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This paper develops and analyzes an efficient numerical method for solving elliptic partial differential equations, where the diffusion coefficients are random perturbations of deterministic diffusion coefficients. The method is based upon…

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We study diffusion processes and stochastic flows which are time-changed random perturbations of a deterministic flow on a manifold. Using non-symmetric Dirichlet forms and their convergence in a sense close to the Mosco-convergence, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Florent Barret , Olivier Raimond

We study a numerical method for convection diffusion equations, in the regime of small viscosity. It can be described as an exponentially fitted conforming Petrov-Galerkin method. We identify norms for which we have both continuity and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Snorre H. Christiansen , Tore G. Halvorsen , Torquil M. Sørensen

Solving Fredholm equations of the first kind is crucial in many areas of the applied sciences. In this work we adopt a probabilistic and variational point of view by considering a minimization problem in the space of probability measures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Francesca R. Crucinio , Valentin De Bortoli , Arnaud Doucet , Adam M. Johansen

Convection-diffusion equations arise in a variety of applications such as particle transport, electromagnetics, and magnetohydrodynamics. Simulation of the convection-dominated regime for these problems, even with high-fidelity techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 James H. Adler , Casey Cavanaugh , Xiaozhe Hu , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

We investigate a coupled hyperbolic-parabolic system modeling thermoelastic diffusion (resp. thermo-poroelasticity) in plates, consisting of a fourth-order hyperbolic partial differential equation for plate deflection and two second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Neela Nataraj , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier , Aamir Yousuf

The method of choice for integrating the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation in high-dimension is to generate samples from the solution via integration of the associated stochastic differential equation. Here, we study an alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Nicholas M. Boffi , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

We propose a deterministic particle method for a one-dimensional nonlocal equation with interactions through the repulsive Morse potential. We show that the particle method converges as the number of particles goes to infinity towards weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Marco Di Francesco , Valeria Iorio , Markus Schmidtchen

Sampling from nonsmooth target probability distributions is essential in various applications, including the Bayesian Lasso. We propose a splitting-based sampling algorithm for the time-implicit discretization of the probability flow for…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-14 Fuqun Han , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

In this work, we systematically benchmark two recently developed deep density methods for nonlinear filtering. We model the filtering density of a discretely observed stochastic differential equation through the associated Fokker--Planck…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Kasper Bågmark , Filip Rydin

We use a deterministic particle method to produce numerical approximations to the solutions of an evolution cross-diffusion problem for two populations. According to the values of the diffusion parameters related to the intra and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Gonzalo Galiano , Virginia Selgas

We devise a stabilized method to weakly enforce bound constraints in the discrete solution of advection-dominated diffusion problems. This method combines a nonlinear penalty formulation with a discontinuous Galerkin-based residual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Roberto J. Cier , Sergio Rojas , Victor M. Calo

It is long known that the Fokker-Planck equation with prescribed constant coefficients of diffusion and linear friction describes the ensemble average of the stochastic evolutions in velocity space of a Brownian test particle immersed in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Kiessling , Carlo Lancellotti

Wasserstein gradient flows have become a central tool for optimization problems over probability measures. A natural numerical approach is forward-Euler time discretization. We show, however, that even in the simple case where the energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Yewei Xu , Qin Li

In this paper a finite difference/local discontinuous Galerkin method for the fractional diffusion-wave equation is presented and analyzed. We first propose a new finite difference method to approximate the time fractional derivatives, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Leilei Wei

In this paper we discuss the local discontinuous Galerkin methods coupled with two specific explicit-implicit-null time discretizations for solving one-dimensional nonlinear diffusion problems $U_t=(a(U)U_x)_x$. The basic idea is to add and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Haijin Wang , Qiang Zhang , Shiping Wang , Chi-Wang Shu

In this paper, we investigate the existence of solution for systems of Fokker-Planck equations coupled through a common nonlinear congestion. Two different kinds of congestion are considered: a porous media congestion or \textit{soft}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Maxime Laborde

We introduce a family of reversible fragmentating-coagulating processes of particles of varying size-scaled diffusivity with strictly local interaction on the real line as mathematically rigorous description of colloidal motion of fluids.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Vitalii Konarovskyi , Max von Renesse

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for a partially observed diffusion. By using the control randomization method in [4], we prove a corresponding randomized dynamic programming principle (DPP) for the value function, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Elena Bandini , Andrea Cosso , Marco Fuhrman , Huyên Pham

This paper is devoted to existence and uniqueness results for classes of nonlinear diffusion equations (or systems) which may be viewed as regular perturbations of Wasserstein gradient flows. First, in the case. where the drift is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Guillaume Carlier , Maxime Laborde