal waves in 3D cilium arrays immersed in a two-fluid environment, with a viscosity …

Helical flow in three‐dimensional nonstationary anisotropic heterogeneous porous media

G Chiogna, OA Cirpka, M Rolle… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the topology of three‐dimensional steady‐state flow fields is useful to
describe the physical processes controlling the deformation of solute plumes and …

Differential geometry perspective of shape coherence and curvature evolution by finite-time nonhyperbolic splitting

T Ma, EM Bollt - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2014 - SIAM
Mixing and coherence are essential topics for understanding and describing transport in
fluid dynamics and other nonautonomous dynamical systems. Only recently has the idea of …