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Barrier crossing is a widespread phenomenon across natural and engineering systems. While an abundant cross-disciplinary literature on the topic has emerged over the years, the stochastic underpinnings of the process are yet to be linked…

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We derive the hydrodynamic limit of a kinetic equation where the interactions in velocity are modelled by a linear operator (Fokker-Planck or Linear Boltzmann) and the force in the Vlasov term is a stochastic process with high amplitude and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Arnaud Debussche , Julien Vovelle

We consider a two-dimensional diffusion process in a two-layered plane, governed by distinct covariance matrices in the upper and lower half-planes and by two drift vectors pointed away from the $x$-axis. We first analyze the case where the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Sandro Franceschi , Irina Kourkova , Maxence Petit

In this article we study the long time behavior of linear functionals of branching diffusion processesas well as the time reversal of the spinal process by means of spectral properties of the Feynman-Kacsemigroup. We generalize for this non…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Pierre Collet , Sylvie Méléard , Jaime San MARTIN

The Feynman-Kac equations are a type of partial differential equations describing the distribution of functionals of diffusive motion. The probability density function (PDF) of Brownian functionals satisfies the Feynman-Kac formula, being a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen , Eli Barkai

This paper revisits the modeling of multicomponent diffusion within the framework of thermodynamics of irreversible processes. We briefly review the two well-known main approaches, leading to the generalized Fick-Onsager multicomponent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Dieter Bothe , Pierre-Etienne Druet

Several classic problems for particles diffusing outside an arbitrary configuration of non-overlapping partially reactive spherical traps in three dimensions are revisited. For this purpose, we describe the generalized method of separation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Denis S. Grebenkov

Here, we adapt the concept of transformational thermodynamics, whereby the flux of temperature is controlled via anisotropic heterogeneous diffusivity, for the diffusion and transport of mass concentration. The n-dimensional,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Sebastien Guenneau , Tania Puvirajesinghe

Normal and anomalous diffusion are ubiquitous in many complex systems [1] . Here, we define a time and space generalized diffusion equation (GDE), which uses fractional-time derivatives and transformed d-path Laplacian operators on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-02 Fernando Diaz-Diaz , Ernesto Estrada

We present a perturbation theory by extending a prescription due to Feynman for computing the probability density function for the random flight motion. The method can be applied to a wide variety of otherwise difficult circumstances. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tim Hatamian

Darboux transformation of a second-order linear differential operator is a well-known technique with many applications in mathematics and physics. We study Darboux transformation from the point of view of Markov semigroups of diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Alexey Kuznetsov , Minjian Yuan

We consider the fractional Laplace framework and provide models and theorems related to nonlocal diffusion phenomena. Some applications are presented, including: a simple probabilistic interpretation, water waves, crystal dislocations,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Claudia Bucur , Enrico Valdinoci

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are in ubiquitous, very effective use to model diffusion processes. However, there are many applications (e.g., such as in hydrology, animal foraging, biology, and light diffusion just do name…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Shiping Zhou , Yanzhi Zhang , Max Gunzburger

Fractional differential equations (FDEs) are an extension of the theory of fractional calculus. However, due to the difficulty in finding analytical solutions, there have not been extensive applications of FDEs until recent decades. With…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Nirupama Bhattacharya , Gabriel A. Silva

Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as a promising alternative to the autoregressive approach for generating discrete sequences. Sample generation via gradual denoising or demasking processes allows them to capture hierarchical…

This paper reports a mass transfer model of a reactant flowing in a large aspect ratio microfluidic chip made of a channel with electrodes on the side walls. A semi-analytical solution to the two-dimensional Fickian diffusion of a reactant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Stéphane Chevalier

We investigate various analytical and numerical techniques for the coupling of nonlinear hyperbolic systems and, in particular, we introduce here an augmented formulation which allows for the modeling of the dynamics of interfaces between…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Benjamin Boutin , Frédéric Coquel , Philippe G. LeFloch

In this paper, we develop and analyze a stochastic algorithm for solving space-time fractional diffusion models, which are widely used to describe anomalous diffusion dynamics. These models pose substantial numerical challenges due to the…

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In this article we prove the existence of Bernstein processes which we associate in a natural way with a class of linear parabolic initial-and final boundary value problems defined in bounded convex subsets of Euclidean space of arbitrary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Pierre-A. Vuillermot , Jean-C. Zambrini

We study the diffusion equation with an appropriate change of variables. This equation is in general a partial differential equation (PDE). With the self-similar and related Ansat\"atze we transform the PDE of diffusion to an ordinary…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Imre Ferenc Barna , László Mátyás