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 …

This paper presents a novel optimal control problem, referred to as distributed optimal
control, that is applicable to multiscale dynamical systems comprised of numerous …

This paper presents a distributed optimal control approach for managing omnidirectional
sensor networks deployed to cooperatively track moving targets in a region of interest …

Mixing at macroscopic scales is very common in various industrial applications. Industrial
processes can bring into play highly viscous or shear-sensitive fluids, and the mixing …

Although potential flows are irrotational, Lagrangian chaos can occur when these are
unsteady, with rapid global mixing observed upon flow parameter optimization. What is …

Heat transfer in fluid flows traditionally is examined in terms of temperature field and heat-
transfer coefficients at non-adiabatic walls. However, heat transfer may alternatively be …

Heat transfer in essence is the transport of thermal energy along certain paths in a similar
way as fluid motion is the transport of fluid parcels along fluid paths. This similarity admits …

Heat transfer in fluid flows traditionally is examined in terms of temperature fields and heat-
transfer coefficients. However, heat transfer may alternatively be considered as the transport …

This dissertation presents a novel distributed optimal control (DOC) problem formulation that
is applicable to multiscale dynamical systems comprised of numerous interacting systems …

Heat transfer in essence is the transport of thermal energy along certain paths in a similar
way as fluid motion is the transport of fluid parcels along fluid paths. This similarity admits …