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Spreading of bacteria in a highly advective, disordered environment is examined. Predictions of super-diffusive spreading for a simplified reaction-diffusion equation are tested. Concentration profiles display anomalous growth and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John H. Carpenter , Karin A. Dahmen

For all $\alpha \in (0,1)$, we construct an explicit divergence-free vector field $V \in L^\infty([0,1],C^\alpha(\mathbb{T}^2))$ that exhibits universal anomalous (total) dissipation, accelerating dissipation enhancement, Richardson…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Elias Hess-Childs , Keefer Rowan

We study the effect of advection and small diffusion on passive tracers. The advecting velocity field is assumed to have mean zero and to possess time-periodic stream lines. Using a canonical transform to action-angle variables followed by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tobias Schaefer , Andrew C. Poje , Jesenko Vukadinovic

This is a truncated version of the paper "Degenerate diffusion with a drift potential: a viscosity solutions approach", co-authored with I. C. Kim. The purpose of this version is to withdraw the claim of quantitative rate of convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-22 H. K. Lei

In this paper, we establish new quantitative convergence bounds for a class of functional autoregressive models in weighted total variation metrics. To derive our results, we show that under mild assumptions, explicit minorization and…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Valentin De Bortoli , Alain Durmus

In this paper we study nonnegative, measure valued solutions of the initial value problem for one-dimensional drift-diffusion equations when the nonlinear diffusion is governed by an increasing $C^1$ function $\beta$ with $\lim_{r\to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 S. Fornaro , S. Lisini , G. Savare' , G. Toscani

We develop an Optimal Transportation Meshfree (OTM) particle method for advection-diffusion in which the concentration or density of the diffusive species is approximated by Dirac measures. We resort to an incremental variational principle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Livio Fedeli , Anna Pandolfi , Michael Ortiz

A fractional diffusion equation with advection term is rigorously derived from a kinetic transport model with a linear turning operator, featuring a fat-tailed equilibrium distribution and a small directional bias due to a given vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-19 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

We establish explicit lower bounds for advection-diffusion equations in three settings: a polynomial $\dot H^{-1}$ bound for inviscid shears with $u\in L^\infty_t W^{1,1}_y$, a uniform positive lower bound on the mixing scale for diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Chenyang An , Xiaoqian Xu

We propose a nonlinear Discrete Duality Finite Volume scheme to approximate the solutions of drift diffusion equations. The scheme is built to preserve at the discrete level even on severely distorted meshes the energy / energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Clément Cancès , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Stella Krell

In this paper, we study the asymptotic estimate of solution for a mixed-order time-fractional diffusion equation in a bounded domain subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Firstly, the unique existence and regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Zhiyuan Li , Xinchi Huang , Masahiro Yamamoto

Global classical solutions to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation with homogenious Dirichlet boundary conditions are shown to converge to zero at the same speed as the linear heat semigroup when p > 1. For p = 1, an exponential decay to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Said Benachour , Simona Dabuleanu-Hapca , Philippe Laurençot

A solution is developed for a convection-diffusion equation describing chemical transport with sorption, decay, and production. The problem is formulated in a finite domain where the appropriate conservation law yields Robin conditions at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. J. Golz , J. R. Dorroh

The transition from a microscopic model for the movement of many particles to a macroscopic continuum model for a density flow is studied. The microscopic model for the free flow is completely deterministic, described by an interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jennifer Weissen , Simone Göttlich , Dieter Armbruster

Convection-diffusion equations arise in a variety of applications such as particle transport, electromagnetics, and magnetohydrodynamics. Simulation of the convection-dominated regime for these problems, even with high-fidelity techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 James H. Adler , Casey Cavanaugh , Xiaozhe Hu , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

Constrained diffusions in convex polyhedral domains with a general oblique reflection field, and with a diffusion coefficient scaled by a small parameter, are considered. Using an interior Dirichlet heat kernel lower bound estimate for…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-19 Amarjit Budhiraja , Zhen-Qing Chen

We study nonlinear diffusion problems of the form $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ with free boundaries. Such problems may be used to describe the spreading of a biological or chemical species, with the free boundary representing the expanding front. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Yihong Du , Bendong Lou

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

We are concerned with a phase field system consisting of two partial differential equations in terms of the variables thermal displacement, that is basically the time integration of temperature, and phase parameter. The system is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-29 Giacomo Canevari , Pierluigi Colli

We study a Lagrangian numerical scheme for solution of a nonlinear drift diffusion equation of the form $\partial_t u = \partial_x(u \cdot c[\partial_x(h^\prime(u)+v)])$ on an interval. This scheme will consist of a spatio-temporal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Benjamin Söllner , Oliver Junge