Diffusion in a fluid flow generated by a source at the apex of a wedge
Fluid Dynamics
2022-08-02 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We consider a particle diffusing inside a wedge with absorbing boundaries and driven by a radial flow of incompressible fluid generated by a source at the apex. The survival probability decays as (time)^{-b} with exponent depending on the opening angle of the wedge and the Reynolds number associated with the hydrodynamic flow. The computation of the decay exponent reduces to finding the ground state energy of the quantum particle in an infinitely deep potential well with shape determined by the radial flow velocity.
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@article{arxiv.2112.15163,
title = {Diffusion in a fluid flow generated by a source at the apex of a wedge},
author = {P. L. Krapivsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.15163},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures; minor corrections in v. 2