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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

A Langevin equation is proposed to describe the transport of overdamped Brownian particles in a periodic rough potential and driven by an unbiased periodic force. The equation can be transformed into the Fokker-Planck equation by using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-05 Peng Wang , Yang Zhang , Peng-Juan Zhang , Jie Huo , Xu-Ming Wang

Based on a general discrete model for a semiflexible polymer chain, we introduce a formal derivation of a kinetic equation for semiflexible polymers in the half-plane via a continuum limit. It turns out that the resulting equation is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jin Woo Jang , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We reformulate the neutral wealth tax framework of Froeseth (2026; arXiv:2603.05264) in the language of stochastic dynamics and statistical physics. Individual wealth under geometric Brownian motion satisfies a Langevin equation with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-17 Anders G Frøseth

We establish the global existence of weak solutions to a nonlinear kinetic Fokker--Planck equation with degenerate diffusion, under either inflow or partial absorption-reflection boundary conditions. The novelty of our approach lies in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Young-Pil Choi , Sihyun Song

The hysteretic behavior of many-particle systems with non-convex free energy can be modeled by nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations that involve two small parameters and are driven by a time- dependent constraint. In this paper we consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Michael Herrmann , Barbara Niethammer , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We describe the structure of solutions of the kinetic Fokker-Planck equations in domains with boundaries near the singular set in one-space dimension. We study in particular the behaviour of the solutions of this equation for inelastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Hyung Ju Hwang , Juhi Jang , Juan J. L. Velázquez

We investigate the consistency and convergence of flux-corrected finite element approximations in the context of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws. In particular, we focus on a monolithic convex limiting approach and prove a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Dmitri Kuzmin , Mária Lukácova-Medvid'ová , Philipp Öffner

General self-consistent expressions for the coefficients of diffusion and dynamical friction in a stable, bound, multicomponent self-gravitating and inhomogeneous system are derived. They account for the detailed dynamics of the colliding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-20 Jean Heyvaerts , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Christophe Pichon

Kinetic equilibration at late times is physically required for heavy particles in a finite temperature medium. In Fokker-Planck dynamics, it is ensured by the Einstein relation between the drag and longitudinal momentum diffusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-18 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Urs Achim Wiedemann

The Macroscopic Fluctuating Theory is presented from a practical and self consistent point of view. We take as starting point the assumption that a system at a mesoscopic scale is described by a field $\phi(x,t)$ that evolves by a Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-23 Pedro L. Garrido

Particle-based stochastic approximations of the Boltzmann equation are popular tools for simulations of non-equilibrium gas flows, for which the Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations fail to provide accurate description. However, these numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Veronica Montanaro , Lukas Netterdon , Manuel Torrilhon , Hossein Gorji

Using the parametrically driven harmonic oscillator as a working example, we study two different Markovian approaches to the quantum dynamics of a periodically driven system with dissipation. In the simpler approach, the driving enters the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sigmund Kohler , Thomas Dittrich , Peter Hänggi

We consider a damped linear hyperbolic system modelling the propagation of pressure waves in a network of pipes. Well-posedness is established via semi-group theory and the existence of a unique steady state is proven in the absence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Herbert Egger , Thomas Kugler

We study the numerical approximation of advection-diffusion equations with highly oscillatory coefficients and possibly dominant advection terms by means of the Multiscale Finite Element Method. The latter method is a now classical, finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Rutger A. Biezemans , Claude Le Bris , Frédéric Legoll , Alexei Lozinski

We review some properties of the stationary states of the Fokker - Planck equation for N interacting particles within a mean field approximation, which yields a non-linear integrodifferential equation for the particle density. Analytical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Martzel , C. Aslangul

We consider the Fokker-Planck equation on metric graphs. Vertex boundary conditions are imposed in the form of weight continuity and the probability current conservation. Exact solution of the is obtained for star, tree and loop graphs.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-15 Jasur Matrasulov , Karimjon Sabirov

The dynamics and the steady states of a point-like tracer particle immersed in a confined critical fluid are studied. The fluid is modeled field-theoretically in terms of an order parameter (concentration or density field) obeying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-03 Markus Gross

We present a model of diffusion in heterogeneous environment, which qualitatively reflects the transport properties of a polymeric membrane with carbon nanotubes. We derived Fokker-Planck equation from system of stochastic equations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-19 Ilia Kalashnikov , Polina Likhomanova

We consider a Markov process on a Riemannian manifold, which solves a stochastic differential equation in the interior of the manifold and jumps according to a deterministic reset map when it reaches the boundary. We derive a partial…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julien Bect , Hana Baili , Gilles Fleury