Table of Contents

Overview of Turbulent and Laminar Diffusion and Mixing.- Lectures on Mixing and Dynamical Systems.- On the Hyperbolic Behavior of Laminar Chaotic Flows.- Advection-diffusion in chaotic flows.- On Random Mixing.- Experimental Visualization of Lagrangian Coherent Structures Using Eulerian Averaging.- Quality Measures and Transport Properties.- Reactions in chaotic flows.- Fluid Mixing Chaotic Advection and Microarray Analysis.- The Size of Ghost Rods.- Nonlinear Preconditioning in Problems of Optimal Control for Fluid Systems.- Sensitivity of mixing optimization to the geometry of the initial scalar field.