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Fick's law for coordinate dependent diffusivity is derived. Corresponding diffusion current in the presence of coordinate dependent diffusivity is consistent with the form as given by Kramers-Moyal expansion. We have obtained the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-01 A. Bhattacharyay

The accumulation of small particles is analyzed in stationary flows through channels of variable width at small Reynolds number. The combined influence of pressure, viscous drag and thermal fluctuations is described by means of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-09 Michael Schindler , Peter Talkner , Marcin Kostur , Peter Hanggi

We present a systematic expansion of Kramers equation in the high friction limit. The latter is expanded within an operator continued fraction scheme. The relevant operators include both temporal and spatial derivatives and a covariant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. A. Barreiro , J. R. Campanha , R. E. Lagos

The Smoluchowski equation with a time dependent sink term is solved exactly. In this method by knowing the probability distribution at the origin P(0,s), one may derive the probability distribution at all positions i.e., P(x,s). Further the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Diwaker , Anirudhha Chakraborty

Hypothesis: Diffusion in confinement is an important fundamental problem with significant implications for applications of supported liquid phases. However, resolving the spatially dependent diffusion coefficient, parallel and perpendicular…

A report by Brillouin (from Perrin's laboratory) on the rate of adsorption of `granules' to a glass plate [\textit{Ann. Chim. Phys.} 27 (1912) 412--23] prompted Marian von Smoluchowski (MvS) to interpret the data in terms of his newly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-29 K. Razi Naqvi

Aim of this note is to analyse branching Brownian motion within the class of models introduced in the recent paper [4] and called chemical diffusion master equations. These models provide a description for the probabilistic evolution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Alberto Lanconelli , Berk Tan Perçin

A mode-coupling theory for the motion of a strongly forced probe particle in a dense colloidal suspension is presented. Starting point is the Smoluchowski equation for $N$ bath and a single probe particle. The probe performs Brownian motion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Igor Gazuz , Matthias Fuchs

The aforementioned celebrated model, though a breakthrough in Stochastic processes and a great step toward the construction of the Brownian motion leads to a paradox: infinite propagation speed and violation of the 2nd law of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibragimov , Zeev Sobol

We consider an ideal gas of active Brownian particles that undergo self-propelled motion and both translational and rotational diffusion under the influence of gravity. We solve analytically the corresponding Smoluchowski equation in two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Sophie Hermann , Matthias Schmidt

In this paper we study the continuous coagulation and multiple fragmentation equation for the mean-field description of a system of particles taking into account the combined effect of the coagulation and the fragmentation processes in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Prasanta Kumar Barik

In this paper we prove that the time dependent solutions of a large class of Smoluchowski coagulation equations for multicomponent systems concentrate along a particular direction of the space of cluster compositions for long times. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Marina A. Ferreira , Jani Lukkarinen , Alessia Nota , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We show that the solutions to the damped stochastic wave equation converge pathwise to the solution of a stochastic heat equation. This is called the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation. Cerrai and Freidlin have previously demonstrated that…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Michael Salins

We establish nearly optimal rates of convergence to self-similar solutions of Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with kernels $K = 2$, $x + y$, and $xy$. The method is a simple analogue of the Berry-Ess\'een theorem in classical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-04-26 Ravi Srinivasan

Simple toy models are often not sufficient to cover the complexity of the dust coagulation process, and a number of numerical approaches are therefore used, among which integration of the Smoluchowski equation and various versions of Monte…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Joanna Drazkowska , Fredrik Windmark , Cornelis P. Dullemond

A dilute suspension of motile microorganisms subjected to a strong ambient flow, such as algae in the ocean, can be modelled as a population of non-interacting, orientable active Brownian particles (ABPs). Using the Smoluchowski equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-21 Lloyd Fung , Rachel N. Bearon , Yongyun Hwang

We derive the Virial theorem appropriate to the generalized Smoluchowski-Poisson system describing self-gravitating Brownian particles and bacterial populations (chemotaxis). We extend previous works by considering the case of an unbounded…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Clement Sire

A stochastic PDE, describing mesoscopic fluctuations in systems of weakly interacting inertial particles of finite volume, is proposed and analysed in any finite dimension $d\in\mathbb{N}$. It is a regularised and inertial version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Federico Cornalba , Tony Shardlow , Johannes Zimmer

We study the growth of perturbations in a uniformly collapsing cloud of self-gravitating Brownian particles. This problem shares analogies with the formation of large-scale structures in a universe experiencing a "big-crunch" or with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-29 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This work studies a simplified model of the gravitational instability of an initially homogeneous infinite medium, represented by $\TT^d$, based on the approximation that the mean fluid velocity is always proportional to the local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Yago Ascasibar , Rafael Granero-Belinchón , José Manuel Moreno