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In this paper, we address the stability of transport systems and wave propagation on networks with time-varying parameters. We do so by reformulating these systems as non-autonomous difference equations and by providing a suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Yacine Chitour , Guilherme Mazanti , Mario Sigalotti

Self-diffusion along the longitudinal coordinate in a channel of varying cross section is considered. The starting point is the two-dimensional Enskog-Boltzmann-Lorentz kinetic equation with appropriated boundary conditions. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-08 J. Javier Brey , M. I. García de Soria , P. Maynar

We investigate a two-dimensional transmission model consisting of a wave equation and a Kirchhoff plate equation with dynamical boundary controls under geometric conditions. The two equations are coupled through transmission conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Zahraa Abdallah , Stéphane Gerbi , Chiraz Kassem , Ali Wehbe

We prove stability results for nonlinear diffusion equations of the porous medium and fast diffusion types with respect to the nonlinearity power $m$: solutions with fixed data converge in a suitable sense to the solution of the limit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-04 Teemu Lukkari

Continuous-time Markov chains have been successful in modelling systems across numerous fields, with currents being fundamental entities that describe the flows of energy, particles, individuals, chemical species, information, or other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sara Dal Cengio , Pedro E. Harunari , Vivien Lecomte , Matteo Polettini

Networks are widely used to model the interaction between individual dynamical systems. In many instances, the total number of units as well as the interaction coupling are not fixed in time, but rather constantly evolve. In terms of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-19 Melvyn Tyloo

Diffusion processes are instrumental to describe the movement of a continuous quantity in a generic network of interacting agents. Here, we present a probabilistic framework for diffusion in networks and propose to classify agent…

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Known by many names and arising in many settings, the forced linear diffusion model is central to the modeling of power and influence within social networks (while also serving as the mechanistic justification for the widely used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Carter T. Butts

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Sapora , M. Codegone , G. Barbero

We are surrounded by spatio-temporal patterns resulting from the interaction of the numerous basic units constituting natural or human-made systems. In presence of diffusive-like coupling, Turing theory has been largely applied to explain…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Marie Dorchain , S. Nirmala Jenifer , Timoteo Carletti

Conventional studies of network growth models mainly look at the steady state degree distribution of the graph. Often long time behavior is considered, hence the initial condition is ignored. In this contribution, the time evolution of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-10 Babak Fotouhi , Michael Rabbat

The main purpose of this work is to provide an existence and uniqueness result for the solution of a linear parabolic system posed on a star-shaped network, which presents a new type of Kirchhoff's boundary transmission condition at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Miguel Martinez , Isaac Ohavi

We rigorously derive the dense graph limit of a discrete model describing the formation of biological transportation networks. The discrete model, defined on undirected graphs with pressure-driven flows, incorporates a convex energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Nuno J. Alves , Jan Haskovec

Local diffusion coefficients in disordered systems such as spin glass systems and living cells are highly heterogeneous and may change over time. Such a time-dependent and spatially heterogeneous environment results in irreproducibility of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-21 Takuma Akimoto , Eiji Yamamoto

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of spreading processes taking place over time-varying networks. A common approach to model time-varying networks is via Markovian random graph processes. This modeling approach presents the following…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Masaki Ogura , Victor M. Preciado

A new solution to the mono-dimensional diffusion equation for time-variable first kind boundary condition is presented where the time-variable function at the surface is derived proposing a surface saturation model. This solution may be…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-08 Guglielmo Macrelli

We establish global-in-time existence results for thermodynamically consistent reaction-(cross-)diffusion systems coupled to an equation describing heat transfer. Our main interest is to model species-dependent diffusivities, while at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Julian Fischer , Katharina Hopf , Michael Kniely , Alexander Mielke

The aim of this article is to give several results related to Walsh's spider diffusions living on a star-shaped network that have a spinning measure selected from the own local time of the motion at the vertex (cf.[17]). We prove the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Isaac Ohavi , Miguel Martinez

We study a diffusion process with random space-time dependent coefficients. Moreover the diffusion matrix is allowed to degenerate. An invariance principle is proved provided that the diffusion coefficient is controlled by a time…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Rémi Rhodes