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In this paper, we study Brinkman's equations with microscale properties that are highly heterogeneous in space and time. The time variations are controlled by a stochastic particle dynamics described by an SDE. The particle dynamics can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Hakima Bessaih , Yalchin Efendiev , Florian Maris

Two recent articles \cite{ashtekar2015general, moncrief2019could} suggested an interesting dynamical mechanism within the framework of the vacuum Einstein flow (or Einstein-$\Lambda$ flow if a positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$ is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Vincent Moncrief , Puskar Mondal

In this work we extend a recent kinetic traffic model to the case of more than one class of vehicles, each of which is characterized by few different microscopic features. We consider a Boltzmann-like framework with only binary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice , Andrea Tosin , Giuseppe Visconti

Lattice-Boltzmann methods are established mesoscopic numerical schemes for fluid flow, that recover the evolution of macroscopic quantities (viz., velocity and pressure fields) evolving under macroscopic target equations. The approximated…

We study the asymptotic convergence of solutions as $t\rightarrow\infty$ of $\partial_t u=-f(u)+\int f(u)$, a nonlocal differential equation that is formally a gradient flow in a constant-mass subspace of $L^2$ arising from simplified…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Sangmin Park , Robert L. Pego

We consider a linear Boltzmann equation that arises in a model for quantum friction. It describes a particle that is slowed down by the emission of bosons. We study the stochastic process generated by this Boltzmann equation and we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Roland Bauerschmidt , Wojciech de Roeck , Jürg Fröhlich

As a simplified model for subsurface flows elliptic equations may be utilized. Insufficient measurements or uncertainty in those are commonly modeled by a random coefficient, which then accounts for the uncertain permeability of a given…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Andrea Barth , Andreas Stein

A phenomenological model for the dissipation of scalar fluctuations due to the straining by the fluid motion is proposed in this letter. An explicit equation is obtained for the time evolution of the probability distribution function of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antoine Venaille , Joel Sommeria

We develop a quantitative theory of stochastic homogenization for linear, uniformly parabolic equations with coefficients depending on space and time. Inspired by recent works in the elliptic setting, our analysis is focused on certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Scott Armstrong , Alexandre Bordas , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

It is well known that nonlinear diffusion equations can be interpreted as a gradient flow in the space of probability measures equipped with the Euclidean Wasserstein distance. Under suitable convexity conditions on the nonlinearity, due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-13 François Bolley , José A. Carrillo

Motivated by recent developments in the fields of large deviations for interacting particle system and mean field control, we establish a comparison principle for the Hamilton--Jacobi equation corresponding to linearly controlled gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Giovanni Conforti , Richard Kraaij , Daniela Tonon

We develop a technique of multiple scale asymptotic expansions along mean flows and a corresponding notion of weak multiple scale convergence. These are applied to homogenize convection dominated parabolic equations with rapidly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Thomas Holding , Harsha Hutridurga , Jeffrey Rauch

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

We introduce a one-dimensional stochastic system where particles perform independent diffusions and interact through pairwise coagulation events, which occur at a nontrivial rate upon collision. Under appropriate conditions on the diffusion…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-30 Inés Armendáriz

We introduce a numerical solver for the spatially inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation using the Burnett spectral method. The modelling and discretization of the collision operator are based on the previous work [Z. Cai, Y. Fan, and Y. Wang,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Zhicheng Hu , Zhenning Cai

In this paper, we introduce a geometric flow for Lagrangian submanifolds in a K\"ahler manifold that stays in its initial Hamiltonian isotopy class and is a gradient flow for volume. The stationary solutions are the Hamiltonian stationary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jingyi Chen , Micah Warren

The classification of equilibria for the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for Fermi-Dirac particles is proved for any $n$-dimensional velocity space with $n\ge 2$. The same classification has been proven in \cite{Lu2001} for $n=3$.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Xuguang Lu

A multicomponent extension of our recent theory of simple fluids [ U.M.B. Marconi and S. Melchionna, Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 014105 (2009) ] is proposed to describe miscible and immiscible liquid mixtures under inhomogeneous, non…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-11 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

A new lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is introduced, based on a regularization of the pre-collision distribution functions in terms of the local density, velocity, and momentum flux tensor. The model dramatically improves the precision and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonas Latt , Bastien Chopard

We develop and implement a novel lattice Boltzmann scheme to study multicomponent flows on curved surfaces, coupling the continuity and Navier-Stokes equations with the Cahn-Hilliard equation to track the evolution of the binary fluid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Victor E. Ambruş , Sergiu Busuioc , Alexander J. Wagner , Fabien Paillusson , Halim Kusumaatmaja