3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Mixing induced by microswimmers as probed by mutual information
Yihong Shi, Yuto Hosaka, Andrej Vilfan +1
We investigate fluid mixing induced by microswimmers using mutual information as a global, information-theoretic measure of mixing efficiency. For a two-dimensional squirmer model…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Information-optimal mixing at low Reynolds number
Luca Cocconi, Yihong Shi, Andrej Vilfan
Mutual information between particle positions before and after mixing provides a universal assumption-free measure of mixing efficiency at low Reynolds number which accounts for th…
physics.flu-dyn2023
Mutual information as a measure of mixing efficiency in viscous fluids
Yihong Shi, Ramin Golestanian, Andrej Vilfan
Because of the kinematic reversibility of the Stokes equation, fluid mixing at the microscale requires an interplay between advection and diffusion. Here we introduce mutual inform…