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We present a second-order algorithm for approximating solutions to nonlocal diffusive processes in reaction-diffusion equations. The numerical scheme relies on a quadrature method for the spatial discretization and a second-order…
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Extensive experimental evidence highlight that scalar turbulence exhibits anomalous diffusion and stronger intermittency levels at small scales compared to that in fluid turbulence. This renders the corresponding subgrid-scale dynamics…
The importance of nonlocality of mean scalar transport in 2D Rayleigh-Taylor Instability (RTI) is investigated. The Macroscopic Forcing Method (MFM) is utilized to measure spatio-temporal moments of the eddy diffusivity kernel representing…
We introduce a class of stochastic advection problems amenable to analysis of turbulent transport. The statistics of the flow field are represented as a continuous time Markov process, a choice that captures the intuitive notion of…
We study the diffusion-reaction-advection model for mobile chemical species together with the dissolution and precipitation of immobile species in a porous medium at the micro-scale. This leads to a system of semilinear parabolic partial…
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The development of turbulence closure models, parametrizing the influence of small non-resolved scales on the dynamics of large resolved ones, is an outstanding theoretical challenge with vast applicative relevance. We present a closure,…
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