Module 6:Random walks and related areas
  Lecture 24:Random woalk and other areas
 

 

Ehrenfest Model

This is discrete model of diffusion through a membrane, something like osmosis. Imagine two cells have a total of  particles. A particle is selected at random and moved into the other container at each time period, . For the explanation of this concept one can refer to the Figure 6.1 where we consider it to be a discrete time discrete state process:

Figure 6.1: Ehrenfest model