Abstract: When particle trajectories in a fluid are chaotic, the fluid is stirred efficiently, which, in turn, enhances diffusive mixing within the fluid. Regular (nonchaotic) particle trajectories on the other hand, are not associated ...

Abstract: Motivated by observations of surface drifters in the Adriatic Sea, transport in a three-gyre system is studied with the aid of dynamical systems techniques. Particular attention is paid to the issue of intergyre transport. ...

Abstract: Applications of recent results from dynamical systems theory to the study of transport and mixing in incompressible two-dimensional flows lead to the expectation that, independent of the background potential vorticity (PV) ...