Mean exit time for surface-mediated diffusion: spectral analysis and asymptotic behavior

DOI10.1007/S13324-015-0098-0zbMATH Open1330.35454arXiv1404.5814OpenAlexW1979487782MaRDI QIDQ895504FDOQ895504

Authors: L. Phun, Raphael Voituriez, Michel Zinsmeister, O. Bénichou, D. S. Grebenkov, Luc Hillairet 

Publication date: 3 December 2015

Published in: Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a model of surface-mediated diffusion with alternating phases of pure bulk and surface diffusion. For this process, we compute the mean exit time from a disk through a hole on the circle. We develop a spectral approach to this escape problem in which the mean exit time is explicitly expressed through the eigenvalues of the related self-adjoint operator. This representation is particularly well suited to investigate the asymptotic behavior of the mean exit time in the limit of large desorption rate $lambda$. For a point-like target, we show that the mean exit time diverges as $sqrtlambda$. For extended targets, we establish the asymptotic approach to a finite limit. In both cases, the mean exit time is shown to asymptotically increase as $lambda$ tends to infinity. We also revise the optimality regime of surface-mediated diffusion. Although the presentation is limited to the unit disk, the spectral approach can be extended to other domains such as rectangles or spheres.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5814

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic behaviorsurface-mediated diffusion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion processes (60J60) Brownian motion (60J65) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82)

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