On diffusion in narrow random channels

DOI10.1007/S10955-013-0763-3MaRDI QIDQ393402zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wenqing Hu, Mark Freidlin

Publication date 17 January 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5226

zbMATH Keywords

random environmentBrownian dynamicskinetic theoryaveraging principleaveraging formalismBrownian motors/ratchetsdense fluiddiffusion processes on graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21)

Abstract: We consider in this paper a solvable model for the motion of molecular motors. Based on the averaging principle, we reduce the problem to a diffusion process on a graph. We then calculate the effective speed of transportation of these motors.

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