We discuss particle diffusion in a spatially inhomogeneous medium. From the micro- scopic viewpoint we consider independent particles randomly evolving on a lattice. We show that the reversibility condition has a discrete geometric interpretation in terms of weights associated to un–oriented edges and vertices. We consider the hydrodynamic diffusive scaling that gives, as a macroscopic evolution equation, the Fokker–Planck equa- tion corresponding to the evolution of the probability distribution of a reversible spatially inhomogeneous diffusion process. The geometric macroscopic counterpart of reversibility is encoded into a tensor metrics and a positive function. The Fick’s law with inho- mogeneous diffusion matrix is obtained in the case when the spatial inhomogeneity is associated exclusively with the edge weights. We discuss also some related properties of the systems like a non–homogeneous Einstein relation and the possibility of uphill diffusion.
Fick and Fokker–Planck diffusion law in inhomogeneous media / Andreucci, D.; Cirillo, E. N. M.; Colangeli, M.; Gabrielli, D.. - In: JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0022-4715. - 2018:(2019). [10.1007/s10955-018-2187-6]
Fick and Fokker–Planck diffusion law in inhomogeneous media
Andreucci, D.;Cirillo, E. N. M.
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2019
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We discuss particle diffusion in a spatially inhomogeneous medium. From the micro- scopic viewpoint we consider independent particles randomly evolving on a lattice. We show that the reversibility condition has a discrete geometric interpretation in terms of weights associated to un–oriented edges and vertices. We consider the hydrodynamic diffusive scaling that gives, as a macroscopic evolution equation, the Fokker–Planck equa- tion corresponding to the evolution of the probability distribution of a reversible spatially inhomogeneous diffusion process. The geometric macroscopic counterpart of reversibility is encoded into a tensor metrics and a positive function. The Fick’s law with inho- mogeneous diffusion matrix is obtained in the case when the spatial inhomogeneity is associated exclusively with the edge weights. We discuss also some related properties of the systems like a non–homogeneous Einstein relation and the possibility of uphill diffusion.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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