Patchiness: A New Diagnostic for Lagrangian Trajectory Analysis in Time-Dependent Fluid Flows

DOI10.1142/S0218127498000875zbMath0962.76537OpenAlexW2058297643MaRDI QIDQ4936218

Igor Mezić, Naresh K. Malhotra, Stephen Wiggins

Publication date: 24 January 2000

Published in: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218127498000875

zbMATH Keywords

patchinesscellular flowdispersion of passive tracersmeandering jetLagrangian particle motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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