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We consider evolutionary reaction-diffusion problem with mixed Dirichlet--Robin boundary conditions. For this class of problems, we derive two-sided estimates of the distance between any function in the admissible energy space and exact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Svetlana Matculevich , Pekka Neittaanmäki , Sergey Repin

A new approach to Brownian motion of atomic clusters on solid surfaces is developed. The main topic discussed is the dependence of the diffusion coefficient on the fit between the surface static potential and the internal cluster…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-12 Roumen Tsekov

We consider a reaction-diffusion-advection problem in a perforated medium, with nonlinear reactions in the bulk and at the microscopic boundary, and low diffusion scaling. The microstructure changes in time; the microstructural evolution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu , Iulio Sorin Pop

We study the dynamics of Brownian particles in a heterogeneous one-dimensional medium with a spatially-dependent diffusion coefficient of the form $D(x)\sim |x|^c$, at constant temperature. The particle's probability distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Shaked Regev , Niels Grønbech-Jensen , Oded Farago

We investigate the fractional diffusion approximation of a kinetic equation set in a bounded interval with diffusive reflection conditions at the boundary. In an appropriate singular limit corresponding to small Knudsen number and long time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Ludovic Cesbron , Antoine Mellet , Marjolaine Puel

We consider a system of reaction-diffusion equations with passive advection term and Lewis number not equal to one. Such systems are used to describe chemical reactions in a flow in a situation where temperature and material diffusivities…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Kiselev , Leonid Ryzhik

The movement of a particle described by Brownian motion is quantified by a single parameter, $D$, the diffusion constant. The estimation of $D$ from a discrete sequence of noisy observations is a fundamental problem in biological single…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-13 Peter K. Relich , Mark J. Olah , Patrick J. Cutler , Keith A. Lidke

We study in this paper the periodic homogenization problem related to a strongly nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation. Owing to the large reaction term, the homogenized equation has a rather quite different form which puts together both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Nils Svanstedt , Jean Louis Woukeng

Overdamped motion of Brownian particles in tilted piecewise linear periodic potentials is considered. Explicit algebraic expressions for the diffusion coefficient, current, and coherence level of Brownian transport are derived. Their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Els Heinsalu , Risto Tammelo , Teet Ord

We study the motion of Brownian particle in modulated media in the strong damping limit by using {\em toy model}, with special emphasis on the transition from localise to diffusive behavior. By using model potential we have seen the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Himadri S. Samanta

We analyze the diffusion of a Brownian particle in a fluid under stationary flow. By using the scheme of non-equilibrium thermodynamics in phase space, we obtain the Fokker-Planck equation which is compared with others derived from kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 I. Santamaría-Holek , D. Reguera , J. M. Rubí

A version of fractional diffusion on bounded domains, subject to 'homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions' is derived from a kinetic transport model with homogeneous inflow boundary conditions. For nonconvex domains, the result differs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

We propose a Langevin equation for systems in an environment with nonuniform temperature. At odds with an older proposal, ours admits a locally Maxwellian steady state, local equipartition holds and for detailed-balanced (reversible)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Matteo Polettini

The paper deals with the homogenization of reaction-diffusion equations with large reaction terms in a multi-scale porous medium. We assume that the fractures and pores are equidistributed and that the coefficients of the equations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Hermann Douanla , Jean Louis Woukeng

The Brownian motion of a test particle interacting with a quantum scalar field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary is studied in (1 + 1)-dimensional flat spacetime. Particularly, the expressions for dispersions in velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 V. A. De Lorenci , E. S. Moreira , M. M. Silva

The advection-diffusion equation can be approximated by a one-dimensional diffusion equation in Lagrangian coordinates along the directions of compression of fluid elements (the stable manifold). This result holds in any number of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In this paper, we introduce the linear fractional self-attracting diffusion driven by a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index 1/2<H<1, which is analogous to the linear self-attracting diffusion. For 1-dimensional process we study its…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-19 Litan Yan , Yu Sun , Yunsheng Lu

In this paper we consider a multiparticle version of a recent probabilistic framework for studying diffusion-mediated surface reactions. The basic idea of the probabilistic approach is to consider the joint probability density or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-19 Paul C Bressloff

Fractional Brownian motion (FBM), a non-Markovian self-similar Gaussian stochastic process with long-ranged correlations, represents a widely applied, paradigmatic mathematical model of anomalous diffusion. We report the results of…

Widely applicable, modified Green-Kubo expressions for the local diffusion coefficient ($D_l$) are obtained using linear response theory. In contrast to past definitions in use, these expressions are statistical mechanical results.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-25 Michelle A. Hunter , Baris Demir , Charlotte F. Petersen , Debra J. Searles