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Accurate reaction-diffusion limit to the spherical-symmetric Boltzmann equation

  • 1. Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, 9190401 Jerusalem, Israel

Description

We resolve a long-standing question regarding the suitable effective diffusion coefficient of the spherical-symmetric transport equation, which is valid at long times. To that end, we generalize a transport solution in three dimensions for homogeneous media, to include general-collisional properties, including birth-death events and linearly anisotropic scattering. This is done by introducing an exact scaling law relating the Green's function of the pure-scattering case with the general-collision case, which is verified using deterministic and Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, the effective diffusion coefficient is identified by inspecting the transport solution at long times.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L012023;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100003977;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Research
Journal Volume
6
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
6 pgs.
ISSN
2643-1564

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Contract/Grant/Project number
531/20
Notes
These authors contributed equally to this work.; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Israel Science Foundation