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Diffusion adaptation is a powerful strategy for distributed estimation and learning over networks. Motivated by the concept of combining adaptive filters, this work proposes a combination framework that aggregates the operation of multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-11 Danqi Jin , Jie Chen , Cedric Richard , Jingdong Chen , Ali H. Sayed

A passive scalar is advected by a velocity field, with a nonuniform spatial source that maintains concentration inhomogeneities. For example, the scalar could be temperature with a source consisting of hot and cold spots, such that the mean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-12-12 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , G. A. Pavliotis

The paper addresses the single-file diffusion in the presence of an absorbing boundary. The emphasis is on an interplay between the hard-core interparticle interaction and the absorption process. The resulting dynamics exhibits several…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-26 Artem Ryabov , Petr Chvosta

We deal with the problem of separation of time-scales and filamentation in a linear drift-diffusion problem posed on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^2$. The passive scalar considered is stirred by an incompressible flow with radial symmetry. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Michele Coti Zelati , Michele Dolce

We study the contribution of advection by thermal velocity fluctuations to the effective diffusion coefficient in a mixture of two identical fluids. The steady-state diffusive flux in a finite system subject to a concentration gradient is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Donev , A. de la Fuente , J. B. Bell , A. L. Garcia

We present a generative modeling framework for synthesizing physically feasible two-dimensional incompressible flows under arbitrary obstacle geometries and boundary conditions. Whereas existing diffusion-based flow generators either ignore…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Noah Trupin , Rahul Ghosh , Aadi Jangid

We analyse the process of convective mixing in two-dimensional, homogeneous and isotropic porous media with dispersion. We considered a Rayleigh-Taylor instability in which the presence of a solute produces density differences driving the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-08 Marco De Paoli , Guru Sreevanshu Yerragolam , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

We study the contribution of advection by thermal velocity fluctuations to the effective diffusion coefficient in a mixture of two indistinguishable fluids. The enhancement of the diffusive transport depends on the system size L and grows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Donev , A. de la Fuente , J. B. Bell , A. L. Garcia

A novel micromixing technique that exploit a thrust of droplets into the mixing interface is developed. The technique enhances the mixing by injecting immiscible droplets in a mixing channel and the methodology enables a control of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-28 Ryosuke Sakurai , Ken Yamamoto , Masahiro Motosuke

Turbulent flows have been used for millennia to mix solutes; a familiar example is stirring cream into coffee. However, many energy, environmental, and industrial processes rely on the mixing of solutes in porous media where confinement…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-14 Christopher A. Browne , Sujit S. Datta

We consider the questions of efficient mixing and un-mixing by incompressible flows which satisfy periodic, no-flow, or no-slip boundary conditions on a square. Under the uniform-in-time constraint $\|\nabla u(\cdot,t)\|_p\leq 1$ we show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-17 Yao Yao , Andrej Zlatos

In absence of advection, reaction-diffusion systems are able to organize into spatiotemporal patterns, in particular spiral and target waves. Whenever advection is present and can be parameterised in terms of effective or turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-10 A. von Kameke , F. Huhn , A. P. Muñuzuri , V. Pérez-Muñuzuri

We use numerical simulations to examine two-dimensional particle mixtures that strongly phase separate in equilibrium. When the system is externally driven in the presence of quenched disorder, plastic flow occurs in the form of meandering…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Mixing in viscous fluids is challenging, but chaotic advection in principle allows efficient mixing. In the best possible scenario,the decay rate of the concentration profile of a passive scalar should be exponential in time. In practice,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-24 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Emmanuelle Gouillart , Olivier Dauchot

Recently, Roht et al. [J. Contam. Hydrol. 145, 10-16 (2013)] observed that the presence of suspended non-Brownian macroscopic particles decreased the dispersivity of a passive solute, for a pressure-driven flow in a narrow parallel-plates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. Boschan , M. A. Aguirre , G. Gauthier

We establish rigorous lower bounds on the speed of traveling fronts and on the bulk burning rate in reaction-diffusion equation with passive advection. The non-linearity is assumed to be of either KPP or ignition type. We consider two main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Alexander Kiselev , Leonid Ryzhik

Entropy scaling is a powerful technique that has been used for predicting transport properties of pure components over a wide range of states. However, modeling mixture diffusion coefficients by entropy scaling is an unresolved task. We…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Sebastian Schmitt , Hans Hasse , Simon Stephan

Numerous mixing strategies in microfluidic devices rely on chaotic advection by time-dependent body forces. The question of determining the required forcing function to achieve optimal mixing at a given kinetic energy or power input remains…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-18 Qizheng Yan , David Saintillan

Discontinuous transitions into absorbing states require an effective mechanism that prevents the stabilization of low density states. They can be found in different systems, such as lattice models or stochastic differential equations (e.g.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-12 Salete Pianegonda , Carlos E. Fiore

This paper is concerned with the incompressible limit problem for strong solutions of compressible two-phase flow models under periodic boundary conditions, where the Navier-Stokes equations are nonlinearly coupled with either Cahn-Hilliard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yinghua Li , Manrou Xie