The investigation of soft materials poses many important challenges having implications for application areas that range from the design of better materials for use in engineering practice to gaining further insights into the functioning of biological organisms. In soft materials there is often an interplay between direct microstructure-level inter...
Even though the first theoretical example of chaotic advection was a three-dimensional flow (HE:non 1966), the number of theoretical studies addressing chaos and mixing in three-dimensional flows is small. One problem is that an experimentally tractable three-dimensional system that allows detailed experimental and computational investigation had n...
Most chaotic mixing experiments have been restricted to two-dimensional, time-periodic flows, and this has shaped advances in theory as well. A prototypical, bounded, three-dimensional flow with a moderate Reynolds number is presented; this system lends itself to detailed experimental observation and allows for high-precision computational inspecti...
