03 Jun 2026
Time: 14:50  - 15:40

Location: Spiegelgasse 1, Seminarraum 00.003

An Afternoon of Fluid Dynamics: Augusto Del Zotto (University of Zurich)

Exponential mixing and enhanced dissipation on the unit sphere via Rossby-Haurwitz flows

We exhibit an incompressible velocity field on the two-dimensional unit sphere such that the time evolution of any mean-free initial data passively advected by the velocity field is mixed exponentially fast. In the presence of molecular diffusivity, we show that the solution to the associated advection-diffusion equation experiences enhanced dissipation with optimal decay rates. The mixing velocity field is an alternating combination of two Rossby-Haurwitz flows with random amplitudes and constitutes a spherical analogue to the sine shear-alternating example of Pierrehumbert. This is a joint work with Marc Nualart (ICMAT). 


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