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In this paper we proceed with investigation of connections between Fokker - Planck equation and continuum mechanics. We base upon expressions from our work [2], based upon the spectral decomposition of Fokker - Planck equation solution. In…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-09-17 Igor A. Tanski

A Fokker-Planck type equation for interacting particles with exclusion principle is analysed. The nonlinear drift gives rise to mathematical difficulties in controlling moments of the distribution function. Assuming enough initial moments…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-01-21 José A. Carrillo , Philippe Laurençot , Jesús Rosado

We propose a new evolutionary dynamics for population games with a discrete strategy set, inspired by the theory of optimal transport and Mean field games. The dynamics can be described as a Fokker-Planck equation on a discrete strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Shui-Nee Chow , Wuchen Li , Jun Lu , Haomin Zhou

We study a weakly non-linear Fokker-Planck equation with BGK heat thermostats in a spatially bounded domain with conservative Maxwell boundary conditions, presenting a space-dependent accommodation coefficient and a space-dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 J Evans , R Medina

We develop a new method to solve the Fokker-Planck or Kolmogorov's forward equation that governs the time evolution of the joint probability density function of a continuous-time stochastic nonlinear system. Numerical solution of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

We study the long-time behaviour of a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, which models the evolution of rigid polymers in a given flow, after a closure approximation. The aim of this work is twofold: first, we propose a microscopic derivation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-20 Lingbing He , Claude Le Bris , Tony Lelièvre

This paper investigates the gradient flow structure, well-posedness, and asymptotic behavior of the Fokker-Planck equation defined on locally uniformly finite graphs, which is highly non-trivial compared with the finite case. We first…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Cong Wang

We derive non-linear stochastic Fokker-Planck equation from stochastic systems particles with individual and environmental noise via relative entropy method, with pathwise quantitative bounds. Moreover, we prove the existence of a unique…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Christian Olivera , Alexandre B. de Souza

A class of linear kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with a non-trivial diffusion matrix and with periodic boundary conditions in the spatial variable is considered. After formulating the problem in a geometric setting, the question of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 Simone Calogero

We examine the validity of the Fokker-Planck equation with linear force coefficients as an approximation to the kinetic equation of nucleation in homogeneous isothermal multicomponent condensation. Starting with a discrete equation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuri S. Djikaev , Eli Ruckenstein , Mark Swihart

Fokker-Planck equations (forward Kolmogorov equations) evolve probability densities in time from an initial condition. For distributions over the real line, these evolution equations can sometimes be transformed into dynamics over the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-26 David W. Cohen , Merek Johnson , Bruce M. Boghosian

This paper is devoted to $\phi$-entropies applied to Fokker-Planck and kinetic Fokker-Planck equations in the whole space, with confinement. The so-called $\phi$-entropies are Lyapunov functionals which typically interpolate between Gibbs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Jean Dolbeault , Xingyu Li

This paper concerns a Fokker-Planck equation on the positive real line modeling nucleation and growth of clusters. The main feature of the equation is the dependence of the driving vector field and boundary condition on a non-local order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Joseph G. Conlon , André Schlichting

In this paper, we study the long-time behaviour of solutions to the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation where the confining potential is non-convex. This is a nonlocal nonlinear partial differential equation describing the time evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Manh Hong Duong , Julian Tugaut

We investigate the existence of steady states and exponential decay for hypocoercive Fokker--Planck equations on the whole space with drift terms that are linear in the position variable. For this class of equations, we first establish that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Anton Arnold , Jan Erb

The Fokker-Planck equation provides complete statistical description of a particle undergoing random motion in a solvent. In the presence of Lorentz force due to an external magnetic field, the Fokker-Planck equation picks up a tensorial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 Iman Abdoli , Hidde Derk Vuijk , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Joseph Michael Brader , Abhinav Sharma

We study the main properties of the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation characterized by a variable diffusion coefficient and a polynomial superlinear drift, modeling the formation of consensus in a large interacting system of individuals.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

We show how the quantum analog of the Fokker-Planck equation for describing Brownian motion can be obtained as the diffusive limit of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation. The latter describes the quantum dynamics of a tracer particle in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger

A Fokker-Planck equation approach for the treatment of non-Markovian stochastic processes is proposed. The approach is based on the introduction of fictitious trajectories sharing with the real ones their local structure and initial…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piero Olla , Luca Pignagnoli

We show that solutions of nonlinear nonlocal Fokker--Planck equations in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions can be approximated by Cauchy problems with increasingly strong confining potentials defined in the whole space. Two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Luca Alasio , Maria Bruna , José Antonio Carrillo