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We study impulse response in 1-D homogeneous micro-granular chains on a linear elastic substrate. Micro-granular interactions are analytically described by the Schwarz contact model which includes nonlinear compressive as well as…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-20 Jonathan Bunyan , Alexander F. Vakakis , Sameh Tawfick

We study the modeling of a compressible two-phase flow in a porous medium. The governing free boundary problem is known as the Verigin problem with phase transition. We introduce a novel variational framework to construct weak solutions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Anna Kubin , Tim Laux , Alice Marveggio

A well-known property of linear resistive electrical networks is that the current distribution minimizes the total dissipated energy. When the circuit includes resistors with nonlinear monotonic characteristic, the current distribution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Franco Blanchini , Daniele Casagrande , Filippo Fabiani , Giulia Giordano , David Palma , Raffaele Pesenti

This paper presents a Wasserstein attraction approach for solving dynamic mass transport problems over networks. In the transport problem over networks, we start with a distribution over the set of nodes that needs to be "transported" to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-28 Ferran Arqué , César A. Uribe , Carlos Ocampo-Martinez

We study the long time behavior of the Wasserstein gradient flow for an energy functional consisting of two components: particles are attracted to a fixed profile $\omega$ by means of an interaction kernel $\psi_a(z)=|z|^{q_a}$,and they…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-13 Marco Di Francesco , Massimo Fornasier , Jan-Christian Hütter , Daniel Matthes

The well-posedness and regularity properties of diffusion-aggregation equations, emerging from interacting particle systems, are established on the whole space for bounded interaction force kernels by utilizing a compactness convergence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Li Chen , Paul Nikolaev , David J. Prömel

It is shown that the supports of measures minimizing weakly repulsive energies on Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounded below do not have concentration points. This extends the results of Bj\"orck and Carrillo, Figalli, and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Oleksandr Vlasiuk

In this paper, we study the equilibria of an anisotropic, nonlocal aggregation equation with nonlinear diffusion which does not possess a gradient flow structure. Here, the anisotropy is induced by an underlying tensor field. Anisotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-08 José A. Carrillo , Bertram Düring , Lisa Maria Kreusser , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

An algebraic lower bound on the energy decay for solutions of the advection-diffusion equation in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d=2,3$ is derived using the Fourier splitting method. Motivated by a conjecture on mixing of passive scalars in fluids, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Camilla Nobili , Steffen Pottel

Collective diffusion coefficient in a one dimensional lattice gas adsorbate is calculated using variational approach. Particles interact via either a long-range, or a long range electron-gas-mediated (for a metallic substrate), or a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-26 Filip Krzyżewski , Magdalena A. Załuska-Kotur

Interacting particle systems provide a fundamental framework for modeling collective behavior in biological, social, and physical systems. In many applications, stochastic perturbations are essential for capturing environmental variability…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-04 Su Yang , Weiqi Chu , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We study an aggregation PDE with competing attractive and repulsive forces on a sphere of arbitrary dimension. In particular, we consider the limit of strongly localized repulsion with a constant attraction term. We prove convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Mark A. Peletier , Anna Shalova

We propose a fully discrete variational scheme for nonlinear evolution equations with gradient flow structure on the space of finite Radon measures on an interval with respect to a generalized version of the Wasserstein distance with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Jonathan Zinsl , Daniel Matthes

This paper is concerned with the macroscopic behavior of global energy minimizers in the three-dimensional sharp interface unscreened Ohta-Kawasaki model of diblock copolymer melts. This model is also referred to as the nuclear liquid drop…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Hans Knuepfer , Cyrill Muratov , Matteo Novaga

We investigate the bounds between normal or anomalous effective diffusion for inertial particles transported by parallel flows. The infrared behavior of the fluid kinetic-energy spectrum, i.e. the possible presence of long-range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-07 Marco Martins Afonso

Suppose that under the action of gravity, liquid drains through the unit $d$-cube via a minimal-length network of channels constrained to pass through random sites and to flow with nonnegative component in one of the canonical orthogonal…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-09-01 Mathew D. Penrose , Andrew R. Wade

We prove the convergence of a particle method for the approximation of diffusive gradient flows in one dimension. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles and preserves the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-09 J. A. Carrillo , F. S. Patacchini , P. Sternberg , G. Wolansky

We consider the gradient flow of a quadratic non-autonomous energy under monotonicity constraint in time and natural regularity assumptions. We provide first a notion of weak solution, inspired by the theory of curves of maximal slope, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Matteo Negri , Masato Kimura

Gradient bounds had proved to be a very efficient tool for the control of the rate of convergence to equilibrium for parabolic evolution equations. Among the gradient bounds methods, the celebrated Bakry-\'Emery criterion is a powerful way…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Fabrice Baudoin

We expand on a previous study of fronts in finite particle number reaction-diffusion systems in the presence of a reaction rate gradient in the direction of the front motion. We study the system via reaction-diffusion equations, using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisheva Cohen , David A. Kessler , Herbert Levine