Robust fluid mixing through topological chaos

澳大利亚化工和塑料行业的年营业额超过200亿美元，员工超过77,000人；流体混合是该行业的基础，但该行业被认为在这一关键领域的研究和开发投资不足。此外，生物技术和下一代智能材料等前沿技术也至关重要地依赖于流体混合。该项目旨在为混合器的设计评估一种新的范例(拓扑混沌)，以提供从微观到工业规模的更好和更坚固的混合器。

The Australian chemicals and plastics industry has an annual turnover of over $20 billion and employs over 77,000 people; fluid mixing is fundamental to this industry, yet the industry is recognised as underinvesting in research and development in this essential area. Furthermore, frontier technologies such as biotechnology and the next generation of smart materials also crucially rely on fluid mixing. This project aims to evaluate a new paradigm (topological chaos) for the design of mixers, to provide better and more robust mixers that work from microscopic to industrial scales.