The kinematics of mixing : stretching, chaos, and transport / J.M. Ottino.

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Ottino, J. M. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Description
xiv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    This book attempts to provide a unified and systematic account of the kinematics for the mixing of fluids. The point of view adopted is that fluid mixing can be regarded, in some respects, as the efficient stretching and folding of material lines and surfaces.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Flow, trajectories, and deformation
    • Conservation equations, change of frame, and vorticity
    • Computation of stretching and efficiency
    • Chaos in dynamical systems
    • Chaos in Hamiltonian systems
    • Mixing and chaos on two-dimensional and time-periodic flows
    • Mixing and chaos in three-dimensional open flows
    • Epilogue: diffusion and reaction in lamellar structures and microstructures in chaotic flows.
    ISBN
    • 0521363357
    • 9780521363358
    • 0521368782 ((pbk.))
    • 9780521368780 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    88030253
    OCLC
    18588476
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