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The diffusive transport of particles in anisotropic media is a fundamental phenomenon in computational, medical and biological disciplines. While deterministic models (partial differential equations) of such processes are well established,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Luke P. Filippini , Adrianne L. Jenner , Elliot J. Carr

For certain materials science scenarios arising in rubber technology, one-dimensional moving boundary problems (MBPs) with kinetic boundary conditions are capable of unveiling the large-time behavior of the diffusants penetration front,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Surendra Nepal , Magnus Ogren , Yosief Wondmagegne , Adrian Muntean

In this thesis, we study the diffusive and ballistic behaviors of random walk in random environment (RWRE) in an integer lattice with dimension at least 2. Our contributions are in three directions: a conditional law of large numbers and…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-08 Xiaoqin Guo

The horizontal dynamics of a bouncing ball interacting with an irregular surface is investigated and is found to demonstrate behavior analogous to a random walk. Its stochastic character is substantiated by the calculation of a permutation…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-15 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

Random walk has wide applications in many fields, such as machine learning, biology, physics, and chemistry. Random walk can be discrete or continuous in time and space. Asymmetric random walk could be described by drift-diffusion equation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-01 Guoxing Lin , Shaokun Zheng

Modelling the propagation of a pulse in a dense {\em milieu} poses fundamental challenges at the theoretical and applied levels. To this aim, in this paper we generalize the telegraph equation to non-ideal conditions by extending the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Francesco Piazza

We study a symmetric random walk (RW) in one spatial dimension in environment, formed by several zones of finite width, where the probability of transition between two neighboring points and corresponding diffusion coefficient are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-03 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

The operation of squaring (coproduct followed by product) in a combinatorial Hopf algebra is shown to induce a Markov chain in natural bases. Chains constructed in this way include widely studied methods of card shuffling, a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Persi Diaconis , C. Y. Amy Pang , Arun Ram

We propose random walks on suitably defined graphs as a framework for finescale modeling of particle motion in an obstructed environment where the particle may have interactions with the obstructions and the mean path length of the particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Preston Donovan , Muruhan Rathinam

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on fractional diffusion equations and related random walk models. The fundamental solutions of these equations can be interpreted as probability densities evolving in time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi

We study memory based random walk models to understand diffusive motion in crowded heterogeneous environment. The models considered are non-Markovian as the current move of the random walk models is determined by randomly selecting a move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Sabeeha Hasnain , Upendra Harbola , Pradipta Bandyopadhyay

We introduce the pushy random walk, where a walker can push multiple obstacles, thereby penetrating large distances in environments with finite obstacle density. This process provides a minimal model for experimentally observed interactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ofek Lauber Bonomo , Itamar Shitrit , Shlomi Reuveni , Sidney Redner

In this paper the multi-dimensional random walk models governed by distributed fractional order differential equations and multi-term fractional order differential equations are constructed. The scaling limits of these random walks to a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sabir Umarov , Stanly Steinberg

A non--linear diffusion equation is derived by taking into account hopping rates depending on the occupation of next neighbouring sites. There appears additonal repulsive and attractive forces leading to a changed local mobiltiy. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Artz , M. Schulz , S. Trimper

We show through intensive simulations that the paradigmatic features of anomalous diffusion are indeed the features of a (continuous-time) random walk driven by two different Markovian hopping-trap mechanisms. If $p \in (0,1/2)$ and $1-p$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-25 Silvia Vitali , Paolo Paradisi , Gianni Pagnini

Complex networks are characterized by latent geometries induced by their topology or by the dynamics on the top of them. In the latter case, different network-driven processes induce distinct geometric features that can be captured by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-07 Giulia Bertagnolli , Manlio De Domenico

Random walks are a fundamental model in applied mathematics and are a common example of a Markov chain. The limiting stationary distribution of the Markov chain represents the fraction of the time spent in each state during the stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , David F. Gleich , Lek-Heng Lim

In this paper we present analytical and random walk based solutions to diffusion in semi-permeable layered media with varying diffusivity. We propose a new random walk transit model (hybrid model) based on treating the membrane permeability…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Ignasi Alemany , Jan N. Rose , Jérôme Garnier-Brun , Andrew D. Scott , Denis J. Doorly

Random walks with a general, nonlinear barrier have found recent applications ranging from reionization topology to refinements in the excursion set theory of halos. Here, we derive the first-crossing distribution of random walks with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun Zhang , Lam Hui

The random walk process in a nonhomogeneous medium, characterised by a L\'evy stable distribution of jump length, is discussed. The width depends on a position: either before the jump or after that. In the latter case, the density slope is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-29 Tomasz Srokowski