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It has been observed in many numerical simulations, experiments and from various theoretical treatments that heat transport in one-dimensional systems of interacting particles cannot be described by the phenomenological Fourier's law. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-12 Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu , Aritra Kundu

The~numerical solutions to a non-linear Fractional Fokker--Planck (FFP) equation are studied estimating the generalized diffusion coefficients. The~aim is to model anomalous diffusion using an FFP description with fractional velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Johan Anderson , Sara Moradi , Tariq Rafiq

We present two observations related to theapplication of linear (LFE) and nonlinear fractional equations (NFE). First, we give the comparison and estimates of the role of the fractional derivative term to the normal diffusion term in a LFE.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Weitzner , G. M. Zaslavsky

Fractional kinetic equations employ non-integer calculus to model anomalous relaxation and diffusion in many systems. While this approach is well explored, it so far failed to describe an important class of transport in disordered systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai

This paper is devoted to the hydrodynamic limit for the linear Boltzmann equation, in the case of a heavy tail equilibrium and a cross section which depends on the space variable and which degenerates for large velocities, without symmetry…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Dahmane Dechicha

Employing time-dependent projection formalism, a Fokker-Planck equation with non-Markovian transport coefficients is derived for large amplitude collective motion. Properties of transport coefficients for diffusion processes in a potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Noboru Takigawa , Sakir Ayik , Sachie Kimura

An asymptotic limit of a class of Cahn-Hilliard systems is investigated to obtain a general nonlinear diffusion equation. The target diffusion equation may reproduce a number of well-known model equations: Stefan problem, porous media…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Pierluigi Colli , Takeshi Fukao

The present paper discusses the diffusion approximation of the linear Boltzmann equation in cases where the collision frequency is not uniformly large in the spatial domain. Our results apply for instance to the case of radiative transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Claude Bardos , Etienne Bernard , François Golse , Rémi Sentis

We review some recent results concerning the derivation of the diffusion equation and the validation of Fick's law for the microscopic model given by the random Lorentz Gas. These results are achieved by using a linear kinetic equation as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alessia Nota

In earlier work we showed that the particle displacement for the multidimensional periodic Lorentz gas, in the limit of low scatterer density (Boltzmann-Grad limit), satisfies a central limit theorem with superdiffusive scaling. The present…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Jens Marklof , Balint Toth

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

An asymptotic analysis is used to derive a set of diffusion approximations to the nonclassical transport equation with isotropic scattering. These approximations are shown to reduce to the simplified P$_N$ equations under the assumption of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-02-10 R. Vasques , R. N. Slaybaugh

We resolve a long standing question regarding the suitable effective diffusion coefficient of the spherically-symmetric transport equation, which is valid at long times. To that end, we generalize a transport solution in three dimensions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-01 Shay I. Heizler , Menahem Krief , Michael Assaf

Motivated by recent applications of superdiffusive transport models to shock-accelerated particle distributions in the heliosphere, we solve analytically a one-dimensional fractional diffusion-advection equation for the particle density. We…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yuri E. Litvinenko , Frederic Effenberger

The diffusion limit of the linear Boltzmann equation with a strong magnetic field is performed. The giration period of particles around the magnetic field is assumed to be much smaller than the collision relaxation time which is supposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Naoufel Ben Abdallah , Raymond El Hajj

A mean-field-type limit from stochastic moderately interacting many-particle systems with singular Riesz potential is performed, leading to nonlocal porous-medium equations in the whole space. The nonlocality is given by the inverse of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Li Chen , Alexandra Holzinger , Ansgar Jüngel , Nicola Zamponi

The aim of this paper is the rigorous derivation of a stochastic non-linear diffusion equation from a radiative transfer equation perturbed with a random noise. The proof of the convergence relies on a formal Hilbert expansion and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Arnaud Debussche , Sylvain De Moor , Julien Vovelle

Energy-transport equations for the transport of fermions in optical lattices are formally derived from a Boltzmann transport equation with a periodic lattice potential in the diffusive limit. The limit model possesses a formal gradient-flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Marcel Braukhoff , Ansgar Jüngel

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-16 Gabriel Barreiro , Vladimir Pérez-Veloz

Mass transport problems are ubiquitous in diverse fields of physics and engineering. With the development of fractional calculus, many have taken to studying problems of fractional mass transport either through numerical simulations or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Nathaniel G. Hermann , M. Shane Hutson