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We study two random processes on an $n$-vertex graph inspired by the internal diffusion limited aggregation (IDLA) model. In both processes $n$ particles start from an arbitrary but fixed origin. Each particle performs a simple random walk…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Nicolas Rivera , Alexandre Stauffer , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester

A new master equation to mimic the dynamics of a collection of interacting random walkers in an open system is proposed and solved numerically.In this model, the random walkers interact through excluded volume interaction (single-file…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Prasanth P Jose , Biman Bagchi

We consider the morphology of two dimensional cracks observed in experimental results obtained from paper samples and compare these results with the numerical simulations of the random fuse model (RFM). We demonstrate that the data obey…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikko J. Alava , Phani K. V. V. Nukala , Stefano Zapperi

We study a random walk infiltration (RWI) model, in homogeneous and in fractal media, with localized sources at their boundaries. The particles released at a source, which is maintained at a constant density, execute unbiased random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-11 Fabio D. A. Aarao Reis , Vaughan R. Voller

Random walk spaces are a general framework for the study of PDEs. They include as particular cases locally finite weighted connected graphs and nonlocal settings involving symmetric integrable kernels on $\mathbb{R}^N$. We are interested in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 W. Górny , J. M. Mazón , J. Toledo

Diffusion-based models demonstrate impressive generation capabilities. However, they also have a massive number of parameters, resulting in enormous model sizes, thus making them unsuitable for deployment on resource-constraint devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Avideep Mukherjee , Soumya Banerjee , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

We introduce a class of models based on near crack tip degradation of materials that can account for fracture growth under cyclic loads below the Griffith threshold. We incorporate the gradual degradation due to a cyclic load through a flow…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-26 Ataollah Mesgarnejad , Anahita Imanian , Alain Karma

We examine theoretically and numerically fast propagation of a tensile crack along unidimensional strips with periodically evolving toughness. In such dynamic fracture regimes, crack front waves form and transport front disturbances along…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-23 Alizée Dubois , Daniel Bonamy

We study the following growth model on a regular d-ary tree. Points at distance n adjacent to the existing subtree are added with probabilities proportional to alpha^{-n}, where alpha<1 is a positive real parameter. The heights of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 MArtin T. Barlow , Robin Pemantle , Edwin A. Perkins

We study a theoretical model of mud cracks, that is, the fracture patterns resulting from the contraction with drying in a thin layer of a mixture of granules and water. In this model, we consider the slip on the bottom of this layer and…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Kitsunezaki

We study the growing patterns in the rotor-router model formed by adding $N$ walkers at the center of a $L \times L$ two-dimensional square lattice, starting with a periodic background of arrows, and relaxing to a stable configuration. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Rahul Dandekar , Deepak Dhar

A catalytic branching random walk on a multidimensional lattice, with arbitrary finite number of catalysts, is studied in supercritical regime. The dynamics of spatial spread of the particles population is examined, upon normalization. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Ekaterina Vl. Bulinskaya

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a random walker diffusing on a disordered one-dimensional lattice with random trappings. The distribution of escape probabilities is computed exactly for any strength of the disorder. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Clement Sire

This paper presents an algorithm for generating scale-free networks with adjustable clustering coefficient. The algorithm is based on a random walk procedure combined with a triangle generation scheme which takes into account genetic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-05-18 Carlos Herrera , Pedro J. Zufiria

Failure in brittle materials under dynamic loading conditions is a result of the propagation and coalescence of microcracks. Simulating this mechanism at the continuum level is computationally expensive or, in some cases, intractable. The…

We investigate a branching random walk where the displacements are independent from the branching mechanism and have a stretched exponential distribution. We describe the positions of the particles in the vicinity of the rightmost particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Piotr Dyszewski , Nina Gantert

Euclidean invariant Klein-Gordon, Dirac and massive Chern-Simons field theories are constructed in terms of a random walk with a spin factor on a three dimensional lattice. We exactly calculate the free energy and the correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Masako Asano , Chigak Itoi , Shin-Ichi Kojima

Low-dimensional periodic arrays of scatterers with a moving point particle are ideal models for studying deterministic diffusion. For such systems the diffusion coefficient is typically an irregular function under variation of a control…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Klages , N. Korabel

In real life, mostly problems are dynamic. Many algorithms have been proposed to handle the static problems, but these algorithms do not handle or poorly handle the dynamic environment problems. Although, many algorithms have been proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zahid Iqbal , Waseem Shahzad

We study the dynamics of random walks hopping on homogeneous hyper-cubic lattices and multiplying at a fertile site. In one and two dimensions, the total number $\mathcal{N}(t)$ of walkers grows exponentially at a Malthusian rate depending…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-17 Michel Bauer , P. L. Krapivsky , Kirone Mallick