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A model for diffusion in liquids that couples the dynamics of tracer particles to a fluctuating Stokes equation for the fluid is investigated in the limit of large Schmidt number. In this limit, the concentration of tracers is shown to…

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We investigate the statistical properties of Lagrangian tracers transported by a time-correlated compressible renewing flow. We show that the preferential sampling of the phase space performed by tracers yields significant differences…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ajinkya Dhanagare , Stefano Musacchio , Dario Vincenzi

We study transport of a weakly diffusive pollutant (a passive scalar) by thermoconvective flow in a fluid-saturated horizontal porous layer heated from below under frozen parametric disorder. In the presence of disorder (random frozen…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-01-06 Denis S. Goldobin , Elizaveta V. Shklyaeva

Minute amount of long chain flexible polymer dissolved in a turbulent flow can drastically change flow properties, such as reducing the drag and enhancing mixing. One fundamental riddle is how these polymer additives interact with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-02 Yi-Bao Zhang , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Haitao Xu , Heng-Dong Xi

We tackle the problem of sampling from intractable high-dimensional density functions, a fundamental task that often appears in machine learning and statistics. We extend recent sampling-based approaches that leverage controlled stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Cheng-Hao Liu , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

We investigate the dispersion of a passive scalar such as the concentration of a chemical species, or temperature, in homogeneous bubbly suspensions, by determining an effective diffusivity tensor. Defining the longitudinal and transverse…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-03 Aurore Loisy , Aurore Naso , Peter D. M. Spelt

Dense particle-fluid mixtures, or \emph{pastes}, are encountered in the production of various materials, including animal feed, human food, pharmaceuticals, and biomass for bioenergy. The flow behavior of such dense deformable particulate…

We consider stochastic control with discretionary stopping for the drift of a diffusion process over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to choose a control process and a stopping time to minimize the expectation of a convex terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Václav E. Beneš , Georgy Gaitsgori , Ioannis Karatzas

We consider the stability of a compressible shear flow separating two streams of different speeds and temperatures. The velocity and temperature profiles in this mixing layer are hyperbolic tangents. The normal mode analysis of the flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Caillol , M. Ruderman

Real-world data generation often involves complex inter-dependencies among instances, violating the IID-data hypothesis of standard learning paradigms and posing a challenge for uncovering the geometric structures for learning desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Wentao Zhao , Yixuan He , David Wipf , Junchi Yan

Accurate transport algorithms are crucial for computational fluid dynamics and more accurate and efficient schemes are always in development. One dimensional limiting is commonly employed to suppress nonphysical oscillations. However, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-12 James Woodfield , Hilary Weller , Colin J Cotter

Decision trees and diffusion models are ostensibly disparate model classes, one discrete and hierarchical, the other continuous and dynamic. This work unifies the two by establishing a crisp mathematical correspondence between hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sai Niranjan Ramachandran , Suvrit Sra

Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

Active systems are inherently out of equilibrium, as they collect energy from their surroundings and transform it into directed motion. A recent theoretical study suggests that binary mixtures of active particles with distinct effective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-22 Sunita Kumari , Andre S. Nunes , Nuno A. M. Araujo , Margarida Telo da Gama

The weakly compressible methods to simulate incompressible flows are in a state of rapid development, owing to the envisaged efficiency they offer for parallel computing. The pressure waves in such methods travel at finite speeds, and hence…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Dheeraj Raghunathan , Y. Sudhakar

We study the evolution of a localized perturbation in a chemical system with multiple homogeneous steady states, in the presence of stirring by a fluid flow. Two distinct regimes are found as the rate of stirring is varied relative to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zoltan Neufeld , Peter H. Haynes , Tamas Tel

We present several numerical results on granular mixtures. In particular, we examine the efficiency of diffusion as a mixing mechanism in these systems. The collisions are inelastic and to compensate the energy loss, we thermalize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Henrique , G. Batrouni , D. Bideau

Flow matching as a paradigm of generative model achieves notable success across various domains. However, existing methods use either multi-round training or knowledge within minibatches, posing challenges in finding a favorable coupling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Siyu Xing , Jie Cao , Huaibo Huang , Haichao Shi , Xiao-Yu Zhang

In this paper the author studies the problem of the homogenization of a diffusion perturbed by a periodic reflection invariant vector field. The vector field is assumed to have fixed direction but varying amplitude. The existence of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joseph G. Conlon

In this paper we discuss the incompressible limit for multicomponent fluids in the isothermal ideal case. Both a direct limit-passage in the equation of state and the low Mach-number limit in rescaled PDEs are investigated. Using the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Pierre-Etienne Druet