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Isotropic model of fractional transport in two-dimensional bounded domains

A. Kullberg1, D. del-Castillo-Negrete2, G. J. Morales1, and J. E. Maggs1

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
  • 2Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-8071, USA

Phys. Rev. E 87, 052115 – Published 13 May, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.052115

Abstract

A two-dimensional fractional Laplacian operator is derived and used to model nonlocal, nondiffusive transport. This integro-differential operator appears in the long-wavelength, fluid description of quantities undergoing non-Brownian random walks without characteristic length scale. To study bounded domains, a mask function is introduced that modifies the kernel in the fractional Laplacian and removes singularities at the boundary. Green's function solutions to the fractional diffusion equation are presented for the unbounded domain and compared to the one-dimensional Cartesian approximations. A time-implicit numerical integration scheme is presented to study fractional diffusion in a circular disk with azimuthal symmetry. Numerical studies of steady-state reveal temperature profiles in which the heat flux and temperature gradient are in the same direction, i.e., uphill transport. The response to off-axis heating, scaling of confinement time with system size, and propagation of cold pulses are investigated.

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