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We study the asymptotic behaviour of a gradient system in a regime in which the driving energy becomes singular. For this system gradient-system convergence concepts are ineffective. We characterize the limiting behaviour in a different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Mark A. Peletier , Mikola C. Schlottke

This paper is concerned with the mean-field limit for the gradient flow evolution of particle systems with pairwise Riesz interactions, as the number of particles tends to infinity. Based on a modulated energy method, using regularity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Mitia Duerinckx

Motivated by recent work on approximation of diffusion equations by deterministic interacting particle systems, we develop a nonlocal approximation for a range of linear and nonlinear diffusion equations and prove convergence of the method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Katy Craig , Matt Jacobs , Olga Turanova

In this paper we analyse a class of nonlinear cross-diffusion systems for two species with local repulsive interactions that exhibit a formal gradient flow structure with respect to the Wasserstein metric. We show that systems where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-11 M. Burger , J. A. Carrillo , J. -F. Pietschmann , M. Schmidtchen

We analyze the gradient flow of a potential energy in the space of probability measures when we substitute the optimal transport geometry with a geometry based on Sinkhorn divergences, a debiased version of entropic optimal transport. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Mathis Hardion , Hugo Lavenant

Understanding particle motion in narrow channels is essential to guide progress in numerous applications, from filtration to vascular transport. Thermal or active fluctuations of channel walls for fluid-filled channels can slow down or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-29 Yating Wang , David S. Dean , Sophie Marbach , Ruben Zakine

We consider a one-dimensional aggregation-diffusion equation, which is the gradient flow in the Wasserstein space of a functional with competing attractive-repulsive interactions. We prove that the fully deterministic particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Sara Daneri , Emanuela Radici , Eris Runa

High-quality power flow datasets are essential for training machine learning models in power systems. However, security and privacy concerns restrict access to real-world data, making statistically accurate and physically consistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Milad Hoseinpour , Vladimir Dvorkin

This paper presents a particle-based optimization method designed for addressing minimization problems with equality constraints, particularly in cases where the loss function exhibits non-differentiability or non-convexity. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 José A. Carrillo , Shi Jin , Haoyu Zhang , Yuhua Zhu

The behavior of particles driven through a narrow constriction is investigated in experiment and simulation. The system of particles adapts to the confining potentials and the interaction energies by a self-consistent arrangement of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-10-15 P. Henseler , A. Erbe , M. Köppl , P. Leiderer , P. Nielaba

We prove a threshold phenomenon for the existence/non-existence of energy minimizing solitary solutions of the diffraction management equation for strictly positive and zero average diffraction. Our methods allow for a large class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Mi-Ran Choi , Dirk Hundertmark , Young-Ran Lee

We study an implicit finite-volume scheme for non-linear, non-local aggregation-diffusion equations which exhibit a gradient-flow structure, recently introduced by Bailo, Carrillo, and Hu (2020). Crucially, this scheme keeps the dissipation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Rafael Bailo , Jose A. Carrillo , Hideki Murakawa , Markus Schmidtchen

This work introduces a new class of cross-diffusion systems for studying overcrowding dispersal of two species. The approach, based on proximal minimization energy through a minimum flow process, offers a potential generalization of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Noureddine Igbida

The aim of this paper is to provide a mathematical analysis of transformer architectures using a self-attention mechanism with layer normalization. In particular, observed patterns in such architectures resembling either clusters or uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Martin Burger , Samira Kabri , Yury Korolev , Tim Roith , Lukas Weigand

We investigate transient clustering dynamics in nonlocal aggregation-diffusion systems from an energetic perspective. Starting from a stochastic interacting particle system, we study the associated macroscopic McKean-Vlasov equation on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Nathalie Wehlitz , Richard Scherzer , Carsten Hartmann , Stefanie Winkelmann

We investigate the existence of ground states for a free energy functional on Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. The energy, which consists of an entropy and an interaction term, is associated to a macroscopic aggregation model that includes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 José A. Carrillo , Razvan C. Fetecau , Hansol Park

Magnetic fields and magnetic materials have promising microfluidic applications. For example, magnetic micro-convection can enhance mixing considerably. However, previous studies have not explained increased effective diffusion during this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-11 Guntars Kitenbergs , Andrejs Cēbers

A comprehensive methodology for establishing the existence of gradient flows for cross-diffusion systems with respect to suitable energies is proposed. The approach is based on the construction of piecewise-in-time constant approximations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Mathias Dus , Ansgar Jüngel

This thesis analyze the Wasserstein gradient flow of a functional defined as a double convolution of a non-smooth repulsive interaction potential. To be more precise, the potential under investigation has a -|x| behavior close to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Giovanni A. Bonaschi

We consider a class of optimization problems on the space of probability measures motivated by the mean-field approach to studying neural networks. Such problems can be solved by constructing continuous-time gradient flows that converge to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Petra Lazić , Linshan Liu , Mateusz B. Majka