Chaos, symmetry, and self-similarity: exploiting order and disorder in mixing processes.
Fluid mixing is a successful application of chaos. Theory anticipates the coexistence of order and disorder-symmetry and chaos-as well as self-similarity and multifractality arising from repeated stretching and folding. Experiments and computations, in turn, provide a point of confluence and a visual analog for chaotic behavior, multiplicative processes, and scaling behavior. All these concepts have conceptual engineering counterparts: examples arise in the context of flow classification, design of mixing devices, enhancement of transport processes, and controlled structure formation in two-phase systems.
Ottino
J M
JM
Muzzio
F J
FJ
Tjahjadi
M
M
Franjione
J G
JG
Jana
S C
SC
Kusch
H A
HA