Unifying ideas on mixing and atomization

Emmanuel Villermaux (1)

1 IRPHE - Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre

The mechanisms building the overall concentration distribution in a scalar mixture, and the drops in a spray, are examined successively. In both cases, the distributions belong to a unique family of distributions stable by self-convolution, the signature of the aggregation process from which they originate.

Emmanuel Villermaux. Unifying ideas on mixing and atomization. New Journal of Physics, 2004, 6 (1), pp.125. ⟨10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/125⟩. ⟨hal-00014862⟩