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3.9 <strong>Diffusion</strong>Consider a basin filled <strong>with</strong> water, and in the middle of this basin, <strong>with</strong>in the fluid, let there bedistributed particles of the same kind in a comparatively small region (see Figure 3.6 (a)). After afinite time interval by monitoring our basin again, we observe that the area in which the particlesare distributed, is augmented. Some times later it is even much more enhanced and so on, until theparticles are distributed equally over the whole basin.Mathematically expressed: When the initial distribution is delta-shaped f (x,t 0 ) = δ(x − x 0 ), thenafter a time t 1 > 0, we have a Gaussian distribution function which is broadening over time (seeFigure 3.6 (b))[ ]f (x) = √ 1 (x − µ)2exp − 2πσ 2σ 2 ,<strong>with</strong> mean µ and variance σ.Basin <strong>with</strong> watert 0 =0 t 1 0 t 2 ≫t 1Area, in which the particles are distributedf x(a)x(b)Figure 3.6: Schematic representation of the diffusion phenomenon. (a) A basin filled <strong>with</strong> water,and a particle concentration in a small area of the basin which due to diffusion propagatesin time, until it is distributed equally over the whole basin. (b) Mathematicallythis phenomenon is represented by a Gaussian distribution function that is broadeningover time.29

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