A closed theoretical expression for concentration variance in scalar mixing fronts driven by smooth chaotic flows is derived by balancing dispersion and diffusion at an intermediate scale and matches DNS results without fitting parameters.
Pierrehumbert, Tracer microstructure in the large-eddy dominated regime, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 4, 1091 (1994), special Issue: Chaos Applied to Fluid Mixing
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Mixing Fronts in Smooth Chaotic Flows
A closed theoretical expression for concentration variance in scalar mixing fronts driven by smooth chaotic flows is derived by balancing dispersion and diffusion at an intermediate scale and matches DNS results without fitting parameters.