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The large-time asymptotics of weak solutions to Maxwell--Stefan diffusion systems for chemically reacting fluids with different molar masses and reversible reactions are investigated. The diffusion matrix of the system is generally neither…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Esther S. Daus , Ansgar Jüngel , Bao Quoc Tang

Given a first-order nonlinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy-entropy flux pair, we can consider the class of weak solutions containing shock waves depending upon some small scale parameters. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Philippe G. LeFloch , Allen M. Tesdall

While semiconductor electronics is at heart of modern world, and now uses 5nm or smaller processes of single atoms, it seems there are missing models of actual electron currents in these scales - which could help with more conscious design…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-24 Jarek Duda

The aim of this work is to analyze the entropy, entropy flux and entropy supply rate of granular fluids within the frameworks of the Boltzmann equation and continuum thermodynamics. It is shown that the entropy inequality for a granular gas…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-17 Gilberto M. Kremer

Bounded weak solutions are constructed for a degenerate parabolic system with a full diffusion matrix, which is a generalized version of the thin film Muskat system. Boundedness is achieved with the help of a sequence $(\mathcal{E}_n)_{n\ge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Philippe Laurençot , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant promise in various generative tasks; however, they often struggle to satisfy challenging constraints. Our approach addresses this limitation by rethinking training-free loss-guided diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 William Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Tom Van Wouwe , C. Karen Liu

A Maxwell-Stefan system for fluid mixtures with driving forces depending on Cahn-Hilliard-type chemical potentials is analyzed. The corresponding parabolic cross-diffusion equations contain fourth-order derivatives and are considered in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Xiaokai Huo , Ansgar Jüngel , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

A modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck system in a bounded domain with mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions is analyzed. It describes the concentrations of ions immersed in a polar solvent and the correlated electric potential due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Ansgar Jüngel , Annamaria Massimini

We propose and study a one-dimensional model which consists of two cross-diffusion systems coupled via a moving interface. The motivation stems from the modelling of complex diffusion processes in the context of the vapor deposition of thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Clément Cancès , Jean Cauvin-Vila , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Virginie Ehrlacher

The aim of this article is to study a Cahn-Hilliard model for a multicomponent mixture with cross-diffusion effects, degenerate mobility and where only one of the species does separate from the others. We define a notion of weak solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Virginie Ehrlacher , Greta Marino , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann

Localisation limits and nonlocal approximations of degenerate parabolic systems have experienced a renaissance in recent years. However, only few results cover anisotropic systems. This work addresses this gap by establishing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Tomasz Dębiec , Markus Schmidtchen

A variation principle for mass transport in solids is derived that recasts transport coefficients as minima of local thermodynamic average quantities. The result is independent of diffusion mechanism, and applies to amorphous and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Dallas R. Trinkle

A new approach to the modeling of nonfree particle diffusion is presented. The approach uses a general setup based on geometric graphs (networks of curves), which means that particle diffusion in anything from arrays of barriers and pore…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-05 Niels Buhl

This work presents a comprehensive framework for enhanced diffusion modeling in fluid-structure interactions by combining the Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) with stochastic trajectories and high-order spectral boundary conditions. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

The zero-temperature limit of the backgammon model under resetting is studied. The model is a balls-in-boxes model whose relaxation dynamics is governed by the density of boxes containing just one particle. As these boxes become rare at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-21 Pascal Grange

Exploration is critical for solving real-world decision-making problems such as scientific discovery, where the objective is to generate truly novel designs rather than mimic existing data distributions. In this work, we address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Riccardo De Santi , Marin Vlastelica , Ya-Ping Hsieh , Zebang Shen , Niao He , Andreas Krause

We deal with a generalized statistical description of nonequilibrium complex systems based on least biased distributions given some prior information. A maximum entropy principle is introduced that allows for the determination of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erik Van der Straeten , Christian Beck

Nonlinear diffusion $\partial_t \rho = \Delta(\Phi(\rho))$ is considered for a class of nonlinearities $\Phi$. It is shown that for suitable choices of $\Phi$, an associated Lyapunov functional can be interpreted as thermodynamics entropy.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Nicolas Dirr , Marios Stamatakis , Johannes Zimmer

A new method is proposed to numerically extract the diffusivity of a (typically nonlinear) diffusion equation from underlying stochastic particle systems. The proposed strategy requires the system to be in local equilibrium and have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-09 Peter Embacher , Nicolas Dirr , Johannes Zimmer , Celia Reina

We expand on a previous study of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of a reaction rate gradient in the direction of the front motion. We study the system via reaction-diffusion equations, using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine