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In this study, we analyse ‘magneto-Stokes’ flow, a fundamental magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow that shares the cylindrical-annular geometry of the Taylor–Couette cell but uses applied electromagnetic forces to circulate a free-surface layer of electrolyte at low Reynolds numbers. The first complete, analytical solution for time-dependent magneto-Stokes flow is presented and validated with coupled laboratory and numerical experiments. Three regimes are distinguished (shallow-layer, transitional and deep-layer flow regimes), and their influence on the efficiency of microscale mixing is clarified. The solution in the shallow-layer limit belongs to a newly identified class of MHD potential flows, and thus induces mixing without the aid of axial vorticity. We show that these shallow-layer magneto-Stokes flows can still augment mixing in distinct Taylor dispersion and advection-dominated mixing regimes. The existence of enhanced mixing across all three distinguished flow regimes is predicted by asymptotic scaling laws and supported by three-dimensional numerical simulations. Mixing enhancement is initiated with the least electromagnetic forcing in channels with order-unity depth-to-gap-width ratios. If the strength of the electromagnetic forcing is not a constraint, then shallow-layer flows can still yield the shortest mixing times in the advection-dominated limit. Our robust description of momentum evolution and mixing of passive tracers makes the annular magneto-Stokes system fit for use as an MHD reference flow.
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Quantifying the Dissipation Enhancement of Cellular Flows
We study the dissipation enhancement by cellular flows. Previous work by Iyer, Xu, and Zlato\v{s} produces a family of cellular flows that can enhance dissipation by an arbitrarily large amount. We improve this result by providing quantitative bounds on the dissipation enhancement in terms of the flow amplitude, cell size and diffusivity. Explicitly we show that the \emph{mixing time} is bounded by the exit time from one cell when the flow amplitude is large enough, and by the reciprocal of the effective diffusivity when the flow amplitude is small. This agrees with the optimal heuristics. We also prove a general result relating the \emph{dissipation time} of incompressible flows to the \emph{mixing time}. The main idea behind the proof is to study the dynamics probabilistically and construct a successful coupling.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2108080
- PAR ID:
- 10539656
- Publisher / Repository:
- SIAM
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
- Volume:
- 55
- Issue:
- 6
- ISSN:
- 0036-1410
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 6496 to 6516
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Enhanced dissipation mixing time cellular flow
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1137/22M1524576
