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Diffusive cosmic-ray transport in nonuniform large-scale magnetic fields in the presence of boundaries is considered. Reflecting and absorbing boundary conditions are derived for a modified telegraph equation with a convective term.…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuri E. Litvinenko , Frederic Effenberger , Reinhard Schlickeiser

In the present study we examine non-Gaussian spreading of solutes subject to advection, dispersion and kinetic sorption (adsorption/desorption). We start considering the behavior of a single particle and apply a random walk to describe…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-14 Gerard Uffink , Amro Elfeki , Michel Dekking , Johannes Bruining , Cor Kraaikamp

Consider the steady neutron transport equation in 2D convex domains with in-flow boundary condition. In this paper, we establish the diffusive limit while the boundary layers are present. Our contribution relies on a delicate decomposition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Lei Wu

The derivation of suitable analytical models is an important step for the design and analysis of molecular communication systems. However, many existing models have limited applicability in practical scenarios due to various simplifications…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Werner Haselmayr , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober

A system of interacting Brownian particles subject to short-range repulsive potentials is considered. A continuum description in the form of a nonlinear diffusion equation is derived systematically in the dilute limit using the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman , Martin Robinson

Understanding anomalous transport and reaction kinetics due to microscopic physical and chemical disorder is a long-standing goal in many fields including geophysics, biology, and engineering. We consider reaction-diffusion characterized by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-11 Gerald J. Lapeyre , Marco Dentz

We analyze the well-posedness of an anisotropic, nonlocal diffusion equation. Establishing an equivalence between weighted and unweighted anisotropic nonlocal diffusion operators in the vein of unified nonlocal vector calculus, we apply our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Marta D'Elia , Mamikon Gulian

The mesosocpic concept is applied to the theory of mixtures. The aim is to investigate the diffusion phenomenon from a mesoscopic point of view. The domain of the field quantities is extended by the set of mesoscopic variables, here the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Palumbo , C. Papenfuss , P. Rogolino

Modelling the propagation of a pulse in a dense {\em milieu} poses fundamental challenges at the theoretical and applied levels. To this aim, in this paper we generalize the telegraph equation to non-ideal conditions by extending the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Francesco Piazza

A non-perturbative nonlinear statistical approach is presented to describe turbulent magnetic systems embedded in a uniform mean magnetic field. A general formula in the form of an ordinary differential equation for magnetic field-line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Shalchi , I. Kourakis

In the context of a nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics, based on a nonequilibrium statistical ensemble formalism, a generalized hydrodynamics of fluids under driven flow and shear stress is derived. At the thermodynamic level, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-21 Clóves Gonçalves Rodrigues , José G. Ramos , Carlos A. B. Silva , Roberto Luzzi

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

Considering the example of interacting Brownian particles we present a linear response derivation of the boundary condition for the corresponding hydrodynamic description (the diffusion equation). This requires us to identify a non-analytic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Fuchs , K. Kroy

This paper aims to investigate a multi-dimensional transport equation with nonlocal velocity and fractional dissipation.The balance between the nonlinearity and dissipation gives rise to three different cases, namely the subcritical,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Wanwan Zhang

The transfer matrix and matrix multiplication ansatz, when applied to nonequilibrium steady states in asymmetric exclusion processed and traffic models, has given many exact results for phase diagrams, bulk densities and fluxes, as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. G. Tilstra , M. H. Ernst

The basic conceptual picture and theoretical basis for development of transport equations in porous media are examined. The general form of the governing equations is derived for conservative chemical transport in heterogeneous geological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Brian Berkowitz , Joseph Klafter , Ralf Metzler , Harvey Scher

We consider the totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes on quenched random energy landscapes. We show that the current and the diffusion coefficient differ from those for homogeneous environments. Using the mean-field approximation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-29 Issei Sakai , Takuma Akimoto

We introduce the totally asymmetric exclusion process with Langmuir kinetics (TASEP-LK) on a network as a microscopic model for active motor protein transport on the cytoskeleton, immersed in the diffusive cytoplasm. We discuss how the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-01 I. Neri , N. Kern , A. Parmeggiani

The effective, fast transport of matter through porous media is often characterized by complex dispersion effects. To describe in mathematical terms such situations, instead of a simple macroscopic equation (as in the classical Darcy's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Surendra Nepal , Vishnu Raveendran , Michael Eden , Rainey Lyons , Adrian Muntean

Diffusion is the macroscopic manifestation of disordered molecular motion. Mathematically, diffusion equations are partial differential equations describing the fluid-like large-scale dynamics of parcels of molecules. Spatially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-26 F. Sattin , A. Bonato , L. Salasnich