Transport barriers in complex turbulent flows: formation, detection and characterization

复杂流体流动中的输运障碍在自然界中普遍存在，然而数学和数值方法迄今为止还无法解决湍流存在下的这个问题。该项目旨在进行第一个系统的实验室研究，传输屏障的产生，控制和相互作用，以揭示湍流在流体随机传输中的作用。它将开发运输障碍建模的新方法，这将为处理拉格朗日运输的专家提供运输障碍建模和表征的新工具。

Barriers to transport in complex fluid flows are ubiquitous in nature, yet mathematical and numerical approaches have so far been unable to solve this problem in the presence of turbulence. This project aims to undertake the first systematic laboratory study of transport barrier generation, control and interactions to reveal the role of turbulence in the stochastic transport in fluids. It will develop new methods of transport barrier modelling which will equip specialists dealing with Lagrangian transport with new tools for the transport barrier modelling and characterisation.