The kinematics of mixing stretching, chaos, and transport

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Flow, trajectories and deformation 3. Conservation equations, change of frame, and vorticity 4. Computation of stretching and efficiency 5. Chaos in dynamical systems 6. Chaos in Hamiltonian systems 7. Mixing and chaos in two-dimensional time-periodic flows 8. Mixing and chaos in three-dimensional and open flows 9. Epilogue: diffusion and reaction in lamellar structures and microstructures in chaotic flows Appendix List of frequently used symbols References Author index Subject index.