M. Kac
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A stochastic model, a random walk, is proposed to describe turbulent diffusion and leads to a hyperbolic equation.
Abstract
We will consider a very simple stochastic model, a random walk. Unfortunately, this model is little known. It has very interesting features and leads not to a diffusion equation but to a hyperbolic one. The model first appeared in the literature in a paper by Sidney Goldstein, known to you mostly because of his work in fluid dynamics. The model had first been proposed by G. I. Taylor — I think in an abortive, or at least not very successful, attempt to treat turbulent diffusion. But the model itself proved to be very interesting. The problem is the following: Suppose you have a lattice of points. I mean discrete, equidistant points as in Figure 1.
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KAC, M. A stochastic model related to the telegrapher's equation. ROCKY MOUNTAIN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS, 1974, 4: 497–510.