English
Related papers

Related papers: Coagulation and diffusion: a probabilistic perspec…

200 papers

We consider systems of damped wave equations with a state-dependent damping coefficient and perturbed by a Gaussian multiplicative noise. Initially, we investigate their well-posedness, under quite general conditions on the friction.…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Sandra Cerrai , Arnaud Debussche

We investigate the statistical properties of an over-damped Brownian particle that is trapped by a harmonic potential and simultaneously exposed to a linear shear flow or to a plane Poiseuille flow. Its probability distribution is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-08 Jochen Bammert , Walter Zimmermann

We consider a microscopic model of $n$ identical axis-symmetric rigid Brownian particles suspended in a Stokes flow. We rigorously derive in the homogenization limit of many small particles a classical formula for the viscoelastic stress…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Richard M. Höfer , Marta Leocata , Amina Mecherbet

We consider a one-dimensional sandpile model which mimics an elastic string of particles driven through a strongly pinning periodic environment with phase disorder. The evolution towards depinning occurs by the triggering of avalanches in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-30 Melih İşeri , David C. Kaspar , Muhittin Mungan

We develop a quantum Smoluchowski equation in terms of a true probability distribution function to describe quantum Brownian motion in configuration space in large friction limit at arbitrary temperature and derive the rate of barrier…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Dhruba Banerjee , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Suman Kumar Banik , Deb Shankar Ray

We study 1-D diffusion of $N$ hard-core interacting Brownian particles driven by the space- and time-dependent external force. We give the exact solution of the $N$-particle Smoluchowski diffusion equation. In particular, we investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-06 Artem Ryabov , Petr Chvosta

A system of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena, which has arbitrary friction depending on both state and distribution is investigated. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is seen to describe dynamics in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Xueru Liu , Qianqian Jiang , Wei Wang

Our object is to formulate and analyze a physically plausible and mathematically sound model to better understand the phenomenon of clumping in colloid dispersions. Our model is stochastic but rigorously derived from a deterministic setup…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Peter. Kotelenez , Marshall J. Leitman , J. Adin Mann

The strong friction regime at low temperatures is analyzed systematically starting from the formally exact path integral expression for the reduced dynamics. This quantum Smoluchowski regime allows for a type of semiclassical treatment in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-03 Stefan A. Maier , Joachim Ankerhold

In these lecture notes, we explore the mathematical preliminaries and foundational concepts that connect stochastic processes with partial differential equations. We begin by investigating Brownian motion, which serves as a model for random…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Helder Rojas

Spatial reaction-diffusion models have been employed to describe many emergent phenomena in biological systems. The modelling technique most commonly adopted in the literature implements systems of partial differential equations (PDEs),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-05 Christian A. Yates , Mark B. Flegg

The Smoluchowski coagulation equation (SCE) is a population balance model that describes the time evolution of cluster size distributions resulting from particle aggregation. Although it is formally a mass-conserving system, solutions may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Masato Kimura , Hisanori Miyata

We analyze the dynamics of concentrated polymer solutions modeled by a 2D Smoluchowski equation. We describe the long time behavior of the polymer suspensions in a fluid. When the flow influence is neglected the equation has a gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Xingyu Li , Arghir Zarnescu

Porosity evolution of dust aggregates is crucial in understanding dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. In this study, we present useful tools to study the coagulation and porosity evolution of dust aggregates. First, we present a new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Satoshi Okuzumi , Hidekazu Tanaka , Masa-aki Sakagami

We study a class of systems of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is used to describe their dynamics in the small mass limit. Our systems have arbitrary state-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Scott Hottovy , Austin McDaniel , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

We consider coagulation equations of Smoluchowski or Flory type where the total merge rate has a bilinear form $\pi(y)\cdot A\pi(x)$ for a vector of conserved quantities $\pi$, generalising the multiplicative kernel. For these kernels, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Daniel Heydecker , Robert I. A. Patterson

We develop a formally exact technique for obtaining steady-state distributions of non-interacting active Brownian particles in a variety of systems. Our technique draws on results from the theory of two-way diffusion equations to solve the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-06 Caleb G. Wagner , Michael F. Hagan , Aparna Baskaran

We consider two different models for colloidal particles. In the first model, we consider their free motion to be diffusion while in the second model we take it to be integrated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. In both models, we derived…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Guolong Li

In the present study, the information entropy for smoluchowski coagulation equation is proposed based on the statistical physics. and the normalized particle size distribution is a log-normal function at equilibrium from the principle of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-22 Mingliang Xie

We present a rigorous thermodynamic treatment of irreversible binary aggregation. We construct the Smoluchowski ensemble as the set of discrete finite distributions generated from the same initial state of all monomers upon fixed number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-16 Themis Matsoukas