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Diffusion and mixing of passive impurities in a linear velocity field

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It is shown that the mixing process is described by a Lagrangian Green's function. The latter is obtained at both the dynamical and the statistical levels, which permits application of the results to turbulent media.

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  1. Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, Minsk

    V. P. Kabashnikov & A. A. Kurskov

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 924–931, December, 1982.

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Kabashnikov, V.P., Kurskov, A.A. Diffusion and mixing of passive impurities in a linear velocity field. Journal of Engineering Physics 43, 1343–1349 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00824791

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