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For fluctuating currents in non-equilibrium steady states, the recently discovered thermodynamic uncertainty relation expresses a fundamental relation between their variance and the overall entropic cost associated with the driving. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-12 Patrick Pietzonka , Felix Ritort , Udo Seifert

When a (frequency-domain) boundary value problem involving a homogeneous linear material is solved to assess the validity of the Post constraint, a conflict arises between the fundamental differential equations of electromagnetism in the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Akhlesh Lakhtakia

An idealized electrostatically actuated microelectromechanical system (MEMS) involving an elastic plate with a heterogeneous dielectric material is considered. Starting from the electrostatic and mechanical energies, the governing evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker

Matter interacting classically with gravity in 3+1 dimensions usually gives rise to a continuum of degrees of freedom, so that, in any attempt to quantize the theory, ultraviolet divergences are nearly inevitable. Here, we investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerard 't Hooft

The study of blow-up solution of time-fractional heat equations is of significant and wide-ranging interest for its multitude of applications. These types of equations are used to model several real problems in science and engineering. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Hind Ghazi Hameed , Burhan Selcuk , Maan A. Rasheed

We study the probability of arbitrary density profiles in conserving diffusive fields which are driven by the boundaries. We demonstrate the existence of singularities in the large-deviation functional, the direct analog of the free-energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-07 Guy Bunin , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky

This paper addresses the problem of evaluating the quality of finite element meshes for the purpose of structural mechanic simulations. It proposes the application of a machine learning model trained on data collected from expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Joachim Sprave , Christian Drescher

The parabolic problem $u_t-\Delta u=\frac{\lambda f(x)}{(1-u)^2}+P$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $R^n$ with Dirichlet boundary condition models the microelectromechanical systems(MEMS) device with an external pressure term. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Lingfeng Zhang , Xiaoliu Wang

In this paper we study a class of physical systems that combine a finite number of mechanical and thermodynamic observables. We call them finite dimensional thermo-mechanical systems. We introduce these systems by means of simple examples.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 Hernán Cendra , Sergio Grillo , Maximiliano Palacios Amaya

The aim of this paper is to draw attention to an interesting semilinear parabolic equation that arose when describing the chaotic dynamics of a polymer molecule in a liquid. This equation is nonlocal in time and contains a term, called the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Victor N. Starovoitov

Scaling analysis exploiting timescale separation has been one of the most important techniques in the quantitative analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems in mathematical and theoretical biology. In the case of enzyme catalyzed reactions,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-21 Justin Eilertsen , Wylie Stroberg , Santiago Schnell

We study the local well-posedness of the solution to a coupled nonlinear elliptic-parabolic system which models electrical discharge in a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS). A simple MEMS capacitor device contains two plates acting as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Heiko Gimperlein , Runan He , Andrew A. Lacey

Power moments, modified moments, and optimized moments are powerful tools for solving microscopic models of macroscopic systems; however the expansion of the density of states as a continued fraction does not converge to the macroscopic…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Roger Haydock , C. M. M. Nex

The boundary value problems for linear and nonlinear singular degenerate differential-operator equations are studied. We prove a well-posedeness of linear problem and optimal regularity result for the nonlinear problem which occur in fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Veli Shakhmurov

Results are presented for the time evolution of fermions initially in a non-zero temperature normal phase, following the switch on of an attractive interaction. The dynamics are studied in the disordered phase close to the critical point,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-09-20 Yonah Lemonik , Aditi Mitra

In this contribution we present how to obtain explicit state space models in port-Hamiltonian form when a mixed finite element method is applied to a linear mechanical system with non-uniform boundary conditions. The key is to express the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

In this article, we study a boundary value problem of a class of singular linear discrete time systems whose coefficients are non-square constant matrices or square with a matrix pencil which has an identically zero determinant. By taking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-27 Ioannis K. Dassios

This paper is devoted to the mathematical analysis of a thermomechanical model describing phase transitions in terms of the entropy and order structure balance law. We consider a macroscopic description of the phenomenon and make a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-04-11 Elena Bonetti , Pierluigi Colli , Mauro Fabrizio , Gianni Gilardi

The objective of our paper is to investigate fractional elliptic equations of the form $(-\Delta)^s u=\frac{\lambda }{(a-u)^2}$ within a bounded domain $\Omega$, subject to zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here, $s\in(0,1)$, $\lambda>0$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Huyuan Chen , Jialei Jiang , Jun Wang

We study the effect of the parameter $\lambda$, the dimension $N$, the profile $f$ and the geometry of the domain $\Omega \subset\mathbb{R}^N$, on the question of uniqueness of the solutions to the following elliptic boundary value problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-08 Nassif Ghoussoub , Pierpaolo Esposito