First Passage Time in a Two-Layer System

Details First Passage Time in a Two-Layer System First Passage Time in a Two-Layer System

1994-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9407057v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

LaTeX, 28 pages, 7 figures not included

Scientific paper

10.1007/BF02181208

As a first step in the first passage problem for passive tracer in stratified porous media, we consider the case of a two-dimensional system consisting of two layers with different convection velocities. Using a lattice generating function formalism and a variety of analytic and numerical techniques, we calculate the asymptotic behavior of the first passage time probability distribution. We show analytically that the asymptotic distribution is a simple exponential in time for any choice of the velocities. The decay constant is given in terms of the largest eigenvalue of an operator related to a half-space Green's function. For the anti-symmetric case of opposite velocities in the layers, we show that the decay constant for system length $L$ crosses over from $L^{-2}$ behavior in diffusive limit to $L^{-1}$ behavior in the convective regime, where the crossover length $L^*$ is given in terms of the velocities. We also have formulated a general self-consistency relation, from which we have developed a recursive approach which is useful for studying the short time behavior.

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