The Mathematical Foundations of Mixing

A unifying framework for understanding many types of fluid mixing, for researchers.

Preface; 1. Mixing: physical issues; 2. Linked twist maps; 3. The ergodic hierarchy; 4. Existence of a horseshoe; 5. Hyperbolicity; 6. The ergodic partition for toral LTMs; 7. Ergodicity and Bernoulli for TLTMs; 8. Linked twist maps on the plane; 9. Further directions and open problems; Bibliography; Index.