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A manifestly covariant relativistic statistical mechanics of the system of $N$ indistinguishable events with motion in space-time parametrized by an invariant ``historical time'' $\tau $ is considered. The relativistic mass distribution for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Burakovsky , L. P. Horwitz

A quasi-two-dimensional system of hard spheres strongly confined between two parallel plates is considered. The attention is focussed on the macroscopic self-diffusion process observed when the system is looked from above or from below. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-09 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

Dynamical symmetries of the collisionless Boltzmann transport equation, or Vlasov equation, but under the influence of an external driving force, are derived from non-standard representations of the $2D$ conformal algebra. In the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stoimen Stoimenov , Malte Henkel

The nonlinear boson diffusion equation is taken as a basis to account for the fast thermalization of gluons in the initial stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. For constant drift and diffusion coefficients with schematic initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 J. Rössler , G. Wolschin

Mathematically modelling diffusive and advective transport of particles in heterogeneous layered media is important to many applications in computational, biological and medical physics. While deterministic continuum models of such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Elliot J. Carr

Radiative transfer in curved spacetimes has become increasingly important to understanding high-energy astrophysical phenomena and testing general relativity in the strong field limit. The equations of radiative transfer are physically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick

A generalised phase-space kinetic Boltzmann equation for highly non-equilibrium charged particle transport via localised and delocalised states is used to develop continuity, momentum and energy balance equations, accounting explicitly for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-19 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White

We find a near detailed balance solution to the relativistic Boltzmann equation under the relaxation time approximation with a collision term which differs from the Anderson-Witting model and is dependent on the stationary observer. Using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-08 Song Liu , Xin Hao , Shaofan Liu , Liu Zhao

Using a so-called hemispherical model we derive a general transport equation for cosmic ray and thermal particles scattered in pitch angle by magnetic inhomogeneities in a moving collisionless plasma. The weak scattering through 90 degrees…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. N. Zirakashvili

We obtain hydrodynamic descriptions of a broad class of conserved-mass transport processes on a ring. These processes are governed by chipping, diffusion and coalescence of masses, where microscopic probability weights in their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-06 Arghya Das , Anupam Kundu , Punyabrata Pradhan

The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport formulation of the full Einstein equations of general relativity, linking the (Ricci) curvature of a space-time with the cosmological constant and the energy-momentum tensor. Such an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Andrea Mondino , Stefan Suhr

A cyclic random motion at finite velocity with orthogonal directions is considered in the plane and in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We obtain in both cases the explicit conditional distributions of the position of the moving particle when the number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-01 E. Orsingher , R. Garra , A. I. Zeifman

The use of the linear Boltzmann equation is proposed for transport in porous media in a column. By column experiments, we show that the breakthrough curve is reproduced by the linear Boltzmann equation. The advection-diffusion equation is…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-08-05 Kenji Amagai , Motoko Yamakawa , Manabu Machida , Yuko Hatano

Transport of point-size Brownian particles under the influence of a constant and uniform force field through a three-dimensional channel with smoothly varying periodic cross-section is investigated. Here, we employ an asymptotic analysis in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-14 Steffen Martens , Gerhard Schmid , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

Recently a new theory for the transport of energetic particles across a mean magnetic field was presented. Compared to other non-linear theories the new approach has the advantage that it provides a full time-dependent description of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Jordan Lasuik , Andreas Shalchi

We formulate a new model for transport in stochastic media with long-range spatial correlations where exponential attenuation (controlling the propagation part of the transport) becomes power law. Direct transmission over optical distance…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-13 Anthony B. Davis , Feng Xu

A diffusion's induced transport is defined for a linear model of a Fokker-Plank equation under periodic boundary conditions in one-dimensional geometry. The flow is generated by a diffusion and a periodic deriving force induced by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-04 Gershon Wolansky

We introduce the concept of transport waves by showing that the linearized Boltzmann transport equation admits excitations in the form of waves that have well defined dispersion relations and decay times. Crucially, these waves do not…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-04 Andrea Cepellotti , Nicola Marzari

We study the contribution of advection by thermal velocity fluctuations to the effective diffusion coefficient in a mixture of two indistinguishable fluids. The enhancement of the diffusive transport depends on the system size L and grows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Donev , A. de la Fuente , J. B. Bell , A. L. Garcia