{
  "id": "1902.09786",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2019-02-26T08:10:23.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-02-26T08:10:23.000Z",
  "title": "Barriers to the Transport of Diffusive Scalars in Compressible Flows",
  "authors": [
    "George Haller",
    "Daniel Karrasch",
    "Florian Kogelbauer"
  ],
  "comment": "33 pages, 6 figures, submitted",
  "categories": [
    "physics.flu-dyn",
    "math.AP",
    "math.DS"
  ],
  "abstract": "Our recent work identifies material surfaces in incompressible flows that extremize the transport of an arbitrary, weakly diffusive scalar field relative to neighboring surfaces. Such barriers and enhancers of transport can be located directly from the deterministic component of the velocity field without diffusive or stochastic simulations. Here we extend these results to compressible flows and to diffusive concentration fields affected by sources or sinks, as well as by spontaneous decay. We construct diffusive transport extremizers with and without constraining them on a specific initial concentration distribution. For two-dimensional flows, we obtain explicit differential equations and a diagnostic scalar field that identify the most observable extremizers with pointwise uniform transport density. We illustrate our results by uncovering diffusion barriers and enhancers in analytic, numerical, and observational velocity fields.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2019-02-26T08:10:23.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "compressible flows",
      "diffusive scalar field relative",
      "specific initial concentration distribution",
      "work identifies material surfaces",
      "construct diffusive transport extremizers"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 33,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}