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We study the Fokker-Planck equation derived in the large system limit of the Markovian process describing the dynamics of quantitative traits. The Fokker-Planck equation is posed on a bounded domain and its transport and diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Katarina Bodova , Jan Haskovec , Peter Markowich

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

This paper presents new analytical results for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems of partial different equations with small cross-diffusion which describe the macroscopic dynamics of a variety of large systems of interacting particles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Luca Alasio , Helene Ranetbauer , Markus Schmidtchen , Marie-Therese Wolfram

This contribution presents a derivation of the steady-state distribution of velocities and distances of vehicles in freeway traffic which has been suggested for the evaluation of interaction potentials among vehicles (see preprint…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Martin Treiber

Kinetics of metastable systems modeled by Hamiltonians containing nonlocal and nonconservative terms is reproduced by the Fokker-Planck and imaginary time Schrodinger equation scheme with subsequent symplectic integration. Example solutions…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Klotins

We consider a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation derived from a Cucker-Smale model for flocking with noise. There is a known phase transition depending on the noise between a regime with a unique stationary solution which is isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Alexandre Surin

The normalization condition, average values and reduced distribution functions can be generalized by fractional integrals. The interpretation of the fractional analog of phase space as a space with noninteger dimension is discussed. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vasily E. Tarasov

We study, for times of order 1/h, solutions of Maxwell's equations in an O(h^2) modulation of an h-periodic medium. The solutions are of slowly varying amplitude type built on Bloch plane waves with wavelength of order h. We construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Grégoire Allaire , Mariapia Palombaro , Jeffrey Rauch

The paper considers a class of linear Boltzmann transport equations which models a charged particle transport. The equation is an approximation of the original exact transport equation which involves hyper-singular integrals in their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Jouko Tervo

A nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation is obtained in the continuous limit of a one-dimensional lattice with an energy landscape of wells and barriers. Interaction is possible among particles in the same energy well. A parameter $\gamma$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Suárez , M. Hoyuelos , H. Mártin

The reformulation of nonequilibirum thermodynamics, to include the treatment of thermodynamic fluctuations, is applied to the hydrodynamic fluctuations of a simple fluid. It is shown that the nonequilibrium thermodynamic scheme leads to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Rubi , P. Mazur

Lie groups involving potential symmetries are applied in connection with the system of magnetohydrodynamic equations for incompressible matter with Ohm's law for finite resistivity and Hall current in cylindrical geometry. Some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. H. Khater , D. K. Callebaut , S. F. Abdul-Aziz , T. N. Abdelhameed

There is experimental and theoretical evidence that the broad rapidity distribution of net proton yield in central heavy-ion collisions at SPS energies could be a signal of non-equilibrium properties of the system. We show that the broad…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Lavagno

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

In this paper, we study the long-time behaviour of solutions to the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation where the confining potential is non-convex. This is a nonlocal nonlinear partial differential equation describing the time evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Manh Hong Duong , Julian Tugaut

The existence of two stationary solutions of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres or disks is investigated. They are restricted neither to weak dissipation nor to small gradients. The one-particle distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-06 J. Javier Brey , N. Khalil , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We present a Fokker-Planck description of supercooled colloidal systems exhibiting slow relaxation dynamics. By assuming the existence of a local quasi-equilibrium state during the relaxation of the system, we derive a non-Markovian…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 J. M. Rubi , I. Santamaria-Holek , A. Perez-Madrid

Near equilibrium, the symmetric part of the time-integrated steady-state covariance, i.e., the time integral of correlation functions, is governed by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, while the antisymmetric part vanishes due to Onsager…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Timur Aslyamov , Massimiliano Esposito

In this manuscript we deal with a class of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations with the following structure \[ \partial_t u - \div\big(M\nabla u+ E h(u)\big)=0, \] with $M$ a bounded elliptic matrix, $E$ a vector field in a suitable Lebesgue…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Stefano Buccheri , Fernando Farroni , Gabriella Zecca

By examining both the divergence of the velocity vector in orthogonal Cartesian coordinate space $\mathbf{\Gamma} $ of dimension $\R^{\textrm {2fN}}$ and the structure of the Hamiltonian determining a system trajectory, it is shown that the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher G. Jesudason