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This is a preliminary announcement of results in the PhD. thesis of the first author concerning the nonlinear stochastic heat equation in the spatial domain $\R$, driven by space-time white noise. A central special case is the parabolic…
We formulate an initial- and Dirichlet boundary- value problem for a linear stochastic heat equation, in one space dimension, forced by an additive space-time white noise. First, we approximate the mild solution to the problem by the…
We derive nonperturbative flow equations within an effective constituent quark model for two quark flavors. Heat-kernel methods are employed for a renormalization group improved effective potential. We study the evolution of the effective…
We derive a non-linear version of the Feynman-Kac formula for the solutions of the vorticity equation in dimension 2 with space periodic boundary conditions. We prove the existence (global in time) and uniqueness for a stochastic terminal…
We propose an edge averaged finite element(EAFE) discretization to solve the Heat-PNP (Poisson-Nernst-Planck) equations approximately. Our method enforces positivity of the computed charged density functions and temperature function. Also…
We establish the local existence and the uniqueness of solutions of the heat equation with a nonlinear boundary condition for the initial data in uniformly local $L^r$ spaces. Furthermore, we study the sharp lower estimates of the blow-up…
We study qualitative properties of initial traces of nonnegative solutions to a semilinear heat equation in a smooth domain under the Dirichlet boundary condition. Furthermore, for the corresponding Cauchy--Dirichlet problem, we obtain…
Let $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold with a family of Riemannian metrics $g_{ij}(t)$ evolving by geometric flow $\partial_{t}g_{ij} = -2{S}_{ij}$, where $S_{ij}(t)$ is a family of smooth symmetric two-tensors on $M$. In this paper we…
Stochastic model of the Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet is proposed and solved using generalization of the Fick-Jacobs theory. The theory fully captures nonlinear response of the ratchet to the difference of heat bath temperatures. The ratchet…
In this paper, we consider the regularity of solutions to elliptic equation with Grushin's operator. By using the Feynman-Kac formula, we first get the expression of heat kernel, and then by using the properties of heat kernel, the optimal…
We show how to extend the concept of heat capacity to nonequilibrium systems. The main idea is to consider the excess heat released by an already dissipative system when slowly changing the environment temperature. We take the framework of…
We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing the interior boundary curve of a doubly connected domain from the knowledge of the temperature and the thermal flux on the exterior boundary curve. The use of the Laguerre transform in time…
In this paper, we derive a general evolution formula for possible Harnack quantities. As a consequence, we prove several differential Harnack inequalities for positive solutions of backward heat-type equations with potentials (including the…
We aim to study nonnegative, global solutions to a general class of nonlocal parabolic equations with bounded measurable coefficients. First, we prove a Widder-type theorem. Such a result has previously been studied only for certain…
In this paper, we establish a global Carleman estimate for stochastic parabolic equations. Based on this estimate, we solve two inverse problems for stochastic parabolic equations. One is concerned with a determination problem of the…
Respecting the laws of thermodynamics is crucial for ensuring that numerical simulations of dynamical systems deliver physically relevant results. In this paper, we construct a structure-preserving and thermodynamically consistent finite…
I study derivative expansions of effective actions at finite temperature, illustrating how the standard methods are badly defined at finite temperature. I then show that by setting up the initial conditions at a finite time, these problems…
In this contribution we show sufficient conditions for simultaneous unique identification of unknown spacewise coefficients and heat source in a parabolic partial differential equation given additional final time measurements. Our approach…
We approach the convergence of the Magnus, Wilcox, and symmetric Wilcox expansions by a non-commutative heat equation derived from the Maurer-Cartan equation.
We study the statistical mechanics of a finite-dimensional non-linear Hamiltonian system (a chain of anharmonic oscillators) coupled to two heat baths (described by wave equations). Assuming that the initial conditions of the heat baths are…