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Transient Anomalous Diffusion In Poiseuille Flow, Marco Latini '01, Andrew J. Bernoff
Transient Anomalous Diffusion In Poiseuille Flow, Marco Latini '01, Andrew J. Bernoff
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We revisit the classical problem of dispersion of a point discharge of tracer in laminar pipe Poiseuille flow. For a discharge at the centre of the pipe we show that in the limit of small non-dimensional diffusion, D, tracer dispersion can be divided into three regimes. For small times (t [double less-than sign] D−1/3), diffusion dominates advection yielding a spherically symmetric Gaussian dispersion cloud. At large times (t [dbl greater-than sign] D−1), the flow is in the classical Taylor regime, for which the tracer is homogenized transversely across the pipe and diffuses with …