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We analyze the trajectory of suspended spherical particles moving through a square array of obstacles, in the deterministic limit and at zero Reynolds number. We show that, in the dilute approximation of widely separated obstacles, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Sumedh R. Risbud , German Drazer

We report an experimental, numerical and theoretical study of the motion of a ball on a rough inclined surface. The control parameters are $D$, the diameter of the ball, $\theta$, the inclination angle of the rough surface and $E_{ki}$, the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Henrique , M. A. Aguirre , A. Calvo , I. Ippolito , S. Dippel , G. G. Batrouni , D. Bideau

We study periodic Brownian paths, wrapped around the surface of a cylinder. One characteristic of such a path is its width square, $w^2$, defined as its variance. Though the average of $w^2$ over all possible paths is well known, its full…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A J McKane , R K P Zia

We consider a modification of classical branching random walk, where we add i.i.d. perturbations to the positions of the particles in each generation. In this model, which was introduced and studied by Bandyopadhyay and Ghosh (2023),…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Krzysztof Kowalski

It has been known that the distribution of the random distances between two uniformly distributed points within a convex polygon can be obtained based on its chord length distribution (CLD). In this report, we first verify the existing…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Fei Tong , Maryam Ahmadi , Jianping Pan

In the frequency domain, the nearly constant loss, is characterized by a slope 1 in log of the real part of the electrical conductivity vs log frequency plots. It can be explained by an anomalous diffusion, defined by a random walk with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-25 Baruch Vainas

We consider a branching random walk with an absorbing barrier, where the step of the associated one-dimensional random walk is in the domain of attraction of an $\alpha$-stable law with $1<\alpha<2$. We shall prove that there is a barrier…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Jingning Liu , Mei Zhang

We propose a picture of the fluctuations in branching random walks, which leads to predictions for the distribution of a random variable that characterizes the position of the bulk of the particles. We also interpret the $1/\sqrt{t}$…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-11-05 A. H. Mueller , S. Munier

We present an analytical approach to study simple symmetric random walks (RWs) on a crossing geometry consisting of a plane square lattice crossed by $n_l$ number of lines that all meet each other at a single point (the origin) on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-02 Reza Sepehrinia , Abbas Ali Saberi , Hor Dashti-Naserabadi

In arXiv:1609.05666v1 [math.PR] a functional limit theorem was proved. It states that symmetric processes associated with resistance metric measure spaces converge when the underlying spaces converge with respect to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 George Andriopoulos

We have devised an original laboratory experiment where we investigate the frictional behaviour of a single crystal salt slider over a large number of deformation cycles. Because of its physical properties, salt, a surrogate for natural…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Christophe Voisin , Francois Renard , Jean-Robert Grasso

A random walk in a sparse random environment is a model introduced by Matzavinos et al. [Electron. J. Probab. 21, paper no. 72: 2016] as a generalization of both a simple symmetric random walk and a classical random walk in a random…

We investigate the work fluctuations in an overdamped non-equilibrium process that is stopped at a stochastic time. The latter is characterized by a first passage event that marks the completion of the non-equilibrium process. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-20 Iago N Mamede , Prashant Singh , Arnab Pal , Carlos E. Fiore , Karel Proesmans

We develop a new method to determine the acceleration of a block sliding down along the face of a moving wedge. We have been able to link the solution of this problem to that of the inclined plane problem of elementary physics, thus…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-10-31 Oscar Bolina , J. R. Parreira

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results in terms of probability fields of free particles subject to self-interference, without using Schr\"{o}dinger equation or wavefunctions. Unlike the standard QM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Antonio Sciarretta

In this paper, a branching random walk $(V(x))$ in the boundary case is studied, where the associated one dimensional random walk is in the domain of attraction of an $\alpha-$stable law with $1<\alpha<2$. Let $M_n$ be the minimal position…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Jingning Liu , Mei Zhang

A connection is made between the random turns model of vicious walkers and random permutations indexed by their increasing subsequences. Consequently the scaled distribution of the maximum displacements in a particular asymmeteric version…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 P. J. Forrester

We consider the limit behavior of a one-dimensional random walk with unit jumps whose transition probabilities are modified every time the walk hits zero. The invariance principle is proved in the scheme of series where the size of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-08 Andrey Pilipenko , Vladislav Khomenko

Let $d$ be a positive integer and $A$ a set in $\mathbb{Z}^d$, which contains finitely many points with integer coordinates. We consider $X$ a standard random walk perturbed on the set $A$, that is, a Markov chain whose transition…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Congzao Dong , Alexander Iksanov , Andrey Pilipenko

Sticky Brownian motion is the simplest example of a diffusion process that can spend finite time both in the interior of a domain and on its boundary. It arises in various applications such as in biology, materials science, and finance.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon