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We present a new way of quantum kinetic equation derivation. This method appears as a natural generalization of the many-particle quantum hydrodynamic method. Kinetic equations are derived for different system of particles. First of all we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Pavel A. Andreev

The unified description of diffusion processes that cross over from a ballistic behavior at short times to normal or anomalous diffusion (sub- or superdiffusion) at longer times is constructed on the basis of a non-Markovian generalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-26 Valery Ilyin , Itamar Procaccia , Anatoly Zagorodny

The problem of anomalous diffusion in momentum space is considered for plasma-like systems on the basis of a new collision integral, which is appropriate for consideration of the probability transition function (PTF) with long tails in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , P. P. J. M. Schram , I. M. Sokolov

Countless processes in nature and industry, from rain droplet nucleation to plankton interaction in the ocean, are intimately related to turbulent fluctuations of local concentrations of advected matter. These fluctuations can be described…

We characterize a transition from normal to ballistic diffusion in a bouncing ball dynamics. The system is composed of a particle, or an ensemble of non-interacting particles, experiencing elastic collisions with a heavy and periodically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 André L. P. Livorati , Tiago Kroetz , Carl P. Dettmann , Iberê L. Caldas , Edson D. Leonel

We introduce a new micro-macro decomposition of collisional kinetic equations in the specific case of the diffusion limit, which naturally incorporates the incoming boundary conditions. The idea is to write the distribution function $f$ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-10 Mohammed Lemou , Florian Méhats

We consider systems of agents interacting through topological interactions. These have been shown to play an important part in animal andhuman behavior. Precisely, the system consists of a finite number of particles characterized by their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Adrien Blanchet , Pierre Degond

We report an experimental study of particle kinematics in a 3-dimensional system of inelastic spheres fluidized by intense vibration. The motion of particles in the interior of the medium is tracked by high speed video imaging, yielding a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-11 Hong-Qiang Wang , Klebert Feitosa , Narayanan Menon

Abridged abstract: Inert interactions between randomly moving entities and spatial disorder play a crucial role in quantifying the diffusive properties of a system. These interactions affect only the movement of the entities, and examples…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-20 Seeralan Sarvaharman , Luca Giuggioli

The diffusion and flow of amorphous materials, such as glasses and granular materials, has resisted a simple microscopic description, analogous to defect theories for crystals. Early models were based on either gas-like inelastic collisions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Z. Bazant

With the aim of understanding the emergence of collective motion from local interactions of organisms in a "noisy" environment, we study biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium models consisting of self-propelled particles. In…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Czirok , T. Vicsek

Individual constituent balance equations are often used to derive expressions for species-specific segregation velocities in flows of dense granular mixtures. We propose a semiempirical expression for the interspecies momentum exchange in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-19 Yifei Duan , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

A generalized Fokker-Planck equation is derived to describe particle kinetics in specific situations when the probability transition function (PTF) has a long tail in momentum space. The equation is valid for an arbitrary value of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. A. Dubinova , S. A. Trigger

We develop a general theory dealing with stochastic models for dynamical systems that are governed by various nonlinear, ordinary or partial differential, equations. In particular, we address the problem how flows in the random medium…

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The mean-field limit in a weakly interacting stochastic many-particle system for multiple population species in the whole space is proved. The limiting system consists of cross-diffusion equations, modeling the segregation of populations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Li Chen , Esther S. Daus , Ansgar Jüngel

A slowly-varying or thin-layer multiscale assumption empowers macroscale understanding of many physical scenarios from dispersion in pipes and rivers, including beams, shells, and the modulation of nonlinear waves, to homogenisation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-22 A. J. Roberts

We consider a random model of diffusion and coagulation. A large number of small particles are randomly scattered at an initial time. Each particle has some integer mass and moves in a Brownian motion whose diffusion rate is determined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Alan Hammond , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

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 stochastic differential equation that describes the dynamics of single-domain magnetic particles at any temperature is derived using a classical formalism. The deterministic terms recover existing theory and the stochastic process takes…

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