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A version of fractional diffusion on bounded domains, subject to 'homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions' is derived from a kinetic transport model with homogeneous inflow boundary conditions. For nonconvex domains, the result differs…

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One key issue in the probability density function (PDF) approach for disperse two-phase turbulent flows is to close the diffusion term in the phase space. This study aimed to derive a kinetic equation for particle dispersion in turbulent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 De-yu Zhong , Guang-qian Wang , Tie-jian Li , Ming-xi Zhang , You Xia

We solve the convection-diffusion equation using a coupling of cell-centered finite volume (FV) and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. The domain is divided into disjoint regions assigned to FV or DG, and the two methods are coupled…

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Phase field methods have been widely used to study phase transitions and polarization switching in ferroelectric thin films. In this paper, we develop an efficient numerical scheme for the variational phase field model based on variational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Ruotai Li , Qiang Du , Lei Zhang

The present study deals with the finite element discretization of nanofluid convective transport in an enclosure with variable properties. We study the Buongiorno model, which couples the Navier-Stokes equations for the base fluid, an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-27 M. K. Riahi , M. Ali , Y. Addad , E. Abu-Nada

Wall-based spanwise forcing has been experimentally used with success by Auteri et al. (Phys. Fluids vol. 22, 2010, 115103) to obtain large reductions of turbulent skin-friction drag and considerable energy savings in a pipe flow. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-23 Emanuele Gallorini , Maurizio Quadrio

A mass transport directed from low to high density region in an inhomogeneous medium is modeled as a limiting case of a two-component lattice gas with excluded volume constraint and one of the components fixed. In the long-wavelength…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-10-05 Sergei P. Lukyanets , Oleksandr V. Kliushnychenko

In this paper, we investigate a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for an optimal control problem governed by a two-sided space-fractional diffusion-advection-reaction equation. Taking into account the effect of singularities near the boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Shengyue Li , Wanrong Cao , Yibo Wang

We present a numerical approach to efficiently calculate spin-wave dispersions and spatial mode profiles in magnetic waveguides of arbitrarily shaped cross section with any non-collinear equilibrium magnetization which is translationally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Lukas Körber , Gwendolyn Quasebarth , Andreas Otto , Attila Kákay

Direct numerical simulations of compressible turbulent channel flow at supersonic and hypersonic Mach numbers are performed using a thermally perfect gas model for CO$_2$. The objective is to assess the role of structure-preserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Alessandro Aiello , Andrea Palumbo , Carlo De Michele , Gennaro Coppola

Previous work has established that the localized regime of wave transport in open media is characterized by a position-dependent diffusion coefficient. In this work we study how the concept of position-dependent diffusion affects the delay…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-24 B. A. van Tiggelen , S. E. Skipetrov , J. H. Page

While more rigorous and sophisticated methods for identifying Lagrangian based coherent structures exist, the finite-time Lyapunov exponent (FTLE) field remains a straightforward and popular method for gaining some insight into transport by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Michael R. Allshouse , Thomas Peacock

Diffusion-based models on continuous spaces have seen substantial recent progress through the mathematical framework of gradient flows, leveraging the Wasserstein-2 (${W}_2$) metric via the Jordan-Kinderlehrer-Otto (JKO) scheme. Despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dario Rancati , Jan Maas , Francesco Locatello

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

We develop a semi-analytic deterministic framework for charged-particle transport with continuous slowing-down in energy and angular scattering. Directed transport and energy advection are treated by method-of-characteristics integration,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Ben S. Ashby , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer

We study average flow properties in porous media using a two-dimensional network simulator. It models the dynamics of two-phase immiscible bulk flow where film flow can be neglected. The boundary conditions are biperiodic which provide a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Arendt Knudsen , Alex Hansen

In the present work, we investigate the potential of fractional derivatives to model atmospheric dispersion of pollutants. We propose simple fractional differential equation models for the steady state spatial distribution of concentration…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 A. G. O. Goulart , M. J. Lazo , J. M. S. Suarez , D. M. Moreira

The recently introduced correspondence between one-dimensional two-species driven models and the Zero-Range Process is extended to study the case where the densities of the two species need not be equal. The correspondence is formulated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. Evans , E. Levine , P. K. Mohanty , D. Mukamel

Grafakos and Sansing \cite{GS} have shown how to obtain directionally sensitive time-frequency decompositions in $L^2(\mr^n)$ based on Gabor systems in $\ltr;$ the key tool is the "ridge idea," which lifts a function of one variable to a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Ole Christensen , Brigitte Forster , Peter Massopust

We propose a variational finite volume scheme to approximate the solutions to Wasserstein gradient flows. The time discretization is based on an implicit linearization of the Wasserstein distance expressed thanks to Benamou-Brenier formula,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Clément Cancès , Thomas O. Gallouët , Gabriele Todeschi