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R Sánchez1, B A Carreras, B Ph van Milligen
1Departamento de Física, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain. rsanchez@fis.uc3m.es
Abstract:
The fluid limit of a recently introduced family of nonintegrable (nonlinear) continuous-time random walks is derived in terms of fractional differential equations. In this limit, it is shown that the formalism allows for the modeling of the interaction between multiple transport mechanisms with not only disparate spatial scales but also different temporal scales. For this reason, the resulting fluid equations may find application in the study of a large number of nonlinear multiscale transport problems, ranging from the study of self-organized criticality to the modeling of turbulent transport in fluids and plasmas.
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