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This note provides a simple derivation of the overdamped approximation for kinetic (or underdamped) equilibrium Langevin dynamics, in cases where certain coefficients depend on the position variable. The equivalent small-mass limit of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Noé Blassel

This review concerns recent results on the quantitative study of convergence towards the stationary state for spatially inhomogeneous kinetic equations. We focus on analytical results obtained by means of certain probabilistic techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Havva Yoldaş

We study the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation on the whole space with a confining potential. We show quantitative rates of exponential convergence to equilibrium in a well chosen Wasserstein-1 distance. We use the Wasserstein-1 version of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Josephine Evans

We study hypocoercivity for a class of linear and linearized BGK models for discrete and continuous phase spaces. We develop methods for constructing entropy functionals that prove exponential rates of relaxation to equilibrium. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Anton Arnold , Eric A. Carlen

In this paper, we consider the spatially inhomogeneous diffusively driven inelastic Boltzmann equation in different cases: the restitution coefficient can be constant or can depend on the impact velocity (which is a more physically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Isabelle Tristani

In this work, we study a class of nonlocal-in-time kinetic models of incompressible dilute polymeric fluids. The system couples a macroscopic balance of linear momentum equation with a mezoscopic subdiffusive Fokker-Planck equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Marvin Fritz , Endre Süli , Barbara Wohlmuth

We prove quantitative decay rates for the linearised Vlasov-Poisson system around compactly supported equilibria. More precisely, we prove decay of the gravitational potential induced by the radial dynamics of this system in the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Mahir Hadzic , Matthew Schrecker

In this note we establish hypocoercivity and exponential relaxation to the Maxwellian for a class of kinetic Fokker-Planck-Alignment equations arising in the studies of collective behavior. Unlike previously known results in this direction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Roman Shvydkoy

In this paper, we first extend the micro-macro decomposition method for multiscale kinetic equations from the BGK model to general collisional kinetic equations, including the Boltzmann and the Fokker-Planck Landau equations. The main idea…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Irene M. Gamba , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

We introduce a new probabilistic approach to quantify convergence to equilibrium for (kinetic) Langevin processes. In contrast to previous analytic approaches that focus on the associated kinetic Fokker-Planck equation, our approach is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Andreas Eberle , Arnaud Guillin , Raphael Zimmer

In this paper, we propose a novel conservative formulation for solving kinetic equations via neural networks. More precisely, we formulate the learning problem as a constrained optimization problem with constraints that represent the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Hyung Ju Hwang , Hwijae Son

We study the well-posedness, steady states and long time behavior of solutions to Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation with external confinement potential and nonlinear self-consistent interactions. Our analysis introduces newly characterized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Pierre Gervais , Maxime Herda

We investigate the existence of steady states and exponential decay for hypocoercive Fokker--Planck equations on the whole space with drift terms that are linear in the position variable. For this class of equations, we first establish that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Anton Arnold , Jan Erb

We study the long time behaviour of the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with mean field interaction, whose limit is often called Vlasov-Fkker-Planck equation. We prove a uniform (in the number of particles) exponential convergence to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Arnaud Guillin , Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

The use of limiting methods for high-order numerical approximations of hyperbolic conservation laws generally requires defining an admissible region/bounds for the solution. In this work, we present a novel approach for computing solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Tarik Dzanic , Luigi Martinelli

This work is concerned with the development of a family of Galerkin finite element methods for the classical Kolmogorov's equation. Kolmogorov's equation serves as a sufficiently rich, for our purposes, model problem for kinetic-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Emmanuil H. Georgoulis

We develop the kinetic theory of Hamiltonian systems with weak long-range interactions. Starting from the Klimontovich equation and using a quasilinear theory, we obtain a general kinetic equation that can be applied to spatially…

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

In this lectures given at the Morning side center of Mathematics in October 2016, we present in a very simple framework Hilbertian hypocoercive methods in the case of 1d kinetic inhomogeneous equations, and some illustrations concerning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Frédéric Hérau

This paper studies convergence to equilibrium for the spatially inhomogeneous linear relaxation Boltzmann equation in Boltzmann entropy and related entropy functionals the $p$-entropies. Villani proved in \cite{V09} entropic hypocoercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Josephine Evans

Systems with long range interactions present generically the formation of quasi-stationary long-lived non-equilibrium states. These states relax to Boltzmann equilibrium following a dynamics which is not well understood. In this paper we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Marcos