Category: Transport Processes

Effective transport coefficients of anisotropic disordered materials

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date January 4, 2022

R. Hilfer, J. Hauskrecht

European Physical Journal B 95, 117 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-022-00338-5

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A novel effective medium theory for homogenized transport coefficients of anisotropic mixtures of possibly anisotropic materials is developed. Existing theories for isotropic systems cannot be easily extended, because that would require geometric characterizations of anisotropic connectivity. In this work anisotropic connectivity is characterized by introducing a tensor that is constructed from a histogram of local percolating directions. The construction is inspired by local porosity theory. A large number of known and unknown generalized effective medium approximations for anisotropic media are obtained as limiting special cases from the new theory. Among these limiting cases the limit of strong cylindrical anisotropy is of particular interest. The parameter space of the generalized theory is explored, and the advanced results are applied to experiment.

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fluid flow Porous Media review article Two-Phase Flow

A Brief Review of Capillary Number and its Use in Capillary Desaturation Curves

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date August 9, 2021

H. Guo, K. Song, R. Hilfer

Transport in Porous Media 144, 3-31 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01743-7

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Monday, August 9, 2021

Capillary number, understood as the ratio of viscous force to capillary force, is one of the most important parameters in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). It continues to attract the interest of scientists and engineers, because the nature and quantification of macroscopic capillary forces remains controversial. At least 41 different capillary numbers have been collected here from the literature. The ratio of viscous and capillary force enters crucially into capillary desaturation experiments. Although the ratio is length scale dependent, not all definitions of capillay number depend on length scale, indicating potential inconsistencies between various applications and publications. Recently, new numbers have appeared and the subject continues to be actively discussed. Therefore, a short review seems appropriate and pertinent.

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Mathematical Physics Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Existence and Uniqueness of Nonmonotone Solutions in Porous Media Flow

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date May 5, 2021

R. Steinle, T. Kleiner, P. Kumar, R. Hilfer

Axioms 11, 327 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11070327

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Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a simplified model of immiscible two-phase flow in porous media are obtained in this paper. The mathematical model is a simplified physical model with hysteresis in the flux functions. The resulting semilinear hyperbolic-parabolic equation is expected from numerical work to admit non-monotone imbibition-drainage fronts. We prove the local existence of imbibition-drainage fronts. The uniqueness, global existence, maximal regularity and boundedness of the solutions are also discussed. Methodically, the results are established by means of semigroup theory and fractional interpolation spaces.

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fluid flow Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

A Critical Review of Capillary Number and its Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date August 30, 2020

H. Guo, K. Song, R. Hilfer

SPE Conference Proceedings 2020, SPE-200419-MS (2020)
https://doi.org/10.2118/200419-MS

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Capillary number (Ca), defined as dimensionless ratio of viscous force to capillary force, is one of the most important parameters in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The ratio of viscous and capillary force is scale-dependent. At least 33 different Cas have been proposed, indicating inconsistencies between various applications and publications. The most concise definition containing velocity, interfacial tension and viscosity is most widely used in EOR. Many chemical EOR applications are thus based on the correlation between residual oil saturation (ROS) and Ca, which is also known as capillary desaturation curve (CDC). Various CDCs lead to a basic conclusion of using surfactant to reduce interfacial tension to ultra-low values to get a minimum ROS and maximum displacement efficiency. However, after a deep analysis of Ca and recent new experimental observations, the traditional definition of Ca was found to have many limitations and based on misunderstandings. First, the basic object in EOR is a capillary-trapped oil ganglia, thus Darcy’s law is only valid under certain conditions. Further, many recent tests reported results contradicting previous ones. It seems most Cas cannot account for mixed-wet CDC. The influence of wettability on two-phase flow is important but not reflected in the definition of the Ca. Then, it is certainly very peculiar that, when the viscous and capillary forces acting on a blob are equal, the current most widely used classic Ca is equal to 2.2* 10−3. Ideally, the condition Ca ∼ 1 marks the transition from capillary dominated to viscous-dominated flow, but most Cas cannot fulfill this expectation. These problems are caused by scale dependent flow characterization. It has been proved that the traditional Ca is of microscopic nature. Based on the dynamic characterization of the change of capillary force and viscous force on the macroscopic scale, a macroscopic Ca can well explain these complex results. The requirement of ultra-low IFT from microscopic Ca for surfactant flood is not supported by macroscopic Ca. The effect of increasing water viscosity to EOR is much higher than reducing IFT. Realizing the microscopic nature of the traditional Ca and using CDCs based on the more reasonable macroscopic Ca helps to update screening criteria for chemical flooding.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Capillary number correlations for two-phase flow in porous media

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date August 20, 2020

R. Hilfer

Physical Review E 102, 053103 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.102.053103

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Relative permeabilities and capillary number correlations are widely used for quantitative estimates of enhanced water flood performance in porous media. They enter as essential parameters into reservoir simulations. Experimental capillary number correlations for seven different reservoir rocks and 21 pairs of wetting and nonwetting fluids are analyzed. The analysis introduces generalized local macroscopic capillary number correlations. It eliminates shortcomings of conventional capillary number correlations. Surprisingly, the use of capillary number correlations on reservoir scales may become inconsistent in the sense that the limits of applicability of the underlying generalized Darcy law are violated. The results show that local macroscopic capillary number correlations can distinguish between rock types. The experimental correlations are ordered systematically using a three-parameter fit function combined with a novel fluid pair based figure of merit.

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dielectric relaxation Disordered Systems Glasses Transport Processes

Excess wing physics and nearly constant loss in glasses

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date May 31, 2019

R. Hilfer

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2019, 104007 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/ab38bc

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Friday, May 31, 2019

Excess wings and nearly constant loss are almost universal nonequilibrium phenomena in glass formers. Both lack an accepted theoretical foundation. A model-free and unified theoretical description for these phenomena is presented that encompasses also fast β-processes, emergent Debye peaks, and the relaxation strength of the boson peak. The theory is model-free in the same way as the classical Debye relaxation equation for orientational polarisation. It is based on generalizing time flow from translation semigroups to composite time translation-convolution semigroups. Composite translation-convolution fits have less parameters than traditional fits. They need only one dynamic scaling exponent, while four are needed in Havriliak-Negami fits. For glycerol the single dynamic exponent in the translation-convolution fit is found to be temperature-independent.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Stable Propagation of Saturation Overshoots for Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date March 21, 2017

M. Schneider, T. Köppl, R. Helmig, R. Steinle, R. Hilfer

Transport in Porous Media 121, 621-641 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-017-0977-y

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Propagation of saturationovershoots for two-phaseflow of immiscible and incompressible fluids in porous media is analyzed using different computational methods. In particular, it is investigated under which conditions a given saturation overshoot remains stable while moving through a porous medium. Two standard formulations are employed in this investigation, a fractional flow formulation and a pressure–saturation formulation. Neumann boundary conditions for pressure are shown to emulate flux boundary conditions in homogeneous media. Gravity driven flows with Dirichlet boundary conditions for pressure that model infiltration into heterogeneous media with position-dependent permeability are found to exhibit pronounced saturation overshoots very similar to those seen in experiment.

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fluid flow Porous Media Simulations Two-Phase Flow

Hysteresis in relative permeabilities suffices for propagation of saturation overshoot: A quantitative comparison with experiment

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date December 21, 2016

R. Steinle, R. Hilfer

Physical Review E 95, 043112 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.043112

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Traditional Darcy theory for two-phase flow in porous media is shown to predict the propagation of nonmonotone saturation profiles, also known as saturation overshoot. The phenomenon depends sensitively on the constitutive parameters, on initial conditions, and on boundary conditions. Hysteresis in relative permeabilities is needed to observe the effect. Two hysteresis models are discussed and compared. The shape of overshoot solutions can change as a function of time or remain fixed and time independent. Traveling-wave-like overshoot profiles of fixed width exist in experimentally accessible regions of parameter space. They are compared quantitatively against experiment.

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fluid flow Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Pore-scale displacement mechanisms as a source of hysteresis for two-phase flow in porous media

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date October 16, 2015

S. Schlüter, S. Berg, M. Rücker, R. Armstrong, H.-J. Vogel, R. Hilfer, D. Wildenschild

Water Resources Research 52, 2194-2205 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1002/2015WR018254

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Friday, October 16, 2015

The macroscopic description of the hysteretic behavior of two-phase flow in porous media remains a challenge. It is not obvious how to represent the underlying pore-scale processes at the Darcy-scale in a consistent way. Darcy-scale thermodynamic models do not completely eliminate hysteresis and our findings indicate that the shape of displacement fronts is an additional source of hysteresis that has not been considered before. This is a shortcoming because effective process behavior such as trapping efficiency of CO 2 or oil production during water flooding are directly linked to pore-scale displacement mechanisms with very different front shape such as capillary fingering, flat frontal displacement, or cluster growth. Here we introduce fluid topology, expressed by the Euler characteristic of the nonwetting phase, as a shape measure of displacement fronts. Using two high-quality data sets obtained by fast X-ray tomography, we show that the Euler characteristic is hysteretic between drainage and imbibition and characteristic for the underlying displacement pattern. In a more physical sense, the Euler characteristic can be interpreted as a parameter describing local fluid connectedness. It may provide the closing link between a topological characterization and macroscopic formulations of two-phase immiscible displacement in porous rock. Since fast X-ray tomography is currently becoming a mature technique, we expect a significant growth in high-quality data sets of real time fluid displacement processes in the future. The novel measures of fluid topology presented here have the potential to become standard metrics needed to fully explore them.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Non-monotonic Travelling Wave Fronts in a System of Fractional Flow Equations from Porous Media

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date May 31, 2015

O. Hönig, P. Zegeling, F. Doster, R. Hilfer

Transport in Porous Media 114, 309-340 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-015-0618-2

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Motivated by observations of saturation overshoot, this article investigates generic classes of smooth travelling wave solutions of a system of two coupled nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations resulting from a flux function of high symmetry. All boundary resp. limit value problems of the travelling wave ansatz, which lead to smooth travelling wave solutions, are systematically explored. A complete, visually and computationally useful representation of the five-dimensional manifold connecting wave velocities and boundary resp. limit data is found by using methods from dynamical systems theory. The travelling waves exhibit monotonic, non-monotonic or plateau-shaped behaviour. Special attention is given to the non-monotonic profiles. The stability of the travelling waves is studied by numerically solving the full system of the partial differential equations with an efficient and accurate adaptive moving grid solver.

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fluid flow Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Inﬂuence of Initial Conditions on Propagation, Growth and Decay of Saturation Overshoot

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date November 24, 2014

R. Steinle, R. Hilfer

Transport in Porous Media 111, 369-380 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-015-0598-2

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Monday, November 24, 2014

A sequence of drainage and imbibition shocks within the traditional theory of two-phase immiscible displacement can give rise to shallow non-monotone saturation profiles as shown in Hilfer and Steinle (Eur Phys J Spec Top 223:2323, 2014). This phenomenon depends sensitively on model parameters and initial conditions. The dependence of saturation overshoot on initial conditions is investigated more systematically in this article. The results allow to determine regions in the parameter space for the observation of saturation overshoot and to explore limitations of the underlying idealized hysteresis model. Numerical solutions of the nonlinear partial differential equations of motion reveal a strong dependence of the overshoot phenomenon on the boundary and initial conditions. Overshoot solutions with experimentally detectable height are shown to exist numerically. Extensive parameter studies reveal different classes of initial conditions for which the width of the overshoot region can decrease, increase or remain constant.

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diffusion Fractional Calculus

Experimental Implications of Bochner-Levy-Riesz Diffusion

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date August 18, 2014

R. Hilfer

Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis 18, 333-341 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1515/fca-2015-0022

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Monday, August 18, 2014

Fractional Bochner-Levy-Riesz diffusion arises from ordinary diffusion by replacing the Laplacean with a noninteger power of itself. Bochner- Levy-Riesz diffusion as a mathematical model leads to nonlocal boundary value problems. As a model for physical transport processes it seems to predict phenomena that have yet to be observed in experiment.

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dielectric relaxation Glasses

Excess wings in broadband dielectric spectroscopy

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date July 15, 2014

S. Candelaresi, R. Hilfer

AIP Conference Proceedings 1637, 1283 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907293

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Analysis of excess wings in broadband dielectric spectroscopy data of glass forming materials provides evidence for anomalous time evolutions and fractional semigroups. Solutions of fractional evolution equations in frequency space are used to fit dielectric spectroscopy data of glass forming materials with a range between 4 and 10 decades in frequency. It is shown that with only three parameters (two relaxation times plus one exponent) excellent fits can be obtained for 5-methyl-2-hexanol and for methyl-m-toluate over up to 7 decades. The traditional Havriliak-Negami fit with three parameters (two exponents and one relaxation time) fits only 4-5 decades. Using a second exponent, as in Havriliak-Negami fits, the α-peak and the excess wing can be modeled perfectly with our theory for up to 10 decades for all materials at all temperatures considered here. Traditionally this can only be accomplished by combining two Havriliak-Negami functions with 7 parameters. The temperature dependent relaxation times are fitted with the Vogel-Tammann-Fulcher relation which provides the corresponding Vogel-Fulcher temperatures. The relaxation times turn out to obey almost perfectly the Vogel-Tammann-Fulcher law. Computable expressions of time dependent relaxation functions are also reported.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Saturation overshoot and hysteresis for twophase flow in porous media

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date April 3, 2014

R. Hilfer, R. Steinle

The European Physical Journal ST 223, 2323-2338 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02267-x

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Saturation overshoot and hysteresis for two phase flow in porous media are briefly reviewed. Old and new challenges are discussed. It is widely accepted that the traditional Richards model for twophase flow in porous media does not support non-monotone travelling wave solutions for the saturation profile. As a concequence various extensions and generalizations have been recently discussed. The review highlights different limits within the traditional theory. It emphasizes the relevance of hysteresis in the Buckley–Leverett limit with jump-type hysteresis in the relative permeabilities. Reviewing the situation it emerges that the traditional theory may have been abandoned prematurely because of its inability to predict saturation overshoot in the Richards limit.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

A comparison between simulation and experiment for hysteretic phenomena during two phase immiscible displacement

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date August 21, 2013

F. Doster, R. Hilfer

Water Resources Research 50, 681-686 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1002/2013WR014619

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

The paper compares a theory for immiscible displacement based on distinguishing percolating and nonpercolating fluid parts with experimental observations from multistep outflow experiments. The theory was published in 2006 in Physica A, volume 371, pages 209–225; the experiments were published in 1991 in Water Resources Research, volume 27, pages 2113. The present paper focuses on hysteretic phenomena resulting from repeated cycling between drainage and imbibition processes in multistep pressure experiments. Taking into account, the hydraulic differences between percolating and nonpercolating fluid parts provides a physical basis to predict quantitatively the hysteretic phenomena observed in the experiment. While standard hysteretic extensions of the traditional theory are nonlocal in time the theory used in this paper is local in time. Instead of storing the pressure and saturation history, it requires only the current state of the system to reach the same quantitative agreement.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Travelling Wave Solutions in a Generalized Theory for Macroscopic Capillarity

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date December 20, 2012

O. Hönig, F. Doster, R. Hilfer

Transport in Porous Media 99, 467 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-013-0196-0

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

One-dimensional traveling wave solutions for imbibition processes into a homogeneous porous medium are found within a recent generalized theory of macroscopic capillarity. The generalized theory is based on the hydrodynamic differences between percolating and nonpercolating fluid parts. The traveling wave solutions are obtained using a dynamical systems approach. An exhaustive study of all smooth traveling wave solutions for primary and secondary imbibition processes is reported here. It is made possible by introducing two novel methods of reduced graphical representation. In the first method the integration constant of the dynamical system is related graphically to the boundary data and the wave velocity. In the second representation the wave velocity is plotted as a function of the boundary data. Each of these two graphical representations provides an exhaustive overview over all one-dimensional and smooth solutions of traveling wave type, that can arise in primary and secondary imbibition. Analogous representations are possible for other systems, solution classes, and processes.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Generalized Buckley-Leverett theory for two phase flow in porous media

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date November 23, 2011

F. Doster, R. Hilfer

New Journal of Physics 13, 123030 (2011)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/12/123030

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Hysteresis and fluid entrapment pose unresolved problems for the theory of flow in porous media. A generalized macroscopic mixture theory for immiscible two-phase displacement in porous media (Hilfer 2006b Phys. Rev. E 73 016307) has introduced percolating and nonpercolating phases. It is studied here in an analytically tractable hyperbolic limit. In this limit a fractional flow formulation exists, that resembles the traditional theory. The Riemann problem is solved analytically in one dimension by the method of characteristics. Initial and boundary value problems exhibit shocks and rarefaction waves similar to the traditional Buckley–Leverett theory. However, contrary to the traditional theory, the generalized theory permits simultaneous drainage and imbibition processes. Displacement processes involving flow reversal are equally allowed. Shock fronts and rarefaction waves in both directions in the percolating and the nonpercolating fluids are found, which can be compared directly to experiment.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Horizontal flows and capillarity driven redistribution

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date October 11, 2011

F. Doster, O. Hönig, R. Hilfer

Physical Review E 86, 016317 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.86.016317

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

A recent macroscopic mixture theory for two-phase immiscible displacement in porous media has introduced percolating and nonpercolating phases. Quasi-analytic solutions are computed and compared to the traditional theory. The solutions illustrate physical insights and effects due to spatiotemporal changes of nonpercolating phases, and they highlight the differences from traditional theory. Two initial and boundary value problems are solved in one spatial dimension. In the first problem a fluid is displaced by another fluid in a horizontal homogeneous porous medium. The displacing fluid is injected with a flow rate that keeps the saturation constant at the injection point. In the second problem a horizontal homogeneous porous medium is considered which is divided into two subdomains with different but constant initial saturations. Capillary forces lead to a redistribution of the fluids. Errors in the literature are reported and corrected.

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Porous Media Two-Phase Flow

Nonmonotone Saturation Profiles for Hydrostatic Equilibrium in Homogeneous Media

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date September 30, 2011

R. Hilfer, F. Doster, P. Zegeling

Vadose Zone Journal 11, vzj2012.0021 (2012)
doi:10.2136/vzj2012.0021

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Recently, the observation of nonmonotonicity of traveling wave solutions for saturation profiles during constant flux infiltration experiments has highlighted the shortcomings of the traditional seventy year old mathematical model for immiscible displacement in porous media. Several recent modifications have been proposed to explain these observations. The present paper suggests, that nonmonotone saturations profiles might occur even at zero flux. Specifically, nonmonotonicity of saturation profiles is predicted for hydrostatic equilibrium, when both fluids are at rest. It is argued, that in traditional theories with the widely used singlevalued monotone constitutive functions nonmonotone profiles should not exist in hydrostatic equilibrium. The same applies to some modifications of the traditional theory. Nonmonotone saturation profiles in hydrostatic equilibrium arise within a generalized theory, that contains the traditional theory as a special case. The physical origin of the phenomenon is simultaneous occurrence of imbibition and drainage. It is argued, that indications for nonmonotone saturation profiles in hydrostatic equilibrium might have been observed in past experiments, and could become clearly observable in a closed column experiment.

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dielectric relaxation Fractional Calculus Fractional Time Theory of Time

Applications and Implications of Fractional Dynamics for Dielectric Relaxation

Post author By R Hilfer
Post date September 23, 2011

R. Hilfer

in: Recent Advances in Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
edited by: Y. Kalmykov
Springer, Berlin, 123 (2012)
10.1007/978-94-007-5012-8
978-94-007-5011-1

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This article summarizes briefly the presentation given by the author at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy and its Advanced Technological Applications”, held in Perpignan, France, in September 2011. The purpose of the invited presentation at the workshop was to review and summarize the basic theory of fractional dynamics (Hilfer, Phys Rev E 48:2466, 1993; Hilfer and Anton, Phys Rev E Rapid Commun 51:R848, 1995; Hilfer, Fractals 3(1):211, 1995; Hilfer, Chaos Solitons Fractals 5:1475, 1995; Hilfer, Fractals 3:549, 1995; Hilfer, Physica A 221:89, 1995; Hilfer, On fractional diffusion and its relation with continuous time random walks. In: Pekalski et al. (eds) Anomalous diffusion: from basis to applications. Springer, Berlin, p 77, 1999; Hilfer, Fractional evolution equations and irreversibility. In: Helbing et al. (eds) Traffic and granular flow’99. Springer, Berlin, p 215, 2000; Hilfer, Fractional time evolution. In: Hilfer (ed) Applications of fractional calculus in physics. World Scientific, Singapore, p 87, 2000; Hilfer, Remarks on fractional time. In: Castell and Ischebeck (eds) Time, quantum and information. Springer, Berlin, p 235, 2003; Hilfer, Physica A 329:35, 2003; Hilfer, Threefold introduction to fractional derivatives. In: Klages et al. (eds) Anomalous transport: foundations and applications. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, pp 17– 74, 2008; Hilfer, Foundations of fractional dynamics: a short account. In: Klafter et al. (eds) Fractional dynamics: recent advances. World Scientific, Singapore,207, 2011) and demonstrate its relevance and application to broadband dielectric spectroscopy (Hilfer, J Phys Condens Matter 14:2297, 2002; Hilfer, Chem Phys 284:399, 2002; Hilfer, Fractals 11:251, 2003; Hilfer et al., Fractional Calc Appl Anal 12:299, 2009). It was argued, that broadband dielectric spectroscopy might be useful to test effective field theories based on fractional dynamics.

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