Effective rates in dilute reaction-advection systems for the annihilation process \(A+A\to\emptyset\) (Q2440345)

In this paper the authors considered a dilute system of reacting particles transported by fluid flows, in which the particles react as \(A + A \to \emptyset \) with a given rate when they are within a finite radius of interaction. The system is described by the joint \(n\)-point number spatial density that obey a hierarchy of transport equations. They obtained an analytic solution to the dilute and asymptotic limit by using a Lagrangian approach where statistical averages are performed along non-reacting trajectories. In this limit, the moments of the number of particles have an exponential decay rather than the algebraic prediction of standard mean-field approaches, and the effective reaction rate is related to Lagrangian pair statistics by a large-deviation principle. In particular, they introduced a phenomenological model to study the qualitative behavior of the effective rate as a function of the interaction length, the degree of chaoticity of the dynamics and the compressibility of the carrier flow. By the Feynman--Kac approach, they obtained some numerical results