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A recently introduced nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, derived directly from a master equation, comes out as a very general tool to describe phenomenologically systems presenting complex behavior, like anomalous diffusion, in the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Veit Schwammle , Evaldo M. F. Curado , Fernando D. Nobre

We exhibit some arguments in favour of an H-theorem for a generalization of the Boltzmann equation including non-conservative interactions and a linear Fokker-Planck-like thermostatting term. Such a non-linear equation describing the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-12 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Angelo Vulpiani

We investigate a family of generalized Fokker-Planck equations that contains Richardson and porous media equations as members. Considering a confining drift term that is related to an effective potential, we show that each equation of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Max Jauregui , Anna L. F. Lucchi , Jean H. Y. Passos , Renio S. Mendes

In this work, we study the formal connections between the non-linear Fokker-Planck Equation associated with the non-additive entropy and the Boltzmann Equation with the non-additive correlation functional. The collisional term following the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-23 Airton Deppman , Alireza K. Golmankhaneh , Eugenio Megias , Roman Pasechnik

In the present effort we consider the most general non linear particle kinetics within the framework of the Fokker-Planck picture. We show that the kinetics imposes the form of the generalized entropy and subsequently we demonstrate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Kaniadakis

We present an argument which intends to explore a potential geometric origin of a class of non-linear Fokker-Planck equations related to the mesoscopic behavior of systems conjecturally described by the $q$-entropy. We argue that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-18 Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos

We discuss a general class of nonlinear mean-field Fokker-Planck equations [P.H. Chavanis, Phys. Rev. E, 68, 036108 (2003)] and show their applications in different domains of physics, astrophysics and biology. These equations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Particle-based stochastic approximations of the Boltzmann equation are popular tools for simulations of non-equilibrium gas flows, for which the Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations fail to provide accurate description. However, these numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Veronica Montanaro , Lukas Netterdon , Manuel Torrilhon , Hossein Gorji

We consider three classes of linear non-symmetric Fokker-Planck equations having a unique steady state and establish exponential convergence of solutions towards the steady state with explicit (estimates of) decay rates. First,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Anton Arnold , Dominik Stürzer

We study the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation on graphs, which is the gradient flow in the space of probability measures supported on the nodes with respect to the discrete Wasserstein metric. The energy functional driving the gradient flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Shui-Nee Chow , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

Inspired by the modeling of grain growth in polycrystalline materials, we consider a nonlinear Fokker-Plank model, with inhomogeneous diffusion and with variable mobility parameters. We develop large time asymptotic analysis of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Yekaterina Epshteyn , Chang Liu , Chun Liu , Masashi Mizuno

We extend a recently introduced free-energy formalism for homogeneous Fokker-Planck equations to a wide, and physically appealing, class of inhomogeneous nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations. In our approach, the free-energy functional is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Gabriele Sicuro , Peter Rapčan , Constantino Tsallis

In this work, Holder continuity is obtained for solutions to the nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Planck Equation, and to a family of related equations with general integro-differential operators. These equations can be seen as a generalization of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Logan F. Stokols

We interpret a class of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with reaction as gradient flows over the space of Radon measures equipped with the recently introduced Hellinger-Kantorovich distance. The driving entropy of the gradient flow is not…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Stanislav Kondratyev , Dmitry Vorotnikov

Recently, several authors have tried to extend the usual concepts of thermodynamics and kinetic theory in order to deal with distributions that can be non-Boltzmannian. For dissipative systems described by the canonical ensemble, this leads…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The entropy production rate of nonequilibrium systems is studied via the Fokker-Planck equation. This approach, based on the entropy production rate equation given by Schnakenberg from a master equation, requires information of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-10 Haitao Yu , Jiulin Du

We derive non-linear stochastic Fokker-Planck equation from stochastic systems particles with individual and environmental noise via relative entropy method, with pathwise quantitative bounds. Moreover, we prove the existence of a unique…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Christian Olivera , Alexandre B. de Souza

Anomalous diffusion and power-law distributions are observed in various complex systems. To provide a consistent dynamical foundation for these phenomena, we present a geometric derivation of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Hiroki Suyari

Many efforts have been made to explore systems that show significant deviations from predictions related to the standard statistical mechanics. The present work introduces a unified formalism that connects divergences, generalized free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Anna L. F. Lucchi , Jean H. Y. Passos , Max Jauregui , Renio S. Mendes

We present a new approach to analyze homogeneous nucleation based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The starting point is the formulation of a Gibbs equation for the variations of the entropy of the system, whose state is characterized by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reguera Lopez , J. M. Rubi , A. Perez-Madrid
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