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This paper is devoted to Fokker-Planck and linear kinetic equations with very weak confinement corresponding to a potential with an at most logarithmic growth and no integrable stationary state. Our goal is to understand how to measure the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Emeric Bouin , Jean Dolbeault , Christian Schmeiser

We introduce discontinuous spectral-element methods of arbitrary order that are well balanced, conservative of mass, and conservative or dissipative of total energy (i.e., a mathematical entropy function) for a covariant flux formulation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tristan Montoya , Andrés M. Rueda-Ramírez , Gregor J. Gassner

We investigate the large-time behavior of the solutions of the two-dimensional Keller-Segel system in self-similar variables, when the total mass is subcritical, that is less than 8\pi after a proper adimensionalization. It was known from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Juan Campos Serrano , Jean Dolbeault

This paper is devoted to the adaptation of the method developed in [4,3] to a Fokker-Planck equation for fiber lay-down which has been studied in [1,5]. Exponential convergence towards a unique stationary state is proved in a norm which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Jean Dolbeault , Axel Klar , Clément Mouhot , Christian Schmeiser

We study the numerical approximation of a class of degenerate parabolic stochastic partial differential equations on non-compact metric graphs, which naturally arise in the asymptotic analysis of Hamiltonian flows under small noise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jianbo Cui , Mihály Kovács , Derui Sheng

We show the existence of global-in-time weak solutions to a general class of coupled Hookean-type bead-spring chain models that arise from the kinetic theory of dilute solutions of polymeric liquids with noninteracting polymer chains. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-25 John W. Barrett , Endre Süli

We consider finite-volume approximations of Fokker-Planck equations on bounded convex domains in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and study the corresponding gradient flow structures. We reprove the convergence of the discrete to continuous Fokker-Planck…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

We introduce a novel spatio-temporal discretization for nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations on the multi-dimensional unit cube. This discretization is based on two structural properties of these equations: the first is the representation as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes , Horst Osberger

We are interested in reconstructing the initial condition of a non-linear partial differential equation (PDE), namely the Fokker-Planck equation, from the observation of a Dyson Brownian motion at a given time $t>0$. The Fokker-Planck…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Mylène Maïda , Tien Dat Nguyen , Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc , Vincent Rivoirard , Viet Chi Tran

In this work, we develop novel structure-preserving numerical schemes for a class of nonlinear Fokker--Planck equations with nonlocal interactions. Such equations can cover many cases of importance, such as porous medium equations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Chenghua Duan , Wenbin Chen , Chun Liu , Xingye Yue , Shenggao Zhou

We examine the long-term asymptotic behavior of dissipating solutions to aggregation equations and Patlak-Keller-Segel models with degenerate power-law and linear diffusion. The purpose of this work is to identify when solutions decay to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Jacob Bedrossian

We investigate whether the discrepancy between observed galactic rotation curves and those predicted from baryonic matter can be interpreted as the manifestation of an emergent entropic force. Starting from a minimal statistical framework,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 V. S. Morales-Salgado , H. Martínez-Huerta , P. I. Ramírez-Baca

There has been recent interest in the relaxational modes of small-scale fully connected systems of aligning self-propelled particles (Spera et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 132}: 078301 (2024)). We revisit the classical connection between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Tara Steinhöfel , Horst-Holger Boltz , Thomas Ihle

We propose a novel non-parametric learning paradigm for the identification of drift and diffusion coefficients of multi-dimensional non-linear stochastic differential equations, which relies upon discrete-time observations of the state. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Riccardo Bonalli , Alessandro Rudi

We propose a stable Petrov-Galerkin discretization of a kinetic Fokker-Planck equation constructed in such a way that uniform inf-sup stability can be inferred directly from the variational formulation. Inspired by well-posedness results…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Julia Brunken , Kathrin Smetana

Under a precise nonlinearity-diffusivity condition we establish the decay of space-periodic entropy solutions of a multidimensional degenerate nonlinear parabolic equation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Evgeniy Yu. Panov

This paper presents new analytical results for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems of partial different equations with small cross-diffusion which describe the macroscopic dynamics of a variety of large systems of interacting particles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Luca Alasio , Helene Ranetbauer , Markus Schmidtchen , Marie-Therese Wolfram

In this paper we proceed with investigation of connections between Fokker - Planck equation and continuum mechanics. We base upon expressions from our work [2], based upon the spectral decomposition of Fokker - Planck equation solution. In…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-09-17 Igor A. Tanski

Structure-preserving numerical schemes for a nonlinear parabolic fourth-order equation, modeling the electron transport in quantum semiconductors, with periodic boundary conditions are analyzed. First, a two-step backward differentiation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Mario Bukal , Etienne Emmrich , Ansgar Jüngel

We introduce a new set of generalized Fokker-Planck equations that conserve energy and mass and increase a generalized entropy until a maximum entropy state is reached. The concept of generalized entropies is rigorously justified for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pierre-Henri Chavanis