Monday, December 3, 2012

1211.7233 (Giorgio Krstulovic et al.)

Effective rates in dilute reaction-advection systems    [PDF]

Giorgio Krstulovic, Massimo Cencini, Jeremie Bec
A dilute system of reacting particles transported by fluid flows is considered. The particles react as A+A \to inert with a given rate when they are within a finite radius of interaction. The system is described in terms of the joint n-point number spatial density that it is shown to obey a hierarchy of transport equations. An analytic solution is obtained in either the dilute or the long-time limit by using a Lagrangian approach where statistical averages are performed along non- reacting trajectories. In this limit, it is shown that the moments of the number of particles have an exponential decay rather than the algebraic prediction of standard mean-field approaches. The effective reaction rate is then related to Lagrangian pair statistics by a large-deviation principle. A phenomenological model is introduced to study the qualitative behavior of the effective rate as a function of the interaction length, the degree of chaoticity of the dynamics and the compressibility of the carrier flow. Numerical simulations in a smooth, compressible, random delta-correlated-in-time Gaussian velocity field support the proposed heuristic approach.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7233

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