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Numerous processes across both the physical and biological sciences are driven by diffusion. Partial differential equations (PDEs) are a popular tool for modelling such phenomena deterministically, but it is often necessary to use…

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This paper analyses the impact of collisions in a system of $N$ identical hard-core particles driven according to a velocity jump process. The physical space is essentially a channel in $\mathbb{R}$ with a probability of occupants being…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-24 Gayani Tennakoon , Stephen W. Taylor

We show how the nonlinear interaction effects `volume filling' and `adhesion' can be incorporated into the fractional subdiffusive transport of cells and individual organisms. To this end, we use microscopic random walk models with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-20 Peter Straka , Sergei Fedotov

We expand on a recent study of a lattice model of interacting particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 110601 (2013)]. The adsorption isotherm and equilibrium fluctuations in particle number are discussed as a function of the interaction. Their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Becker , K. Nelissen , B. Cleuren , B. Partoens , C. Van den Broeck

Collective diffusion coefficient in a one dimensional lattice gas adsorbate is calculated using variational approach. Particles interact via either a long-range, or a long range electron-gas-mediated (for a metallic substrate), or a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-26 Filip Krzyżewski , Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur

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…

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We investigate test-particle diffusion in dynamical turbulence based on a numerical approach presented before. For the turbulence we employ the nonlinear anisotropic dynamical turbulence model which takes into account wave propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Martin Heusen , Andreas Shalchi

A non-equilibrium thermodynamics model able to analyze the combined effect of diffusion and adsorption in porous materials is proposed. The model considers the coupled dynamics of the diffusive phase, described by a diffusion type equation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 I. Santamaria-Holek , Z. J. Grzywna , J. M. Rubi

The diffusion in two dimensions of non-interacting active particles that follow an arbitrary motility pattern is considered for analysis. Accordingly, the transport equation is generalized to take into account an arbitrary distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-01 Francisco J. Sevilla

In this paper the excluded volume of binary similar hyperparticles with small size difference in D-dimensional Euclidean spaces R2, R3, and R4 is studied using two different statistical geometry approaches. These geometric approaches,…

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A phase-space excluded-volume approach is developed to investigate the in-medium properties of light clusters in nuclear matter. In this approach, light clusters can exist only if the total nucleon phase-space occupation of the surrounding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Rui Wang , Zhen Zhang , Stefano Burrello , Maria Colonna , Edoardo G. Lanza

Understanding the dynamics of material objects advected by turbulent flows is a long standing question in fluid dynamics. In this perspective article we focus on the characterization of the statistical properties of non-interacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yaning Fan , Cheng Wang , Linfeng Jiang , Chao Sun , Enrico Calzavarini

Understanding the dynamics of soft colloids, such as star polymers, dendrimers, and microgels, is of scientific and practical importance. It is known that the excluded volume effect plays a key role in colloidal dynamics. Here, we propose a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-17 Zhe Wang , Antonio Faraone , Panchao Yin , Lionel Porcar , Yun Liu , Changwoo Do , Kunlun Hong , Wei-Ren Chen

One-dimensional movement of interacting particles is a challenging problem where the correlation between particles induces non-trivial collective effects. In contrast to the single-file diffusion case, the pure ballistic single file…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-28 P. M. Centres , S. J. Manzi , V. D. Pereyra , S. Bustingorry

The movement of motor particles consisting of one or several molecular motors bound to a cargo particle is studied theoretically. The particles move on patterns of immobilized filaments. Several patterns are described for which the motor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Klumpp , Reinhard Lipowsky

We proposed a new extended version of Enskog theory for the description of the self-diffusion coefficient of a colloidal hard-sphere fluid adsorbed in a matrix of disordered hard-sphere obstacles. In a considered approach instead of contact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-26 M. F. Holovko , M. Ya. Korvatska

This work derives the Navier--Stokes hydrodynamic equations for a model of a confined, quasi-two-dimensional, $s$-component mixture of inelastic, smooth, hard spheres. Using the inelastic version of the revised Enskog theory, macroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-27 David González Méndez , Vicente Garzó

We study the diffusion of tagged hard core interacting particles under the influence of an external force field. Using the Jepsen line we map this many particle problem onto a single particle one. We obtain general equations for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Barkai , R. Silbey

The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

I consider the coupled one-dimensional diffusion of a cluster of N classical particles with contact repulsion. General expressions are given for the probability distributions, allowing to obtain the transport coefficients. In the limit of…

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