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This work considers the distribution of inertial particles in turbulence using the point-particle approximation. We demonstrate that the random point process formed by the positions of particles in space is a Poisson point process with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-26 Lukas Schmidt , Itzhak Fouxon , Markus Holzner

We present a new approach to model the gravitational dynamics of large-scale structures. Instead of solving the equations of motion up to a finite perturbative order or building phenomenological models, we follow the evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Patrick Valageas

A granular gas composed of inelastic hard spheres or disks in the homogeneous cooling state is considered. Some of the particles are labeled and their number density exhibits a time-independent linear profile along a given direction. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We consider a two-dimensional model system of Brownian particles in which slow particles are accelerated while fast particles are damped. The motion of the individual particles are described by a Langevin equation with Rayleigh-Helmholtz…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-12 Anoosheh Yazdi , Matthias Sperl

Particle-optimization-based sampling (POS) is a recently developed effective sampling technique that interactively updates a set of particles. A representative algorithm is the Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD). We prove, under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Jianyi Zhang , Ruiyi Zhang , Lawrence Carin , Changyou Chen

In past decades the scientific community has been looking for a reliable first-principles method to predict the electronic structure of solids with high accuracy. Here we present an approach which we call the quasiparticle self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. van Schilfgaarde , T. Kotani , S. Faleev

The transport phenomenon of active particles confined in 3D(three dimensional) corrugated confined channel with Gaussian noises is investigated. Large noise intensity perpendicular to the symmetry axis is good for the diffusion and current…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-01 Bing Wang

We analyze the dynamics of particles in two dimensions with constant speed and a stochastic switching angle dynamics defined by a correlated dichotomous Markov process (telegraph noise) plus Gaussian white noise. We study various cases of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-16 Christian Weber , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Gaussian distribution is commonly used as a good approximation to study the trapped one-component Bose-condensed atoms with relatively small nonlinear effect. It is not adequate in dealing with the one-component system of large nonlinear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. C. Huang , W. C. Wu

The linear Boltzmann equation for elastic and/or inelastic scattering is applied to derive the distribution function of a spatially homogeneous system of charged particles spreading in a host medium of two-level atoms and subjected to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Rossani , A. M. Scarfone

Estimating the probability of collision between spacecraft is crucial for risk management and collision-avoidance strategies. Current methods often rely on Gaussian assumptions and simplifications, which can be inaccurate in highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Théo Verhelst , Giacomo Acciarini , Dario Izzo , Francesco Biscani

A continuum model for a population of self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment is derived from an individual-based model. The methodology consists of introducing a hydrodynamic scaling of the corresponding mean-field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Pierre Degond , Angelika Manhart , Hui Yu

This paper presents a general approach to linear stochastic processes driven by various random noises. Mathematically, such processes are described by linear stochastic differential equations of arbitrary order (the simplest non-trivial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Alon Drory

We present a novel method for estimating the circulations and positions of point vortices using trajectory data of passive particles in the presence of Gaussian noise. The method comprises two algorithms: the first one calculates the vortex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Gil Marques , Marco Martins Afonso , Sílvio Gama

Particle-based Bayesian inference methods by sampling from a partition-free target (posterior) distribution, e.g., Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), have attracted significant attention. We propose a path-guided particle-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Mingzhou Fan , Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Xiaoning Qian

A system of interacting Brownian particles subject to short-range repulsive potentials is considered. A continuum description in the form of a nonlinear diffusion equation is derived systematically in the dilute limit using the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-12 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman , Martin Robinson

In this work we review the application of the theory of Gaussian processes to the modeling of noise in pulsar-timing data analysis, and we derive various useful and optimized representations for the likelihood expressions that are needed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Rutger van Haasteren , Michele Vallisneri

We propose a general coarse-graining method to derive a continuity equation that describes any dissipative system of repulsive particles interacting through short-ranged potentials. In our approach, the effect of particle-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-15 C. M. Vieira , H. A. Carmona , J. S. Andrade , A. A. Moreira

Given a discrete stochastic process, for example a chemical reaction system or a birth and death process, we often want to find a continuous stochastic approximation so that the techniques of stochastic differential equations may be brought…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-29 Edward W. J. Wallace

This chapter presents specific aspects of Gaussian process modeling in the presence of complex noise. Starting from the standard homoscedastic model, various generalizations from the literature are presented: input varying noise variance,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Mickael Binois , Arindam Fadikar , Abby Stevens