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In this work we consider an extension of a recently proposed structure preserving numerical scheme for nonlinear Fokker-Planck-type equations to the case of nonconstant full diffusion matrices. While in existing works the schemes are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 N. Loy , M. Zanella

We study the Fokker-Planck equation derived in the large system limit of the Markovian process describing the dynamics of quantitative traits. The Fokker-Planck equation is posed on a bounded domain and its transport and diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Katarina Bodova , Jan Haskovec , Peter Markowich

This paper concerns the proof of the exponential rate of convergence of the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation, with a drift term not being the gradient of a potential function and endowed by Robin type boundary conditions. This kind of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-24 J-A Carrillo , Simona Mancini , M. -B Tran

In this work we consider entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin methods applied to nonconservative hyperbolic systems. We introduce a new class of entropy conservative fluctuations that allow us to construct entropy conservative schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Patrick Ersing , Andrew R. Winters

In the present effort we consider the most general non linear particle kinetics within the framework of the Fokker-Planck picture. We show that the kinetics imposes the form of the generalized entropy and subsequently we demonstrate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Kaniadakis

We study hypocoercivity for a class of linearized BGK models for continuous phase spaces. We develop methods for constructing entropy functionals that enable us to prove exponential relaxation to equilibrium with explicit and physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Franz Achleitner , Anton Arnold , Eric A. Carlen

We study a coupled Fokker-Planck--Navier-Stokes (FPNS) system modeling the dynamics of interacting particles suspended in a viscous incompressible fluid, where the coupling occurs through a locally averaged Brinkman drag force. Our main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Roman Shvydkoy , Trevor Teolis

In this paper, we study the hypocoercivity for a class of linear kinetic equations with both transport and degenerately dissipative terms. As concrete examples, the relaxation operator, Fokker-Planck operator and linearized Boltzmann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-10 Renjun Duan

In this note, we consider a kinetic Fokker-Planck-Alignment equation with Rayleigh-type friction and self-propulsion force which is derived from general environmental averaging models. We show the exponential relaxation in time toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Vinh Nguyen

The goal of this work is to find the sharp rate of convergence to equilibrium under the quadratic Fisher information functional for solutions to Fokker-Planck equations governed by a constant drift term and a constant, yet possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Anton Arnold , Amit Einav , Tobias Wöhrer

We consider a class of time dependent second order partial differential equations governed by a decaying entropy. The solution usually corresponds to a density distribution, hence positivity (non-negativity) is expected. This class of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Zheng Sun , José A. Carrillo , Chi-Wang Shu

In this paper, the entropy conservative/stable algorithms presented by Del Rey Fernandez and coauthors [18,16,17] for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations on nonconforming p-refined/coarsened curvilinear grids is extended to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-08 David C. Del Rey Fernandez , Mark H. Carpenter , Lisandro Dalcin , Stefano Zampini , Matteo Parsani

We demonstrate that the shallow water moment equations satisfy an auxiliary entropy conservation law, where the entropy function corresponds to the total energy. Additionally, we show that the classical Newtonian slip friction and Manning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Julio Careaga , Patrick Ersing , Julian Koellermeier , Andrew R. Winters

In this paper we prove new constructive coercivity estimates and convergence to equilibrium for a spatially non-homogeneous system of Landau equations with soft potentials. We show that the nonlinear collision operator conserves each…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Maria Gualdani , Nicola Zamponi

Systems out of equilibrium exhibit a net production of entropy. We study the dynamics of a stochastic system represented by a Master Equation that can be modeled by a Fokker-Planck equation in a coarse-grained, mesoscopic description. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-05 Daniel M. Busiello , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

The systematic expansion method of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation is developed by generalizing the formulation proposed in [J. Phys. A50, 325001 (2017)]. Using this method, we obtain a new formula to calculate the mean work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-05 T. Koide

In this paper we prove global existence of weak solutions, their regularization, and relaxation for large data for a broad class of Fokker-Planck-Alignment models which appear in collective dynamics. The main feature of these results, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 R. Shvydkoy

We study nonlinear stability of pulled fronts in scalar parabolic equations on the real line of arbitrary order, under conceptual assumptions on existence and spectral stability of fronts. In this general setting, we establish sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-07 Montie Avery , Arnd Scheel

This paper explores the exponential stability of two nonlinear wave equations coupled through their velocities. The analysis is divided into two main cases. First, we consider a system where one equation is damped, while the other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Alhabib Moumni , Cristina Pignotti , Jawad Salhi , Mouhcine Tilioua

In this article, we prove some convergence results for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with strong space confinement but fat-tailed local equilibria and non-explicit global steady states. We extend the results of \cite{C21} to a wider class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Emeric Bouin , Luca Ziviani