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The purpose of this paper is to provide new formulas for the estimation of the effective diffusion coefficient of an equation of Fick-Jacob's type obtained by projecting the two-dimensional diffusion equation along the normal direction of…

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Recently, stretched exponential decay of multiple correlations in the periodic Lorentz gas has been used to show the convergence of a series of correlations which has the physical interpretation as the fourth order Burnett coefficient, a…

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This paper presents an {\it ab initio} derivation of the expression given by irreversible thermodynamics for the rate of entropy production for different classes of diffusive processes. The first class are Lorentz gases, where…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. R. Dorfman , P. Gaspard , T. Gilbert

We show that puzzling recent experimental results on spin diffusion in a strongly interacting atomic gas may be understood in terms of the predicted spin diffusion coefficient for a generic strongly interacting system. Three important…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-19 G. M. Bruun , C. J. Pethick

In Clearing Up Mysteries -- The Original Goal (Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods: Cambridge, England, 1988 Springer, pp. 1-27) Jaynes derived Fick's Law for a dilute binary solution from Bayes' Theorem by considering, probabilistically,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Peter E. Price

The fractional wave equation governs the propagation of mechanical diffusive waves in viscoelastic media which exhibits a power-law creep, and consequently provided a physical interpretation of this equation in the framework of dynamic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Minghua Chen , Wenshan Yu

This paper deals with the diffusive limit of the Jin and Xin model and its approximation by an asymptotic preserving finite volume scheme. At the continuous level, we determine a convergence rate to the diffusive limit by means of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard , Hélène Mathis

We investigate diffusion in a two-dimensional inverted soft Lorentz gas, where attractive Fermi-type potential wells are arranged in a triangular lattice. This configuration contrasts with earlier studies of soft Lorentz gases involving…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 Esko Toivonen , Aleksi Majaniemi , Rainer Klages , Esa Räsänen

Boundary-induced transport in particle systems with anomalous diffusion exhibits rectification, negative resistance, and hysteresis phenomena depending on the way the drive acts on the boundary. The solvable case of a 1D system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mauro Sellitto

Cellular automata lattice gases are useful systems for systematically exploring the connections between non-equilibrium statisitcal mechanics and dynamical systems theory. Here the chaotic properties of a Lorentz lattice gas are studied…

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The relativistic kinetic theory of the phonon gas in superfluids is developed. The technique of the derivation of macroscopic balance equations from microscopic equations of motion for individual particles is applied to an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Popov

In recent works it has been demonstrated that using an appropriate rescaling, linear Boltzmann-type equations give rise to a scalar fractional diffusion equation in the limit of a small mean free path. The equilibrium distributions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Sabine Hittmeir , Sara Merino-Aceituno

This paper investigates the diffusion limit of a kinetic BGK-type equation, focusing on its relaxation to a nonlinear aggregation-diffusion equation, where the diffusion exhibits a porous-medium-type nonlinearity. Unlike previous studies by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Young-Pil Choi , Jeongho Kim , Oliver Tse

A granular gas composed of inelastic hard spheres or disks in the homogeneous cooling state is considered. Some of the particles are labeled and their number density exhibits a time-independent linear profile along a given direction. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We employ the macroscopic fluctuation theory to study fluctuations of integrated current in one-dimensional lattice gases with a step-like initial density profile. We analytically determine the variance of the current fluctuations for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. L. Krapivsky , Baruch Meerson

A model for diffusion on a cubic lattice with a random distribution of traps is developed. The traps are redistributed at certain time intervals. Such models are useful for describing systems showing dynamic disorder, such as ion-conducting…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Mandal , R. Dasgupta

A framework of finite-velocity model based Boltzmann equation has been developed for convection-diffusion equations. These velocities are kept flexible and adjusted to control numerical diffusion. A flux difference splitting based kinetic…

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We study the continuous limit of a multibox Erhenfest urn model proposed before by the authors. The evolution of the resulting continuous system is governed by a differential equation, which describes a diffusion process on a circle with a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pi-Gang Luan , Yee-Mou Kao

Non-Gaussian diffusion was recently observed in gas mixtures with mass and fraction contrast [F. Nakai et al, Phys. Rev. E 107, 014605 (2023)]. The mean square displacement of a minor gas particle with a small mass is linear in time, while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-14 Fumiaki Nakai , Takashi Uneyama

Convection-diffusion equation is used to describe particle migration process in many fields, while it is proposed based on the empirical Fick's law. In this paper, with the help of the percolation model, we theoretically investigate the…

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