Taylor dispersion with absorbing boundaries: A Stochastic Approach

Details Taylor dispersion with absorbing boundaries: A Stochastic Approach Taylor dispersion with absorbing boundaries: A Stochastic Approach

2007-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701392v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 1 figure

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We describe how to solve the problem of Taylor dispersion in the presence of absorbing boundaries using an exact stochastic formulation. In addition to providing a clear stochastic picture of Taylor dispersion, our method leads to closed-form expressions for all the moments of the convective displacement of the dispersing particles in terms of the transverse diffusion eigenmodes. We also find that the cumulants grow asymptotically linearly with time, ensuring a Gaussian distribution in the long-time limit. As a demonstration of the technique, the first two longitudinal cumulants (yielding respectively the effective velocity and the Taylor diffusion constant) as well as the skewness (a measure of the deviation from normality) are calculated for fluid flow in the parallel plate geometry. We find that the effective velocity and the skewness (which is negative in this case) are enhanced while Taylor dispersion is suppressed due to absorption at the boundary.

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