Talk:Chaotic mixing

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I'm a researcher on fluid mixing, and I'm planning to complement this page on chaotic mixing with a team of graduate students next week, on Friday February 3rd. So please don't be surprised if there is a large number of modifications to this page next week and shortly thereafter! EmmanuelleGouillart (talk) 16:30, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Sounds good. The article could certainly use some work and I'm sure there are many more papers that could warrant inclusion. One very interesting I found recently (though I still haven't finished it) is Wiggins and Ottino (2004), "Foundations of Chaotic Mixing", Phil. Trans. of the R. Soc. London 362: 937-970. There are probably many ideas from Ottino's book that should be included as well, although much of the material is just general fluid mechanics, I believe. There is also work by Nakamura, Thiffault and others that I think are highly relevant although perhaps not directly applicable. Here are three papers that, while they may not warrant inclusion in this article, nonetheless may be relevant to your research:

• N. Nakamura (1995), "Modified Lagrangian-Mean Diagnostics of the Stratospheric Polar Vortices. Part 1..." J. Atmos. Sci. 52(11):2096-2108.
• J.-L. Thiffeault (2003), "Advection-diffusion in Lagrangian Coordinates." Phys. Lett. A 309:415-422.
• A. K. Pattanayak (2001), "Characterizing the metastable balance between chaos and diffusion." Physica D 148:1-19.

Good Luck! Peteymills (talk) 14:49, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Oops, I see Thiffeault is a colleague of yours, so I guess I don't have to advertise his publications! Peteymills (talk) 14:53, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

It might also be worth distinquishing between the Lagrangian coordinates and the Eulerian coordinates. In Ottino, this is done through caps, ${\displaystyle {\vec {X}}}$, versus lower-case, ${\displaystyle {\vec {x}}}$. Peteymills (talk) 17:10, 26 March 2012 (UTC)