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Experiments including confined mixtures in two and three dimensions and Reynolds numbers Re ranging from 0.1 to 104 show that the evolution mechanism of a scalar mixture relaxing towards uniformity is a random aggregation process essentially independent of the Reynolds number. The rate of the process is related to the topology of the stirring motions which differs depending on the dimensionality of space.
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Villermaux, E. (2004). Mixing. In: Smits, A.J. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Reynolds Number Scaling in Turbulent Flow. Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0997-3_37
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