Random walks and anomalous diffusion in two-component random media

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Aug;72(2 Pt 1):021104. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.021104. Epub 2005 Aug 18.

Abstract

The diffusion process in a random media consisting of two different components is studied by a random walk model. The latter is described by three parameters, namely, the fraction p of components, the ratio h of the diffusion coefficients in two components, and the parameter x defining a walker's jumps at the boundary. Depending on the values of these parameters the diffusion can be confined, normal, or anomalous (subdiffusion). The subdiffusion occurs, in particular, for h=0 (trapping model) and for x=0 (excluded volume model).

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Complex Mixtures / analysis
  • Complex Mixtures / chemistry*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Diffusion*
  • Models, Biological*
  • Models, Chemical*
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Walking

Substances

  • Complex Mixtures