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To evaluate a recent hypothesis of species stratification in the Venus lower atmosphere, a time-dependent, three-dimensional model is proposed for studying turbulent mixing of many species in the Venus lower atmosphere. This model is based on fundamental physics embedding non-equilibrium thermodynamics, the Onsager classical relationship between fluxes and forces, high-pressure transport property calculation and a real-gas equation of state. The conservation equations are selfcontained, with no need for coefficients based on parametrizations to match Venus observations. The rationale for solving these equations in relatively small spatial domains at different altitudes in the Venus lower atmosphere is presented. The equations are solved in a temporal mixing layer configuration that is eminently suited to investigate turbulent mixing between two streams of different composition. The adopted simulation method is Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). A substantial database of DNS realizations is generated for mixtures of two and seven species, with different levels of initial stratification, and at the realistic conditions of pressures and temperatures in the Venus lower atmosphere at three altitudes. High density-gradient magnitude regions (HDGM) are shown to form under initial high stratification conditions, with larger gradient values obtained at low altitudes where supercritical conditions occur. Independent of the altitude lower than 50 km, under low stratification conditions, mixing produces a more uniform spatial distribution of the density than at higher initial stratification. Under low initial stratification conditions, the influence of the minor species on the global behavior of the flow seems to be negligible. At high initial stratification conditions, differences in diffusion of various species play an important role in determining the mixture characteristics. The hypothesis of chemical species separation is discussed in the light of the present results which do not support the existence of stable species separation in the lower Venus atmosphere, independent of the number of species or the altitude.
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