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We use the Fokker-Planck equation and its moment equations to study the collective behavior of interacting particles in unsteady one-dimensional flows. Particles interact according to a long-range attractive and a short-range repulsive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-05 Maryam Abedi , Mir Abbas Jalali

Brownian motion, as one of the most fundamental concepts in statistical physics, has everlasting interests in interdisciplinary fields in the past century. Although this motion with static potentials have been widely explored, its physics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Boxuan Han , Zeyu Rao , Ming Gong

The new scheme of stochastic quantization is proposed. This quantization procedure is equivalent to the deformation of an algebra of observables in the manner of deformation quantization with an imaginary deformation parameter (the Planck…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-06-13 P. O. Kazinski

This article is the exploration of the viewpoint within which propelled particles in a steady-state are regarded as a system with quenched disorder. The analogy is exact when the rate of the drift orientation vanishes and the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-10 Derek Frydel

We study the deterministic dynamics of non-interacting classical gas particles confined to a one-dimensional box as a pedagogical toy model for the relaxation of the Boltzmann distribution towards equilibrium. Hard container walls alone…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-06-28 Florian Gebhard , Kevin zu Muenster

We present a concise derivation of the Boltzmann form for single-particle energy distributions in classical many-body Hamiltonian systems. The derivation relies on two physical facts: coarse-graining-scale invariance of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Weicheng Fu , Yisen Wang , Yong Zhang , Hong Zhao

We establish asymptotic diffusion limits of the non-classical transport equation derived in [E. W. Larsen, A generalized Boltzmann equation for non-classical particle transport, Joint international topical meeting on mathematics &…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Martin Frank , Weiran Sun

Arnold showed that the Euler equations of an ideal fluid describe geodesics on the Lie algebra of incompressible vector fields. We generalize this to fluids with dissipation and Gaussian random forcing. The dynamics is determined by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. G. Rajeev

We examine the validity of the Fokker-Planck equation with linear force coefficients as an approximation to the kinetic equation of nucleation in homogeneous isothermal multicomponent condensation. Starting with a discrete equation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuri S. Djikaev , Eli Ruckenstein , Mark Swihart

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

In this paper we study the Fokker-Plank equation arising in a model which describes the charge and discharge process of ion-lithium batteries. In particular we focus our attention on slow reaction regimes with non-negligible entropic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-23 Stefano Scrobogna , Juan J. L. Velázquez

The Boltzmann equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation that plays a central role in statistical mechanics. From the mathematical point of view, the existence of global smooth solutions for arbitrary initial data is an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Cyril Imbert , Luis Silvestre

An explicit solution of the stationary one dimensional half-space boundary value problem for the linear Boltzmann equation is presented in the presence of an arbitrarily high constant external field. The collision kernel is assumed to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 C. Dalitz , E. H. de Groot

We show that the general two-variable Langevin equations with inhomogeneous noise and friction can generate many different forms of power-law distributions. By solving the corresponding stationary Fokker-Planck equation, we can obtain a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jiulin Du

The convergence of Boltzmann Fokker Planck solution can become arbitrarily slow with iterative procedures like source iteration. This paper derives and investigates a nonlinear diffusion acceleration scheme for the solution of the Boltzmann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Japan K. Patel , Barry D. Ganapol , Martha M. Matuszak

I report a study of the nonstationary one-dimensional Fokker-Planck solutions by means of the strictly isospectral method of supesymmetric quantum mechanics. The main conclusion is that this technique can lead to a space-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 H. C. Rosu

In this paper we analyze the global existence of classical solutions to the initial boundary-value problem for a nonlinear parabolic equation describing the collective behavior of an ensemble of neurons. These equations were obtained as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-08 José A. Carrillo , María d. M. González , Maria P. Gualdani , Maria E. Schonbek

In the paper, we study the plane Couette flow of a rarefied gas between two parallel infinite plates at $y=\pm L$ moving relative to each other with opposite velocities $(\pm \alpha L,0,0)$ along the $x$-direction. Assuming that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Tong Yang

This paper derives the Fokker-Planck (FP) equation for a particle moving in potential by a randomly modulated dipole. The FP equation describes the anomalous diffusion observed in the companion paper [1] and breaks the conservation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 S. Katagiri , Y. Matsuo , Y. Matsuoka , A. Sugamoto

Starting from a Langevin description of active particles that move with constant speed in infinite two-dimensional space and its corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, we develop a systematic method that allows us to obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-06 Francisco J. Sevilla , Luis A. Gomez Nava