Fundamentals of mixing: a unified framework for mixing dynamics

Objective: Provide common high-level phenomenological and theoretical background about the new lamellar description of mixing, and first contacts with state of the art experimental and computational techniques. Programme: - Prerequisite on hydrodynamics and transfers: low Reynolds number flow, turbulence, Brownian motion, diffusion equation, relevant dimensionless numbers. - The lamellar approach of mixing: Ranz's transform, application to simple flows - Stirring protocols and concentration distributions: a consequence of the stretching protocol on the concentration distribution (sine-flow, turbulent flow, porous media, suspensions) - Experimental techniques: index-matching, laser-induced fluorescence with hands-on demonstrations - Overview on mixing applications and industrial processes: history of mixing optimization, requirements and prospective for industrial applications