Optimal enhanced dissipation and mixing for a time-periodic, Lipschitz velocity field on ${\mathbb{T}}^2$

Abstract

We consider the advection-diffusion equation on ${\mathbb{T}}^2$ with a Lipschitz and time-periodic velocity field that alternates between two piecewise linear shear flows. We prove enhanced dissipation on the timescale $|\log \nu |$, where $\nu$ is the diffusivity parameter. This is the optimal decay rate as $\nu \to 0$ for uniformly-in-time Lipschitz velocity fields. We also establish exponential mixing for the $\nu =0$ problem.

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