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We demonstrate the results of the numerical modelling of a plane two-dimensional viscous incompressible flow in a channel with a back-step. As a mathematical model we take equations for a incompressible flow based on the quasi-hydrodynamic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. G. Elizarova , I. S. Kalachinskaya , Yu. V. Sheretov

Understanding the intricate non-convex training dynamics of softmax-based models is crucial for explaining the empirical success of transformers. In this article, we analyze the gradient flow dynamics of the value-softmax model, defined as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Aditya Varre , Mark Rofin , Nicolas Flammarion

This paper addresses the gradient flow -- the continuous-time representation of the gradient method -- with the smooth approximation of a non-differentiable objective function and presents convergence analysis framework. Similar to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Mitsuru Toyoda , Akatsuki Nishioka , Mirai Tanaka

Double diffusive convection (DDC), which is the buoyancy driven flow with fluid density depending on two scalar components, is ubiquitous in many natural and engineering enviroments. Of great interests are scalers transfer rate and flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-17 Yantao Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

In this paper we examine the flow generated by coupled surface and internal small-amplitude water waves in a two-fluid layer model, where we take the upper layer to be rotational (constant vorticity) and the lower layer to be irrotational.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 David Henry , Rossen I. Ivanov , Zisis N. Sakellaris

We consider the gradient flow of a Ginzburg-Landau functional of the type \[ F_\varepsilon^{\mathrm{extr}}(u):=\frac{1}{2}\int_M \left|D u\right|_g^2 + \left|\mathscr{S} u\right|^2_g…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Giacomo Canevari , Antonio Segatti

In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-dependent energy functional. We resort to ideas and techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Riccarda Rossi

We prove that the sequence of marginals obtained from the iterations of the Sinkhorn algorithm or the iterative proportional fitting procedure (IPFP) on joint densities, converges to an absolutely continuous curve on the $2$-Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Nabarun Deb , Young-Heon Kim , Soumik Pal , Geoffrey Schiebinger

Steady incompressible potential flows of an inviscid or viscous fluid are considered in infinite N-dimensional cylinders with tangential boundary conditions. We show that such flows, if away from stagnation, are constant and parallel to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-25 François Hamel , Aram Karakhanyan

Continuum simulation is employed to study ion transport and fluid flow through a nanopore in a solid-state membrane under an applied potential drop. Results show the existence of concentration polarization layers on the surfaces of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mao Mao , Sandip Ghosal , Guohui Hu

In this paper, we study the stochastic Hamiltonian flow in Wasserstein manifold, the probability density space equipped with $L^2$-Wasserstein metric tensor, via the Wong--Zakai approximation. We begin our investigation by showing that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Jianbo Cui , Shu Liu , Haomin Zhou

We are interested in existence of gradient flows for shape functionals especially for first Laplacian eigenvalues. We introduce different techniques to prove existence and use different formulations for gradient flows. We apply a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Yannick Holle

This report is actually the in-class project of MATH489 FA2022, Dynamics and Differential Equations in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The report is mainly about gradient flow of a Morse-type functions (Morse functions, Morse--Bott…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Leyang Zhang

We examine stability properties of primal-dual gradient flow dynamics for composite convex optimization problems with multiple, possibly nonsmooth, terms in the objective function under the generalized consensus constraint. The proposed…

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We consider dynamics driven by interaction energies on graphs. We introduce graph analogues of the continuum nonlocal-interaction equation and interpret them as gradient flows with respect to a graph Wasserstein distance. The particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Antonio Esposito , Francesco S. Patacchini , André Schlichting , Dejan Slepčev

We propose a projected Wasserstein gradient descent method (pWGD) for high-dimensional Bayesian inference problems. The underlying density function of a particle system of WGD is approximated by kernel density estimation (KDE), which faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Yifei Wang , Peng Chen , Wuchen Li

We construct a family of semimartingales that describes the behavior of a particle system with sticky-reflecting interaction. The model is a physical improvement of the Howitt-Warren flow, an infinite system of diffusion particles on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Vitalii Konarovskyi

We study estimation problems in safety-critical applications with streaming data. Since estimation problems can be posed as optimization problems in the probability space, we devise a stochastic projected Wasserstein gradient flow that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Nicolas Lanzetti , Efe C. Balta , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Florian Dörfler

We consider a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids with matched constant densities. This model consists of the Navier-Stokes system coupled with a convective nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Sergio Frigeri , Maurizio Grasselli , Elisabetta Rocca
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