On the role of initial velocities in pair dispersion in a microfluidic chaotic flow
Elastic turbulence, a random-in-time flow, can drive efficient mixing in microfluidics. Using a 3D particle tracking method, the authors show that the smoothness assumption breaks at scales far smaller than believed and the ballistic pair dispersion holds over much longer distances than expected.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00389-8 |