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In this paper we introduce a new hierarchical model reduction framework for the Fokker-Planck equation. We reduce the dimension of the equation by a truncated basis expansion in the velocity variable, obtaining a hyperbolic system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Julia Brunken , Tobias Leibner , Mario Ohlberger , Kathrin Smetana

In neuroscience, the distribution of a decision time is modelled by means of a one-dimensional Fokker--Planck equation with time-dependent boundaries and space-time-dependent drift. Efficient approximation of the solution to this equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Udo Boehm , Sonja Cox , Gregor Gantner , Rob Stevenson

We develop a new method to solve the Fokker-Planck or Kolmogorov's forward equation that governs the time evolution of the joint probability density function of a continuous-time stochastic nonlinear system. Numerical solution of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

Large-scale unconstrained optimization is a fundamental and important class of, yet not well-solved problems in numerical optimization. The main challenge in designing an algorithm is to require a few storage locations or very inexpensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Zheng Li , Shi Shu , Jian-Ping Zhang

The probability density function of stochastic differential equations is governed by the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation. A novel machine learning method is developed to solve the general FP equations based on deep neural networks. The proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yong Xu , Hao Zhang , Yongge Li , Kuang Zhou , Qi Liu , Jürgen Kurths

The long time behavior and detailed convergence analysis of Langevin equations has received increased attention over the last years. Difficulties arise from a lack of coercivity, usually termed hypocoercivity, of the underlying kinetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Tobias Breiten , Karl Kunisch

The optimal control of thermally convective flows is usually modeled by an optimization problem with constraints of Boussinesq equations that consist of the Navier-Stokes equation and an advection-diffusion equation. This optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Yongcun Song , Xiaoming Yuan , Hangrui Yue

This work presents an algorithmic scheme for solving the infinite-time constrained linear quadratic regulation problem. We employ an accelerated version of a popular proximal gradient scheme, commonly known as the Forward-Backward Splitting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Giorgos Stathopoulos , Milan Korda , Colin N. Jones

Reducing the fuel consumption within a power network is crucial to enhance the overall system efficiency and minimize operating costs. Fuel consumption minimization can be achieved through different optimization techniques where the output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Md Isfakul Anam , Tuyen Vu

This paper focuses on finding an approximate solution of a kind of Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent perturbations. A formulation of the approximate solution of the equation is constructed, and then the existence of the formulation…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Yan Luo , Kaicheng Sheng

In this paper, we study the numerical schemes for the two-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation governing the probability density function of the tempered fractional Brownian motion. The main challenges of the numerical schemes come from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Xing Liu , Weihua Deng

This paper deals with the analysis of stochastic systems which can be described by a Langevin equation. By the method presented in this paper drift and diffusion terms of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation can be extracted from the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Siegert , R. Friedrich , J. Peinke

Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations play a major role in modeling large systems of interacting particles with a proved effectiveness in describing real world phenomena ranging from classical fields such as fluids and plasma to social and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

In \cite{NRxx}, we proposed a numerical regularized moment method of arbitrary order (abbreviated as NRxx method) for Boltzmann-BGK equation, which makes numerical simulation using very large number of moments possible. In this paper, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-30 Zhenning Cai , Ruo Li , Yanli Wang

In dilute gas kinetic theory, model collision dynamics such as Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model is often used to get a better insight and numerical modelling. BGK model and its variants assume that highly nonlinear collision term can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Samarth Agrawal , S. K. Singh , Santosh Ansumali

The computation of Bayesian estimates of system parameters and functions of them on the basis of observed system performance data is a common problem within system identification. This is a previously studied issue where stochastic…

Computation · Statistics 2018-05-09 Johan Dahlin , Adrian Wills , Brett Ninness

In this paper we deal with the extension of the Fast Kinetic Scheme (FKS) [J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 255, 2013, pp 680-698] originally constructed for solving the BGK equation, to the more challenging case of the Boltzmann equation. The scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Giacomo Dimarco , Raphaël Loubère , Jacek Narski , Thomas Rey

Stochastic optimal control problems with constraints on the probability distribution of the final output are considered. Necessary conditions for optimality in the form of a coupled system of partial differential equations involving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Samuel Daudin

The Fokker-Planck (FP) particle method accelerates rarefied-gas simulations by replacing the binary collisions of the commonly used Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method with a drift=diffusion process. Like all particle methods, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Lukas Netterdon , Veronica Montanaro , Manuel Torrilhon , Hossein Gorji

Motivated by applications arising from large scale optimization and machine learning, we consider stochastic quasi-Newton (SQN) methods for solving unconstrained convex optimization problems. The convergence analysis of the SQN methods,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-02 Farzad Yousefian , Angelia Nedić , Uday Shanbhag