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We use the hyperbolic subdiffusion equation with fractional time derivatives (the generalized Cattaneo equation) to study the transport process of electrolytes in media where subdiffusion occurs. In this model the flux is delayed in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz , Katarzyna D. Lewandowska

We present a general phase-space kinetic model for charged particle transport through combined localised and delocalised states, capable of describing scattering collisions, trapping, detrapping and losses. The model is described by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Daniel Cocks , Ronald D. White

We study consequences of gauge invariance and charge conservation of an electron gas in a strong random potential perturbed by a weak electromagnetic field. We use quantum equations of motion and Ward identities for one- and two-particle…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-09-16 V. Janis , J. Kolorenc , V. Spicka

Isotropic fluids in two spatial dimensions can break parity symmetry and sustain transverse stresses which do not lead to dissipation. Corresponding transport coefficients include odd viscosity, odd torque, and odd pressure. We consider an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-10 Gustavo M. Monteiro , Alexander G. Abanov , Sriram Ganeshan

A study of the transport coefficients of a system of elastic hard disks, based on the use of Helfand-Einstein expressions is reported. The self-diffusion, the viscosity, and the heat conductivity are examined with averaging techniques…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 Ramón García-Rojo , Stefan Luding , J. Javier Brey

The hydrodynamic Burnett equations and the associated transport coefficients are exactly evaluated for generalized inelastic Maxwell models. In those models, the one-particle distribution function obeys the inelastic Boltzmann equation,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-07 Nagi Khalil , Vicente Garzó , Andrés Santos

We study the spread of a quantum-mechanical wavepacket in a noisy environment, modeled using a tight-binding Hamiltonian. Despite the coherent dynamics, the fluctuating environment may give rise to diffusive behavior. When correlations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-29 Nisarga Paul , Ariel Amir

This paper models the classical diffusion of a main particle through a heatbath by means of a pre-limit microscopic representation of its drifted momentum and energy transfers at collision times. The collision point linear interpolated path…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Johan Beumee

Dynamic processes in dispersions of charged spherical particles are of importance both in fundamental science, and in technical and bio-medical applications. There exists a large variety of charged-particles systems, ranging from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-25 G. Nägele , M. Heinen , A. J. Banchio , C. Contreras-Aburto

This paper is a companion to 'Quantum Diffusion with Drift and the Einstein Relation I' (jointly submitted to arXiv). Its purpose is to describe and prove a certain number of technical results used in 'Quantum Diffusion with Drift and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wojciech De Roeck , Juerg Froehlich , Kevin Schnelli

This work investigates the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range transversely polarized time-dependent electric field. A generalized scattering-matrix method is developed that has incorporated a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

The short--time self diffusion coefficient of a sphere in a suspension of rigid rods is calculated in first order in the rod volume fraction. For low rod concentrations the correction to the Einstein diffusion constant of the sphere is a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-03 J. Guzowski , B. Cichocki , E. Wajnryb , G. C. Abade

Mathematically modelling diffusive and advective transport of particles in heterogeneous layered media is important to many applications in computational, biological and medical physics. While deterministic continuum models of such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Elliot J. Carr

We study the problem of homogenization for inertial particles moving in a time dependent random velocity field and subject to molecular diffusion. We show that, under appropriate assumptions on the velocity field, the large--scale,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart , K. C. Zygalakis

In the study of 1D nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices, the conserved quantities play an important role in determining the actual behavior of heat conduction. Besides the total energy, total momentum and total stretch could also be conserved…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 Zhibin Gao , Nianbei Li , Baowen Li

Based upon the intrinsic symmetries approach to inhomogeneous cosmologies, we propose an exact solution to Einstein's field equations where the spatial sections are flat and the source is a non-perfect fluid such that the dissipative terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-11 E. Bittencourt , L. G. Gomes , G. B. Santos

We derive transport equations for the propagation of water wave action in the presence of a static, spatially random surface drift. Using the Wigner distribution $\W(\x,\k,t)$ to represent the envelope of the wave amplitude at position $\x$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Bal , Tom Chou

Diffusion of particles through an heterogenous obstacle line is modeled as a two-dimensional diffusion problem with a one--directional nonlinear convective drift and is examined using two-scale asymptotic analysis. At the scale where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Ida de Bonis , Adrian Muntean , Omar Richardson

As a reduced representation of the nonlinear spectral fluxes of ideal invariants in incompressible magnetohydrodynamics, we construct a gradient-diffusion network model that combines phenomenological considerations and geometrical analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-23 Benjamin Beck , Wolf-Christian Müller

A two-field Hamiltonian gyrofluid model for kinetic Alfv\'en waves retaining ion finite Larmor radius corrections, parallel magnetic field fluctuations and electron inertia, is used to study turbulent cascades from the MHD to the sub-ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 T. Passot , P. L. Sulem