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This study investigates the asymptotic dynamics of solutions to the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equation, with a specific focus on ship roll stability in dynamic sea conditions. Utilizing a fourth-order filter, we conduct a thorough…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Abdelkader Tizaoui

We study the rotational dynamics of a flexible polymer initially wrapped around a rigid rod and unwinding from it. This dynamics is of interest in several problems in biology and constitutes a fundamental instance of polymer relaxation from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-29 Jean-Charles Walter , Marco Baiesi , Enrico Carlon , Helmut Schiessel

Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the translocation of a polymer into and out of a ellipsoidal cavity through a narrow pore. We measure the polymer free energy F as a function of a translocation coordinate, s, defined to be the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 James M. Polson

Exact relaxation times and eigenfunctions for a simple mechanical model of polymer dynamics are obtained using supersymmetry methods of quantum mechanics. The model includes the finite extensibility of the molecule and does not make use of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Ilg , I. V. Karlin , S. Succi

The Fokker-Planck (FP) equation governs the evolution of densities for stochastic dynamics of physical systems, such as the Langevin dynamics and the Lorenz system. This work simulates FP equations through a mean field control (MFC)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Mo Zhou , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

Using the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics, we derive a four-component Wigner equation for a system composed of spin-1/2 fermions (typically, electrons) including the Zeeman effect and the spin-orbit coupling. This Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jerome Hurst , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Giovanni Manfredi

Polymer solutions are frequently used in enhanced oil recovery and groundwater remediation to improve the recovery of trapped non-aqueous fluids. However, applications are limited by an incomplete understanding of the flow in porous media.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-09 Christopher A. Browne , Audrey Shih , Sujit S. Datta

We consider the active Brownian particle (ABP) model for a two-dimensional microswimmer with fixed speed, whose direction of swimming changes according to a Brownian process. The probability density for the swimmer evolves according to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-01 Hongfei Chen , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

In this study, we investigate the transition between the Newtonian and the viscoelastic regimes during the pinch-off of droplets of dilute polymer solutions and discuss its link to the coil-stretch transition. The detachment of a drop from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Sreeram Rajesh , Virgile Thiévenaz , Alban Sauret

Polymer stretching in random smooth flows is investigated within the framework of the FENE dumbbell model. The advecting flow is Gaussian and short-correlated in time. The stationary probability density function of polymer extension is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Martins Afonso , D. Vincenzi

We propose a new semi-discretization scheme to approximate nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, by exploiting the gradient flow structures with respect to the 2-Wasserstein metric. We discretize the underlying state by a finite graph and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Shui-Nee Chow , Luca Dieci , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

We present a hybrid computational method for simulating the dynamics of macromolecules in solution which couples a mesoscale solver for the fluctuating hydrodynamics (FH) equations with molecular dynamics to describe the macromolecule. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giupponi , G. De Fabritiis , P. V. Coveney

We address the numerical challenge of solving the Hookean-type time-fractional Navier--Stokes--Fokker--Planck equation, a history-dependent system of PDEs defined on the Cartesian product of two $d$-dimensional spaces in the turbulent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Jonas Beddrich , Stephan B. Lunowa , Barbara Wohlmuth

Dynamic Flows were introduced by Ford and Fulkerson in 1958 to model flows over time. They define edge capacities to be the total amount of flow that can enter an edge {\em in one time unit}. Each edge also has a length, representing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Mordecai J. Golin , Hadi Khodabande , Bo Qin

Considerable progress has recently been made with geometrical approaches to understanding and controlling small out-of-equilibrium systems, but a mathematically rigorous foundation for these methods has been lacking. Towards this end, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-06 Neha S. Wadia , Ryan V. Zarcone , Michael R. DeWeese

We revise the classical problem of characterizing first exit times of a harmonically trapped particle whose motion is described by one- or multi-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We start by recalling the main derivation steps of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 D. S. Grebenkov

We study several constrained variational problem in the 2-Wasserstein metric for which the set of probability densities satisfying the constraint is not closed. For example, given a probability density $F_0$ on $\R^d$ and a time-step $h>0$,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. A. Carlen , W. Gangbo

In this paper, we study the problem of shock reflection by a wedge, with the potential flow equation, which is a simplification of the Euler System. In the work of M. Feldman and G. Chen, the existence theory of shock reflection problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Jingchen Hu

In this paper we identify the Fokker-Planck equation for (reflected) Sticky Brownian Motion as a Wasserstein gradient flow in the space of probability measures. The driving functional is the relative entropy with respect to a non-standard…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Jean-Baptiste Casteras , Léonard Monsaingeon , Filippo Santambrogio

Motivated by a recent paper by Barrett and S\"uli [J.W. Barrett & E. S\"uli: Existence of global weak solutions to compressible isentropic finitely extensible bead-spring chain models for dilute polymers, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 26…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Eduard Feireisl , Yong Lu , Endre Süli