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A method is proposed for the calculation of diffusion constants for one-dimensional maps exhibiting deterministic diffusion. The procedure is based on harmonic inversion and uses a known relation between the diffusion constant and the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Weibert , J. Main , G. Wunner

We study diffusion processes that are stopped or reflected on the boundary of a domain. The generator of the process is assumed to contain two parts: the main part that degenerates on the boundary in a direction orthogonal to the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov

We consider the homogenization of a semilinear heat equation with vanishing viscosity and with oscillating positive potential depending on $u/\varepsilon$. According to the rate between the frequency of oscillations in the potential and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Annalisa Cesaroni , Nicolas Dirr , Matteo Novaga

We study the effect of spatially-varying potential and diffusivity on the dispersion of a tracer particle in single-file diffusion. Non-interacting particles in such a system exhibit normal diffusion at late times, which is characterised by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Benjamin Sorkin , David S. Dean

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

The problem of a particle diffusion in a fluctuating scalar field is studied. In contrast to most studies of advection diffusion in random fields we analyze the case where the particle position is also coupled to the dynamics of the field.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 David S. Dean , V. Demery

We study the problem of homogenization for inertial particles moving in a periodic velocity field, and subject to molecular diffusion. We show that, under appropriate assumptions on the velocity field, the large scale, long time behavior of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart

Self-similar solutions of the coherent diffusion equation are derived and measured. The set of real similarity solutions is generalized by the introduction of a nonuniform phase surface, based on the elegant Gaussian modes of optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 O. Firstenberg , P. London , D. Yankelev , R. Pugatch , M. Shuker , N. Davidson

In this research note we provide a variational basis for the optimal artificial diffusion method, which has been a cornerstone in developing many stabilized methods. The optimal artificial diffusion method produces exact nodal solutions…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 K. B. Nakshatrala , A. J. Valocchi

We study the inverse problem of recovering a spatially dependent variable order in a time-fractional diffusion model from the boundary flux measurement generated by a single boundary excitation. It arises in the identification of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Jiho Hong , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

Dispersion properties of electromagnetic crystals formed by small uniaxial resonant scatterers (magnetic or electric) are studied using the local field approach. The goal of the study is to determine the conditions under which the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel A. Belov , Constantin R. Simovski

We consider a diffusion process with coefficients that are periodic outside of an "interface region" of finite thickness. The question investigated in this article is the limiting long time/large scale behavior of such a process under…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-20 Martin Hairer , Charles Manson

We study the homogenization problem for a system of stochastic differential equation with local time terms that models a multivariate diffusion in presence of semipermeable hyperplane interfaces with oblique penetration. We show that this…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Olga Aryasova , Ilya Pavlyukevich , Andrey Pilipenko

We introduce a new approach for measuring both the effective medium and the transport properties of light propagation in heterogeneous media. Our method utilizes the conceptual equivalence of frequency variation with a change in the…

Optics · Physics 2009-12-21 Sanli Faez , P. M. Johnson , Ad Lagendijk

The diffusion limit of the linear Boltzmann equation with a strong magnetic field is performed. The giration period of particles around the magnetic field is assumed to be much smaller than the collision relaxation time which is supposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Naoufel Ben Abdallah , Raymond El Hajj

Two-scale homogenization limits of parabolic cross-diffusion systems in a heterogeneous medium with no-flux boundary conditions are proved. The heterogeneity of the medium is reflected in the diffusion coefficients or by the perforated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Ansgar Juengel , Mariya Ptashnyk

We consider a deformable body immersed in an incompressible liquid that is randomly stirred. Sticking to physical situations in which the body departs only slightly from its spherical shape, we calculate the diffusion constant of the body.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gady Frenkel , Moshe Schwartz

We aim at understanding transport in porous materials including regions with both high and low diffusivities. For such scenarios, the transport becomes structured (here: {\em micro-macro}). The geometry we have in mind includes regions of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-23 T. van Noorden , A. Muntean

This paper is concerned with the behavior of the ergodic constant associated with convex and superlinear Hamilton-Jacobi equation in a periodic environment which is perturbed either by medium with increasing period or by a random Bernoulli…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Claude Le Bris , Panagiotis Souganidis

We study the homogenization of a diffusion process which takes place in a binary structure formed by an ambiental connected phase surrounding a suspension of very small spheres distributed in an $\veps$-periodic network. The asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fadila Bentalha , Isabelle Gruais , Dan Polisevski