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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1016/j.cam.2015.01.030
Titel (primär) A Fokker–Planck approach for probability distributions of species concentrations transported in heterogeneous media
Autor Suciu, N.; Radu, F.A.; Attinger, S.; Schüler, L.; Knabner, P.
Quelle Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
Department CHS
Band/Volume 289
Seite von 241
Seite bis 252
Sprache englisch
Keywords PDF methods; Mixing; Random walk; Porous media
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Abstract We identify sufficient conditions under which evolution equations for probability density functions (PDF) of random concentrations are equivalent to Fokker–Planck equations. The novelty of our approach is that it allows consistent PDF approximations by densities of computational particles governed by Itô processes in concentration–position spaces. Accurate numerical solutions are obtained with a global random walk (GRW) algorithm, stable, free of numerical diffusion, and insensitive to the increase of the total number of computational particles. The system of Itô equations is specified by drift and diffusion coefficients describing the PDF transport in the physical space, provided by up-scaling procedures, as well as by drift and mixing coefficients describing the PDF transport in concentration spaces. Mixing models can be obtained similarly to classical PDF approaches or, alternatively, from measured or simulated concentration time series. We compare their performance for a GRW-PDF numerical solution to a problem of contaminant transport in heterogeneous groundwater systems.
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Suciu, N., Radu, F.A., Attinger, S., Schüler, L., Knabner, P. (2015):
A Fokker–Planck approach for probability distributions of species concentrations transported in heterogeneous media
J. Comput. Appl. Math. 289 , 241 - 252 10.1016/j.cam.2015.01.030