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Internal waves in the ocean interact in triads. Early work emphasized the importance of extreme-scale separated interactions in which two large wavenumber waves interact with one small wavenumber wave. More recent efforts have called this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 Yuri V Lvov , Kurt L Polzin

We analyze the diffusive transport of Brownian particles in narrow channels with periodically varying cross-section. The geometrical confinements lead to entropic barriers, the particle has to overcome in order to proceed in transport…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-06 P. S. Burada , G. Schmid , Y. Li , P. Hanggi

A model for ionic and electronic grain boundary transport through thin films, scales or membranes with columnar grain structure is introduced. The grain structure is idealized as a lattice of identical hexagonal cells - a honeycomb pattern.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-05 M. P. Tautschnig , N. M. Harrison , M. W. Finnis

In this paper we construct numerical schemes to approximate linear transport equations with slab geometry by diffusion equations. We treat both the case of pure diffusive scaling and the case where kinetic and diffusive scalings coexist.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Qin Li , Jianfeng Lu , Weiran Sun

Ionic transport in nano- to sub-nano-scale pores is highly dependent on translocation barriers and potential wells. These features in the free-energy landscape are primarily the result of ion dehydration and electrostatic interactions. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Subin Sahu , Michael Zwolak

I propose a simple model, based on an analogy to von Neumann artificial viscosity, of turbulent diffusion, heat diffusion and viscosity coefficients for use in modeling subgrid turbulent diffusivity in multi-phase numerical hydrodynamics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 J. I. Katz

Transport of viscous fluid through porous media is a direct consequence of the pore structure. Here we investigate transport through a specific class of two-dimensional porous geometries, namely those formed by fluid-mechanical erosion. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-20 Shang-Huan Chiu , M. N. J. Moore , Bryan D. Quaife

We propose a theoretical model which relies on the generalized Langevin equation and may account for various dynamical features of the thermal motion of organelles, vesicles or macromolecules in viscoelastic media such as polymer networks.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-03 Denis S. Grebenkov , Mahsa Vahabi , Elena Bertseva , Laszlo Forro , Sylvia Jeney

A common wisdom posits that transports of conserved quantities across clean nonintegrable quantum systems at high temperatures are diffusive when probed from the emergent hydrodynamic regime. We show that this empirical paradigm may alter…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-20 Chun Chen , Yan Chen , Xiaoqun Wang

Surface scattering is the key limiting factor to thermal transport in dielectric crystals as the length scales are reduced or when temperature is lowered. To explain this phenomenon, it is commonly assumed that the mean free paths of heat…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-17 Andrea Cepellotti , Nicola Marzari

Turbulent flows at the surface of the ocean deviate from geostrophic equilibrium on scales smaller than about 10 km. These scales are associated with important vertical transport of active and passive tracers, and should play a prominent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-28 Michael Maalouly , Guillaume Lapeyre , Stefano Berti

The phase space of an area-preserving map typically contains infinitely many elliptic islands embedded in a chaotic sea. Orbits near the boundary of a chaotic region have been observed to stick for long times, strongly influencing their…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-28 Or Alus , Shmuel Fishman , James D. Meiss

We develop a general hydrodynamic framework for computing direct current thermal and electric transport in a strongly interacting finite temperature quantum system near a Lorentz-invariant quantum critical point. Our framework is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 Andrew Lucas , Jesse Crossno , Kin Chung Fong , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev

Understanding how climate change will affect oceanic fluid transport is crucial for environmental applications and human activities. However, a synoptic characterization of the influence of climate change on mesoscale stirring and transport…

A simplified transient energy-transport system for semiconductors subject to mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. The model is formally derived from the non-isothermal hydrodynamic equations in a particular vanishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Ansgar Jüngel , René Pinnau , Elisa Röhrig

The transport of magnetization is analyzed for the classical Heisenberg chain at and especially above the isotropic point. To this end, the Hamiltonian equations of motion are solved numerically for initial states realizing harmonic-like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-15 Robin Steinigeweg

This paper defines a new transport metric over the space of non-negative measures. This metric interpolates between the quadratic Wasserstein and the Fisher-Rao metrics and generalizes optimal transport to measures with different masses. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Lenaic Chizat , Bernhard Schmitzer , Gabriel Peyré , François-Xavier Vialard

We consider a generic system operating under non-equilibrium conditions. Explicitly, we consider an inertial classical Brownian particle dwelling a periodic structure with a spatially broken reflection symmetry. The particle is coupled to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 P. Hänggi , J. Łuczka , J. Spiechowicz

Mathematical modeling is an important theoretical tool which provides researchers with quantification of the permeability of dialyzing systems in renal replacement therapy. In the paper we provide a short review of the most successful…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-16 Marina V Voinova