On hydrodynamic limits in Sinai-type random environments

Claudio Landim, Carlos G. Pacheco, Sunder Sethuraman, Jianfei Xue

Published 2020-05-31Version 1

We investigate the hydrodynamical behavior of a system of random walks with zero-range interactions moving in a common `Sinai-type' random environment on a one dimensional torus. The hydrodynamic equation found is a quasilinear SPDE with a `rough' random drift term coming from a scaling of the random environment and a homogenization of the particle interaction. Part of the motivation for this work is to understand how the space-time limit of the particle mass relates to that of the known single particle Brox diffusion limit. In this respect, given the hydrodynamic limit shown, we describe formal connections through a two scale limit.