Fluid Mixing & Chaotic Advection

Tracers advected by a time-periodic flow (blinking vortex protocol) exhibit chaotic mixing — exponential stretching and folding of material lines. Toggle stirring protocols to see how chaos enhances mixing efficiency.

Vortex strength Γ 2.0
Period T 2.0
Particles 800
Step: 0 | Lyapunov stretching visible as exponential filamentation