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Diffusion model deployment has been suffering from high energy consumption and inference latency despite its superior performance in visual generation tasks. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) offers a promising solution to…

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Visual synthesis has recently seen significant leaps in performance, largely due to breakthroughs in generative models. Diffusion models have been a key enabler, as they excel in image diversity. However, this comes at the cost of slow…

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Active fluids operate by constantly dissipating energy at the particle level to perform a directed motion, yielding dynamics and phases without any equilibrium equivalent. The emerging behaviors have been studied extensively, yet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-03 Étienne Fodor , Takahiro Nemoto , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

Gradient-driven diffusion in crowded, multicomponent mixtures is a topic of high interest because of its role in biological processes such as transport in cell membranes. In partially phase-separated solutions, gradient-driven diffusion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-15 Prithviraj Nandigrami , Brandy Grove , Andrew Konya , Robin L. B. Selinger

Understanding and optimizing passive scalar mixing in a diffusive fluid flow at finite P\'eclet number $Pe=U h/\kappa$ (where $U$ and $h$ are characteristic velocity and length scales, and $\kappa$ is the molecular diffusivisity of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Conor Heffernan , Colm-cille Caulfield

Using the advection-diffusion equation, we analytically study contaminant transport in a sharply contrasting medium with a diffusion barrier due to localization of a contaminant source in a low-permeability medium. Anomalous diffusion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-10-28 O. A. Dvoretskaya , P. S. Kondratenko

Multiscale metrics such as negative Sobolev norms are effective for quantifying the degree of mixedness of a passive scalar field advected by an incompressible flow in the absence of diffusion. In this paper we introduce a mix norm that is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-12 Sirui Zhu , Zhi Lin , Liang Li , Lingyun Ding

In these lecture notes, we provide an introduction to the theory of mixing for incompressible flows from a PDE perspective. We discuss both the Lagrangian (ODE) and Eulerian (PDE, continuity equation) viewpoints, and introduce suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Gianluca Crippa

Our goal is to develop a flux limiter of the Flux-Corrected Transport method for a nonconservative convection-diffusion equation. For this, we consider a hybrid difference scheme that is a linear combination of a monotone scheme and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Sergii Kivva

Recent numerical results show that if a scalar is mixed by periodically forced turbulence, the average mixing rate is directly affected for forcing frequencies small compared to the integral turbulence frequency. We elucidate this by an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-04 Wouter Bos , Robert Rubinstein

We describe how a convectively unstable active field in an open flow configuration becomes absolutely unstable due to local mixing. A representation of the mixing region as those with locally enhanced effective diffusion allows us to find…

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The transport of an infinitely thin, hard rod in a random, dense array of point obstacles is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Our model mimics the sterically hindered dynamics in dense needle liquids. The center-of-mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-22 Felix Höfling , Erwin Frey , Thomas Franosch

We investigate the bounds between normal or anomalous effective diffusion for inertial particles transported by parallel flows. The infrared behavior of the fluid kinetic-energy spectrum, i.e. the possible presence of long-range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-07 Marco Martins Afonso

Majority of theoretical results regarding turbulent mixing are based on the model of ideal flows with zero correlation time. We discuss the reasons why such results may fail for real flows and develop a scheme which makes it possible to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-05 Siim Ainsaar , Mihkel Kree , Jaan Kalda

We address the evaluation of mixing efficiency in experiments of chaotic mixing inside an open-flow channel. Since the open flow continuously brings new fluid into the limited mixing region, it is difficult to define relevant mixing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-02 Emmanuelle Gouillart , Olivier Dauchot , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

We investigate the radial transport of magnetic flux in a thin accretion disc, the turbulence being modelled by effective diffusion coefficients (viscosity and resistivity). Both turbulent diffusion and advection by the accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Jerome Guilet , Gordon I. Ogilvie

Flow and diffusion models have demonstrated strong performance and training stability across various tasks but lack two critical properties of simulation-based methods: freedom of dimensionality and adaptability to different inference…

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Diffusion models have shown strong competitiveness in offline reinforcement learning tasks by formulating decision-making as sequential generation. However, the practicality of these methods is limited due to the lengthy inference processes…

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Frozen parametric disorder can lead to appearance of sets of localized convective currents in an otherwise stable (quiescent) fluid layer heated from below. These currents significantly influence the transport of an admixture (or any other…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-08 Denis S. Goldobin

Mixing in low Reynolds number flow is difficult because in this laminar regime it occurs mostly via slow molecular diffusion. This letter reports a simple way to significantly enhance low Reynolds number passive microfluidic flow mixing in…