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EPL
Volume 97, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
EPL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/97/14002
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We show that the purely convective mapping matrix approach provides an extremely versatile tool to study advection-diffusion processes for extremely large Peclet values (similar to 10(8) and higher). This is made possible due to the coarse-grained approximation that introduces numerical diffusion, the intensity of which depends in a simple way on grid resolution. This observation permits to address fundamental physical issues associated with chaotic mixing in the presence of diffusion. Specifically, we show that in partially chaotic flows, the dominant decay exponent of the advection diffusion propagator will eventually decay as Pe(-1) in the presence of quasiperiodic regions of finite measure, no matter how small they are. Examples of 2d and 3d partially chaotic flows are discussed. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2012
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