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The aim of this article is to provide a scheme for simulating diffusion processes evolving in one-dimensional discontinuous media. This scheme does not rely on smoothing the coefficients that appear in the infinitesimal generator of the…

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Zolotarev proved a duality result that relates stable densities with different indices. In this paper, we show how Zolotarev duality leads to some interesting results on fractional diffusion. Fractional diffusion equations employ fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-26 Boris Baeumer , Mark M. Meerschaert , Erkan Nane

Consider the time-dependent problem of mass transfer of a solute between two phases and assume that the solute is initially distributed in one phase (phase 2) and absent from the other (phase 1). We desire the fraction of total solute…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-17 Salvatore Torquato

In many physical or biological systems, diffusion can be described by Brownian motions with stochastic diffusion coefficients (DCs). In the present study, we investigate properties of the diffusion with a broad class of stochastic DCs with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-13 Go Uchida , Hitoshi Washizu , Hiromi Miyoshi

Diffusive transport of a particle in spatially correlated random energy landscape having exponential density of states has been considered. We exactly calculate the diffusivity in the nondispersive quasi-equilibrium transport regime and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-02-14 S. V. Novikov

Using random walk simulations we explore diffusive transport through monodisperse sphere packings over a range of packing fractions, $\phi$, in the vicinity of the jamming transition at $\phi_{c}$. Various diffusion properties are computed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Dan S. Bolintineanu , Gary S. Grest , Jeremy B. Lechman , Leonardo E. Silbert

We study the thermal Markovian diffusion of tracer particles in a 2D medium with spatially-varying diffusivity $D(r)$, mimicking recently measured, heterogeneous maps of the apparent diffusion coefficient in biological cells. For this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-24 Andrey G. Cherstvy , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

An exact description of the statistical motion of active particles in three dimension is presented in the framework of a generalized diffusion equation. Such a generalization contemplates a non-local, in time and space, connecting (memory)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-20 Francisco J Sevilla

The two--dimensional diffusive dynamics of test particles in a random electromagnetic field is studied. The synthetic electromagnetic fluctuations are generated through randomly placed magnetised ``clouds'' oscillating with a frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-01 Silvia Perri , Fabio Lepreti , Vincenzo Carbone , Angelo Vulpiani

We study the problem of a Brownian particle diffusing in finite dimensions in a potential given by $\psi= \phi^2/2$ where $\phi$ is Gaussian random field. Exact results for the diffusion constant in the high temperature phase are given in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Touya , D. S. Dean

Diffusion of a two component fluid is studied in the framework of differential equations, but where these equations are systematically derived from a well-defined microscopic model. The model has a finite carrying capacity imposed upon it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Fanelli , A. J. McKane , G. Pompili , B. Tiribilli , M. Vassalli , T. Biancalani

We have discovered analytical expressions for the probability density function (PDF) of photons that are multiply scattered in relativistic flows, under the assumption of isotropic and inelastic scattering. These expressions characterize…

When very small particles are suspended in a fluid in motion, they tend to follow the flow. How such tracer particles are mixed, transported, and dispersed by turbulent flow has been successfully described by statistical models. Heavy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 J. Bec , K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig

We consider a generalised diffusion equation in two dimensions for modeling diffusion on a comb-like structures. We analyse the probability distribution functions and we derive the mean squared displacement in $x$ and $y$ directions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-23 Trifce Sandev , Alexander Iomin , Holger Kantz , Ralf Metzler , Aleksei Chechkin

On speed of a photon in a dispersing medium Ogluzdin Valeriy E. Abstract Based on the author of the experimental results and their treatment, a model that demonstrates that the real dispersive medium in spectral regions where the refractive…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Valeriy E. Ogluzdin

Dilute granular flows are routinely described by collisional kinetic theory, but dense flows require a fundamentally different approach, due to long-lasting, many-body contacts. In the case of silo drainage, many continuum models have been…

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

We consider random walkers that deform the medium as they move, enabling a faster motion in regions which have been recently visited. This induces an effective attraction between walkers mediated by the medium, which can be regarded as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-29 Carlos Lajusticia-Costan , Silvia N. Santalla , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Elka Korutcheva

Transport of point-size Brownian particles under the influence of a constant and uniform force field through a three-dimensional channel with smoothly varying periodic cross-section is investigated. Here, we employ an asymptotic analysis in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-14 Steffen Martens , Gerhard Schmid , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Peter Hänggi

The one-dimensional motion of any number $\cN$ of particles in the field of many independent waves (with strong spatial correlation) is formulated as a second-order system of stochastic differential equations, driven by two Wiener…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-10 Yves Elskens , Etienne Pardoux

The Markovian diffusion theory is generalized within the framework of the special theory of relativity using a modification of the mathematical calculus of diffusion on Riemannian manifolds (with definite metric) to describe diffusion on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Joachim Herrmann