Cerbelli S. Critical dispersion of advecting-diffusing tracers in periodic landscapes of hard-wall symmetric potentials.
PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013;
87:060102. [PMID:
23848611 DOI:
10.1103/physreve.87.060102]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2013] [Revised: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
Large-scale, time-asymptotic dispersion properties of diffusing tracers dragged by a uniform drive through a two-dimensional periodic lattice of hard-wall symmetric potentials are investigated. Dispersion is quantified by a typically anisotropic effective diffusivity tensor D, whose eigenvalues and eigenvectors depend on the dimensionless bare diffusivity 1/Pe for each given lattice geometry. Attention is focused on critical lattice geometries yielding sustained macroscale dispersion D([perpendicular]) along the direction orthogonal to the uniform drive in the limit where Pe→∞. A simple one-dimensional model is proposed, which predicts the anomalous scaling D([perpendicular])~1/[A(1)+A(2)log(Pe)].
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