220 research outputs found
Nonreactive solute transport in soil columns: classical and fractional-calculus modeling
Vertical nonreactive solute transport data collected in three laboratory soil columns (made out of sediment samples from the Pampean aquifer located southeast of the Buenos Aires province) are contrasted with the explicit solutions of two model 1D linear PDEs: the classical advection–dispersion equation (ADE), and a fractional advection–dispersion equation (FADE) which has proven to be a useful modeling tool for highly inhomogeneous media exhibiting nontrivial scaling laws. Whereas two of the samples turn out to be quite homogeneous (thus requiring a fractional-derivative order γ → 2), the third one is best described by a FADE with fractional-derivative order γ = 1.68. This example illustrates the FADE’s ability to reveal self-similar geometric structures inside the sample.Fil: Benavente, Micaela Andrea. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Matemática; ArgentinaFil: Deza, Roberto Raul. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de FÃsica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientÃficas y Técnicas. Centro CientÃfico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones FÃsicas de Mar del Plata. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Cs.exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Investigaciones FÃsicas de Mar del Plata; ArgentinaFil: Grondona, Sebastian. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de GeologÃa de Costas y del Cuaternario. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones CientÃficas. Instituto de GeologÃa de Costas y del Cuaternario; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientÃficas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Mascioli, S.. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de GeologÃa de Costas y del Cuaternario. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones CientÃficas. Instituto de GeologÃa de Costas y del Cuaternario; ArgentinaFil: Martinez, Daniel Emilio. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de GeologÃa de Costas y del Cuaternario. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones CientÃficas. Instituto de GeologÃa de Costas y del Cuaternario; Argentin
Finite Larmor radius effects on non-diffusive tracer transport in a zonal flow
Finite Larmor radius (FLR) effects on non-diffusive transport in a
prototypical zonal flow with drift waves are studied in the context of a
simplified chaotic transport model. The model consists of a superposition of
drift waves of the linearized Hasegawa-Mima equation and a zonal shear flow
perpendicular to the density gradient. High frequency FLR effects are
incorporated by gyroaveraging the ExB velocity. Transport in the direction of
the density gradient is negligible and we therefore focus on transport parallel
to the zonal flows. A prescribed asymmetry produces strongly asymmetric non-
Gaussian PDFs of particle displacements, with L\'evy flights in one direction
but not the other. For zero Larmor radius, a transition is observed in the
scaling of the second moment of particle displacements. However, FLR effects
seem to eliminate this transition. The PDFs of trapping and flight events show
clear evidence of algebraic scaling with decay exponents depending on the value
of the Larmor radii. The shape and spatio-temporal self-similar anomalous
scaling of the PDFs of particle displacements are reproduced accurately with a
neutral, asymmetric effective fractional diffusion model.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Physics of Plasma
An inverse Sturm-Liouville problem with a fractional derivative
In this paper, we numerically investigate an inverse problem of recovering
the potential term in a fractional Sturm-Liouville problem from one spectrum.
The qualitative behaviors of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are discussed,
and numerical reconstructions of the potential with a Newton method from finite
spectral data are presented. Surprisingly, it allows very satisfactory
reconstructions for both smooth and discontinuous potentials, provided that the
order of fractional derivative is sufficiently away from 2.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of
Computational Physic
Fractional dynamics of coupled oscillators with long-range interaction
We consider one-dimensional chain of coupled linear and nonlinear oscillators
with long-range power-wise interaction. The corresponding term in dynamical
equations is proportional to . It is shown that the
equation of motion in the infrared limit can be transformed into the medium
equation with the Riesz fractional derivative of order , when
. We consider few models of coupled oscillators and show how their
synchronization can appear as a result of bifurcation, and how the
corresponding solutions depend on . The presence of fractional
derivative leads also to the occurrence of localized structures. Particular
solutions for fractional time-dependent complex Ginzburg-Landau (or nonlinear
Schrodinger) equation are derived. These solutions are interpreted as
synchronized states and localized structures of the oscillatory medium.Comment: 34 pages, 18 figure
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