Anomalous diffusion in a randomly modulated velocity field

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple model of anomalous diffusion, in which a particle moves with the velocity field induced by a single “dipole” (a doublet or a pair of source and sink), whose moment is modulated randomly at each time step. A motivation to introduce such a model is that it may serve as a toy model to investigate an anomalous diffusion of fluid particles in turbulence. We perform a numerical simulation of the fractal dimension of the trajectory using periodic boundary conditions in two and three dimensions. For a wide range of the dipole moment, we estimate the fractal dimension of the trajectory to be 1.5–1.9 (2D) and 1.6–2.7 (3D).