https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02317-5
Review
Effective transport equations in quasi 1D systems
Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská c. 9, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia
a e-mail: kalinay@savba.sk
Received: 17 October 2014
Revised: 5 November 2014
Published online: 15 December 2014
The mapping methods reducing 2D or 3D transport equations in quasi 1D structures onto the longitudinal coordinate x are revisited. The general formalism based on homogenization is explained on the simplest case, diffusion in a 2D channel of varying width A(x). Then its modifications to diffusion in an external field (Smoluchowski equation), and nonzero mass of the particles (Klein-Kramers equation) are demonstrated. A special attention is payed to the role of the “natural” curvilinear coordinates, connected with the stationary flow, in the mapping and derivation of the effective equations.
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