Animation of Chaotic Mixing by a Backward Poincare Cell-Map Method.

Develops a backward poincare cell-mapping method for animating chaotic fluid mixing. Rotation of the secondary flow of incompressible fluids in a curved pipe; Methods for probing the chaotic fluid mixing. A Backward Poincare cell-mapping (BPCM) method has been developed for animating chaotic fluid mixing. The chaotic mixing field considered is induced by periodically rotating the secondary flow of incompressible fluids in a curved pipe. The pipe's cross-section is transformed into a cell space where each cell is initially assigned with a color code and mapped by integrating the velocity field forward in time. The mixing process is thus animated efficiently with each cell being painted with its color on a computer screen. We propose the backward Poincare cell-mapping instead of direct Poincare cell-mapping as a useful tool for probing the chaotic fluid mixing and for animating the phase deformation of nonlinear dynamical systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]