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We investigate the long-time evolution of branching diffusion processes (starting with a finite number of particles) in inhomogeneous media. The qualitative behavior of the processes depends on the intensity of the branching. In the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-23 Leonid Koralov

Stochasticity of magnetic field lines is important for particle transport properties. Magnetic field lines separate faster than diffusively in turbulent plasma, which is called superdiffusion. We discovered that this superdiffusion is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Andrey Beresnyak

By means of analytical calculations and numerical simulations we study the diffusion properties in quasi-two-dimensional structures with two exciton subsystems with an exchange between them. The experimental realisation is possible in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-18 Oluwafemi P. Adejumobi , Vladimir N. Mantsevich , Vladimir V. Palyulin

Nonequilibrium processes in semiconductors are considered with highly nonuniform initial densities of charge carriers. It is shown that there exist such distributions of charge densities under which the electric current through a sample…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova , M. R. Singh

We study the anomalous transport in systems of random walks (RW's) on comb-like lattices with fractal sidebranches, showing subdiffusion, and in a system of Brownian particles driven by a random shear along the x-direction, showing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-15 Fabio Cecconi , Giulio Costantini , Alessandro Taloni , Angelo Vulpiani

This work considers the propagation of high-frequency waves in highly-scattering media where physical absorption of a nonlinear nature occurs. Using the classical tools of the Wigner transform and multiscale analysis, we derive semilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Joseph Kraisler , Wei Li , Kui Ren , John C. Schotland , Yimin Zhong

Abstract. The present work considers a change in the momentum under the transfer of a solution through the interface. It is shown that pressure related to the partial volumes of components arises in a solution under diffusion. As a result,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-16 Alex Guskov

We study the mass transport dynamics of an adsorbed layer near a discontinuous incommensurate striped-honeycomb phase transition via numerical simulations of a coarse-grained model focusing on the motion of domain walls rather than…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-21 E. Granato , S. C. Ying , K. R. Elder , T. Ala-Nissila

We study computationally the dynamics of forced, Brownian particles through a disordered system. As the concentration of mobile particles and/or fixed obstacles increase, we characterize the different regimes of flow and address how…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-26 Sergi G. Leyva , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

We study the diffusion phenomena on the negatively curved surface made up of congruent heptagons. Unlike the usual two-dimensional plane, this structure makes the boundary increase exponentially with the distance from the center, and hence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-07-15 Seung Ki Baek , Su Do Yi , Beom Jun Kim

We study the thermocapillary creeping flow induced by a thermal gradient at the liquid-air interface in the presence of insoluble surfactants (impurities). Convective sweeping of the surfactants causes density inhomogeneities that confers…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-10 Thomas Bickel

Transport across heterogeneous, patchy environments is a ubiquitous phenomenon spanning fields of study including ecological movement, intracellular transport and regions of specialised function in a cell. These regions or patches may be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-06 Sergei Fedotov , Helena Stage

In the paper the flow in a thin tubular structure is considered. The velocity of the flow stands for a coefficient in the diffusion-convection equation set in the thin structure. An asymptotic expansion of solution is constructed. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-11 G. Cardone , G. P. Panasenko , Y. Sirakov

Diffusion of self-propelled particles in the presence of randomly distributed obstacles in three dimensions is studied using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that depending on the magnitude of the propelling force and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Hamidreza Khalilian , Hossein Fazli

Propulsion of otherwise passive objects is achieved by mechanisms of active driving. We concentrate on cases in which the direction of active drive is subject to spontaneous symmetry breaking. In our case, this direction will be maintained,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Andreas M. Menzel

The study of fluctuation-induced transport is concerned with the directed motion of particles on a substrate when subjected to a fluctuating external field. Work over the last two decades provides now precise clues on how the average…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-24 G. P. Suarez , Miguel Hoyuelos , Dante R. Chialvo

We investigate the dynamics of a single tracer exploring a course of fixed obstacles in the vicinity of the percolation transition for particles confined to the infinite cluster. The mean-square displacement displays anomalous transport,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Markus Spanner , Felix Höfling , Gerd Schröder-Turk , Klaus Mecke , Thomas Franosch

A system consisting of two conservative, oppositely driven species of particles with excluded volume interaction alone is studied on a torus. The system undergoes a phase transition between a homogeneous and an inhomogeneous phase, as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. -t. Leung , R. K. P. Zia

Directed transport of overdamped Brownian particles in an asymmetrically periodic tube is investigated in the presence of the tube wall vibration. From the Brownian dynamics simulations we can find that the perpendicular wall vibration can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bao-quan Ai