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Optimal stirring for maximal mixing (NB: Batchelor Lecture)

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We study incompressible flows designed to best mix an initially inhomogeneous distribution of passive tracers as measured by a measured by a ‘mix-norm’ equivalent to the variance of a low-pass filtered image of the tracer concentration field. Unlike the scalar concentration variance, this is a useful gauge even in the absence of molecular diffusion: the mix-norm quantifies the stirring flow’s mixing property in the sense of ergodic theory. For the case of a periodic spatial domain with prescribed energy or power constraints on the stirring, we determine the flows that instantaneously maximize decay of the mix-norm, i.e., the instantaneous optimal stirring. A shell model is devised to probe the finite-time horizon optimal control problems for maximal mixing, The effect of molecular diffusion on maximal mixing is investigated where, not unexpectedly, suitable generalizations of the Bachelor scale appear prominently.

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