Displacement of transport processes on networked topologies

DOI10.1137/19M1244251MaRDI QIDQ5235243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel B. Wilson, Francis G. Woodhouse, Ruth E. Baker

Publication date 8 October 2019

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04725

zbMATH Keywords

anomalous diffusiondisplacementnetwork structurestochastic transportwinding statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs on graphs and networks (ramified or polygonal spaces) (35R02) Fractional processes, including fractional Brownian motion (60G22) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Brownian motion (60J65) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: Consider a particle whose position evolves along the edges of a network. One definition for the displacement of a particle is the length of the shortest path on the network between the current and initial positions of the particle. Such a definition fails to incorporate information of the actual path the particle traversed. In this work we consider another definition for the displacement of a particle on networked topologies. Using this definition, which we term the winding distance, we demonstrate that for Brownian particles, confinement to a network can induce a transition in the mean squared displacement from diffusive to ballistic behaviour, $langle{x}^2(t)anglepropto{t}^2$ for long times. A multiple scales approach is used to derive a macroscopic evolution equation for the displacement of a particle and uncover a topological condition for whether this transition in the mean squared displacement will occur. Furthermore, for networks satisfying this topological condition, we identify a prediction of the timescale upon which the displacement transitions to long-time behaviour. Finally, we extend the investigation of displacement on networks to a class of anomalously diffusive transport processes, where we find that the mean squared displacement at long times is affected by both network topology and the character of the transport process.

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