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The Poisson-Nernst-Planck system of equations used to model ionic transport is interpreted as a gradient flow for the Wasserstein distance and a free energy in the space of probability measures with finite second moment. A variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 David Kinderlehrer , Léonard Monsaingeon , Xiang Xu

We study a dissipative system of nonlinear and nonlocal equations modeling the flow of electrohydrodynamics. The existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions is proven for general $\mathbf{L}^2$ initial data in two space dimensions and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Rolf J. Ryham

We study the existence and the rate of equilibration of weak solutions to a two-component system of non-linear diffusion-aggregation equations, with small cross diffusion effects. The aggregation term is assumed to be purely attractive, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Daniel Matthes , Christian Parsch

We propose a finite volume scheme for convection-diffusion equations with nonlinear diffusion. Such equations arise in numerous physical contexts. We will particularly focus on the drift-diffusion system for semiconductors and the porous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-10 Marianne Bessemoulin-Chatard

We propose a fully discrete variational scheme for nonlinear evolution equations with gradient flow structure on the space of finite Radon measures on an interval with respect to a generalized version of the Wasserstein distance with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jonathan Zinsl , Daniel Matthes

In this paper we address the regularity issues of drift-diffusion equation with nonlocal diffusion, where the diffusion operator is in the realm of stable-type L\'evy operator and the velocity field is defined from the considered quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Changxing Miao , Liutang Xue

This paper considers a class of nonlinear, degenerate drift- diffusion equations. We study well-posedness and regularity properties of the solutions, with the goal to achieve uniform H\"{o}lder regularity in terms of $L^p$-bound on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Inwon Kim , Yuming Zhang

We study a class of reflected McKean-Vlasov diffusions over a convex domain with self-stabilizing coefficients. This includes coefficients that do not satisfy the classical Wasserstein Lipschitz condition. Further, the process is…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Daniel Adams , Gonçalo dos Reis , Romain Ravaille , William Salkeld , Julian Tugaut

Motivated by a probabilistic approach to Kahler-Einstein metrics we consider a general non-equilibrium statistical mechanics model in Euclidean space consisting of the stochastic gradient flow of a given (possibly singular) quasi-convex…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Robert J. Berman , Magnus Onnheim

We consider the identification of nonlinear diffusion coefficients of the form $a(t,u)$ or $a(u)$ in quasi-linear parabolic and elliptic equations. Uniqueness for this inverse problem is established under very general assumptions using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Herbert Egger , Jan-Frederik Pietschmann , Matthias Schlottbom

We describe conditions on non-gradient drift diffusion Fokker-Planck equations for its solutions to converge to equilibrium with a uniform exponential rate in Wasserstein distance. This asymptotic behaviour is related to a functional…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-19 François Bolley , Ivan Gentil , Arnaud Guillin

We investigate a variational approach to nonpotential perturbations of gradient flows of nonconvex energies in Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions to elliptic-in-time regularizations of gradient flows by combining the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Stefano Melchionna

We prove the equivalence between the notion of Wasserstein gradient flow for a one-dimensional nonlocal transport PDE with attractive/repulsive Newtonian potential on one side, and the notion of entropy solution of a Burgers-type scalar…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Giovanni A. Bonaschi , José A. Carrillo , Marco Di Francesco , Mark A. Peletier

We prove Holder regularity for solutions of non divergence integro-differential equations with non necessarily even kernels. The even/odd decomposition of the kernel can be understood as a sum of a diffusion and a drift term. In our case we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Hector A. Chang Lara

We prove continuity for bounded weak solutions of a nonlinear nonlocal parabolic type equation associated to a Dirichlet form with a rough kernel. The equation is allowed to be singular at the level zero, and solutions may change sign. If…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Arturo de Pablo , Fernando Quirós , Ana Rodríguez

We address several concerns related to the derivation of drift-ordered fluid equations. Starting from a fully Galilean invariant fluid system, we show how consistent sets of perturbative drift-fluid equations in the case of a isothermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Jakob Gath , Matthias Wiesenberger

The classical result by It\^o on the existence of strong solutions of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with Lipschitz coefficients can be extended to the case where the drift is only measurable and bounded. These generalizations are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Gunther Leobacher , Michaela Szölgyenyi , Stefan Thonhauser

This paper contains two contributions in the study of optimal transport on metric graphs. Firstly, we prove a Benamou-Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance, which establishes the equivalence of static and dynamical optimal transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Matthias Erbar , Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Delio Mugnolo

We consider a class of Fokker--Planck equations with linear diffusion and superlinear drift enjoying a formal Wasserstein-like gradient flow structure with convex mobility function. In the drift-dominant regime, the equations have a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 José A. Carrillo , Katharina Hopf , José L. Rodrigo

A system of degenerate drift-diffusion equations for the electron, hole, and oxygen vacancy densities, coupled to the Poisson equation for the electric potential, is analyzed in a three-dimensional bounded domain with mixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Ansgar Jüngel , Martin Vetter