English
Related papers

Related papers: Automodel solutions for L\'evy flight-based transp…

200 papers

Light transport in superdiffusive media of finite size is studied theoretically. The intensity Green's function for a slab geometry is found by discretizing the fractional diffusion equation and employing the eigenfunction expansion method.…

Optics · Physics 2010-10-26 Jacopo Bertolotti , Kevin Vynck , Diederik S. Wiersma

The theory of transport phenomena in multicomponent electrolyte solutions is presented here through the integration of continuum mechanics, electromagnetism, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The governing equations of irreversible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-02 Kara D. Fong , Helen K. Bergstrom , Bryan D. McCloskey , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

We calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential energy landscape $U(x)$. The PDF is found by solving the corresponding Smoluchowski diffusion equation. We derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Matan Sivan , Oded Farago

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which contains a variable diffusion coefficient, is discussed and solved. It corresponds to the L\'evy flights in a nonhomogeneous medium. For the case with the linear drift, the solution is stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-09 Tomasz Srokowski

A stochastic method is described for estimating Green's functions (GF's), appropriate to linear advection-diffusion-reaction transport problems, evolving in arbitrary geometries. By allowing straightforward construction of approximate,…

In this work we study travelling wave solutions to bistable reaction diffusion equations on bi-infinite $k$-ary trees in the continuum regime where the diffusion parameter is large. Adapting the spectral convergence method developed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Hermen Jan Hupkes , Mia Jukic

The L\'evy walk process with rests is discussed. The jumping time is governed by an $\alpha$-stable distribution with $\alpha>1$ while a waiting time distribution is Poissonian and involves a position-dependent rate which reflects a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

This article extends a strong averaging principle for L\'evy diffusions which live on the leaves of a foliated manifold subject to small transversal L\'evy type perturbation to the case of non-compact leaves. The main result states that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Paulo-Henrique da Costa , Michael A. Högele , Paulo R. Ruffino

Levy walk is a fundamental model with applications ranging from quantum physics to paths of animal foraging. Taking animal foraging as an example, a natural idea that comes to one's mind is to introduce the multiple internal states for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-04 Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

A variety of boundary value problems in linear transport theory are expressed as a diffusion equation of the two-way, or forward-backward, type. In such problems boundary data are specified only on part of the boundary, which introduces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Caleb G. Wagner , Richard Beals

We present a perturbation theory by extending a prescription due to Feynman for computing the probability density function for the random flight motion. The method can be applied to a wide variety of otherwise difficult circumstances. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tim Hatamian

Rayleigh-L\'evy flights are simplified cosmological tools which capture certain essential statistical properties of the cosmic density field, including hierarchical structures in higher-order correlations, making them a valuable reference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Stephen Appleby , Francis Bernardeau , Christophe Pichon

Full orbit dynamics of charged particles in a $3$-dimensional helical magnetic field in the presence of $\alpha$-stable L\'evy electrostatic fluctuations and linear friction modeling collisional Coulomb drag is studied via Monte Carlo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Sara Moradi , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Johan Anderson

We analyze two different confining mechanisms for L\'{e}vy flights in the presence of external potentials. One of them is due to a conservative force in the corresponding Langevin equation. Another is implemented by Levy-Schroedinger…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Piotr Garbaczewski

Building on an insight due to Avramidi, we provide a system of transport equations for determining key fundamental bi-tensors, including derivatives of the world-function, \sigma(x,x'), the square root of the Van Vleck determinant,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-13 Adrian C. Ottewill , Barry Wardell

We study the photoluminescence spectra excited at an edge side of n-InP slabs and observed from the broadside. In a moderately doped sample the intensity drops off as a power-law function of the distance from the excitation - up to several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Serge Luryi , Oleg Semyonov , Arsen Subashiev , Zhichao Chen

We investigate the role of the form of the spatial diffusion coefficient in shock acceleration of fast particles. Referring to non-classical diffusion and using the results of numerical (hybrid) simulations tailored for the downstream shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-25 R. A. Treumann

L\'{e}vy robotic systems combine superdiffusive random movement with emergent collective behaviour from local communication and alignment in order to find rare targets or track objects. In this article we derive macroscopic fractional PDE…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Heiko Gimperlein

We describe the transverse beam distribution in particle accelerators within the controlled, stochastic dynamical scheme of the Stochastic Mechanics (SM) which produces time reversal invariant diffusion processes. This leads to a linearized…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Cufaro Petroni , S. De Martino , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati

In probability density function (PDF) methods a transport equation is solved numerically to compute the time and space dependent probability distribution of several flow variables in a turbulent flow. The joint PDF of the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-04 J. Bakosi , P. Franzese , Z. Boybeyi