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Operator Lévy motion and multiscaling anomalous diffusion.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  11308473     Owner:  NLM     Status:  PubMed-not-MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The long-term limit motions of individual heavy-tailed (power-law) particle jumps that characterize anomalous diffusion may have different scaling rates in different directions. Operator stable motions [Y(t):t> or =0] are limits of d-dimensional random jumps that are scale-invariant according to c(H)Y(t)=Y(ct), where H is a dxd matrix. The eigenvalues of the matrix have real parts 1/alpha(j), with each positive alpha(j)< or =2. In each of the j principle directions, the random motion has a different Fickian or super-Fickian diffusion (dispersion) rate proportional to t(1/alpha(j)). These motions have a governing equation with a spatial dispersion operator that is a mixture of fractional derivatives of different order in different directions. Subsets of the generalized fractional operator include (i) a fractional Laplacian with a single order alpha and a general directional mixing measure m(straight theta); and (ii) a fractional Laplacian with uniform mixing measure (the Riesz potential). The motivation for the generalized dispersion is the observation that tracers in natural aquifers scale at different (super-Fickian) rates in the directions parallel and perpendicular to mean flow.
Authors:
M M Meerschaert; D A Benson; B Baeumer
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2001-01-25
Journal Detail:
Title:  Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics     Volume:  63     ISSN:  1539-3755     ISO Abbreviation:  Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys     Publication Date:  2001 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2001-04-19     Completed Date:  2004-02-23     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101136452     Medline TA:  Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  021112     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0084, USA. mcubed@unr.edu
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