Monte Carlo investigation of anomalous transport in presence of a discontinuity and of an advection field

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 377, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 448-464

  Marseguerra, M ^a   Zoia, A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advection field; CTRW; Heterogeneity; Monte Carlo; Random walk; Semi Markovian processes; Subdiffusion

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADVECTION FIELD; HETEROGENEITY; RANDOM WALK; SEMI-MARKOVIAN PROCESSES; SUBDIFFUSION;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 33846706972     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.083     Document Type: Article

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