Talk
Unification of diffusion and reaction: derivation of the law of mass action
- Mark Peletier (University of Technology Eindhoven)
Abstract
Over the last ten years it has become understood how many diffusion equations can be equipped with a gradient-flow structure, based on the entropy as the driving force and the Wasserstein distance as the opposing 'brake'. In this talk I shall describe recent efforts to also bring reactions into this structure, by describing the reaction process as a Brownian motion in a chemical-energy landscape.
