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Effective transport properties of lattices

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The method of multiple scales is used to calculate the effective macroscopic transport properties of a random walk on a periodic lattice with arbitrary, spatially-dependent transition rates. In contrast to the standard multiple-scales approach for continuous media, the fast scale here is discrete, and only the slow scale is continuous. The solution is found as the discrete probability distribution of finding the particle at a particular node in the unit cell, modulated by a continuous slow function of the position of the unit cell in the macroscopic material. This last function represents the macroscopic drift-diffusion of the particle, with drift and diffusion coefficients calculated in terms of the individual transition probabilities.
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10.1137/16M1092039

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University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Mansfield College
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University of Oxford
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Mansfield College
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Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Volume:
77
Issue:
5
Pages:
1631–1652
Publication date:
2017-09-14
Acceptance date:
2017-04-18
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1095-712X
ISSN:
0036-1399


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2017-04-20

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