Random walks, random flows, and enhanced diffusivity in advection-diffusion equations

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2012.17.1261MaRDI QIDQ423836zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Taylor

Publication date 30 May 2012

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.1261

zbMATH Keywords

advection-diffusionenhanced diffusivityfluid flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Diffusion processes (60J60)

Review text

The author studies the phenomenon of enhanced diffusivity, introduced by G. I. Taylor, for a class of advection-diffusion equations, modeling, for example, the spread of an ink drop in a fluid engaged in Poiseuille flow. He considers such flow in a pipe of general cross section and computes variances and covariances of certain random flows associated with the advection-diffusion. He examines both long-time behavior, including a central limit theorem, and short-time asymptotics.

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