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A structure-preserving scheme for computing effective diffusivity and anomalous diffusion phenomena of random flows

Numerical Analysis 2024-05-30 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the diffusion behavior of particles moving in stochastic flows under a structure-preserving scheme. We compute the effective diffusivity for normal diffusive random flows and establish the power law between spatial and temporal variables for cases with anomalous diffusion phenomena. From a Lagrangian approach, we separate the corresponding stochastic differential equations (SDEs) into sub-problems and construct a one-step structure-preserving method to solve them. Then by modified equation systems, the convergence analysis in calculating the effective diffusivity is provided and compared between the structure-preserving scheme and the Euler-Maruyama scheme. Also, we provide the error estimate for the structure-preserving scheme in calculating the power law for a series of super-diffusive random flows. Finally, we calculate the effective diffusivity and anomalous diffusion phenomena for a series of 2D and 3D random fields.

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@article{arxiv.2405.19003,
  title  = {A structure-preserving scheme for computing effective diffusivity and anomalous diffusion phenomena of random flows},
  author = {Tan Zhang and Zhongjian Wang and Jack Xin and Zhiwen Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19003},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

39pages, 10 figures, planning to submit for Journal of Scientific Computing or Numerische Mathematik

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