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The diffusion of molecules in complex intracellular environments can be strongly influenced by spatial heterogeneity and stochasticity. A key challenge when modelling such processes using stochastic random walk frameworks is that negative…

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We study the problem of homogenization for inertial particles moving in a time dependent random velocity field and subject to molecular diffusion. We show that, under appropriate assumptions on the velocity field, the large--scale,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Pavliotis , A. M. Stuart , K. C. Zygalakis

This paper is devoted to the homogenization of Shr\"odinger type equations with periodically oscillating coefficients of the diffusion term, and a rapidly oscillating periodic time-dependent potential. One convergence theorem is proved and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Lazarus Signing

We are investigating the effective heat transfer in complex systems involving porous media and surrounding fluid layers in the context of mathematical homogenization. We differentiate between two fundamentally different cases: Case (a),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Michael Eden , Tom Freudenberg

We study the simultaneous homogenization and dimension reduction of an energy functional with linear growth defined on the space of manifold valued Sobolev functions. The study is carried out by $\Gamma$-convergence, providing an integral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Luca Lussardi , Andrea Torricelli , Elvira Zappale

We consider a non-relativistic quantum particle in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2$ or $d = 3$, interacting with singular zero-range potentials concentrated on a large collection of points. We analyze the homogenization regime where the intensities of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Domenico Cafiero , Michele Correggi , Davide Fermi

The aim of the paper is to introduce an alternative notion of two-scale convergence which gives a more natural modeling approach to the homogenization of partial differential equations with periodically oscillating coefficients: while…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-20 François Alouges , Giovanni Di Fratta

We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Gerhard Kitzler , Joachim Schöberl

This paper deals with the large-scale behaviour of dynamical optimal transport on $\mathbb{Z}^d$-periodic graphs with general lower semicontinuous and convex energy densities. Our main contribution is a homogenisation result that describes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

We establish a rate of convergence of the two scale expansion (in the sense of homogenization theory) of the solution to a highly oscillatory elliptic partial differential equation with random coefficients that are a perturbation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-25 C. Le Bris , F. Legoll , F. Thomines

The linear Boltzmann equation describes the macroscopic transport of a gas of non-interacting point particles in low-density matter. It has wide-ranging applications, including neutron transport, radiative transfer, semiconductors and ocean…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Jens Marklof , Andreas Strömbergsson

We rigorously derive a homogenized model for the Poisson--Nernst--Planck (PNP) equations for the case of multiple species defined on a periodic porous medium in spatial dimensions two and three. This extends the previous homogenization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Apratim Bhattacharya

This paper is devoted to the homogenization of the heat conduction equation, with a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, having a periodically oscillating thermal conductivity and a vanishing volumetric heat capacity. A homogenization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Tatiana Danielsson , Pernilla Johnsen

We present a novel method to solve the spatially homogeneous and isotropic relativistic Boltzmann equation. We employ a basis set of orthogonal polynomials dynamically adapted to allow for emergence of chemical non-equilibrium. Two time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Jeremiah Birrell , Jon Wilkening , Johann Rafelski

We consider an approximation of the linearised equation of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation that describes the distribution of quasiparticles in a dilute gas of bosons at low temperature. The corresponding collision frequency is neither…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Miguel Escobedo , Minh-Binh Tran

We investigate the large time behavior of solutions to the spatially homogeneous linear Boltzmann equation from a semigroup viewpoint. Our analysis is performed in some (weighted) $L^{1}$-spaces. We deal with both the cases of hard and soft…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Bertrand Lods , Mustapha Mokhtar-Kharroubi

We consider a nonlinear Neumann problem, with periodic oscillation in the elliptic operator and on the boundary condition. Our focus is on problems posed in half-spaces, but with general normal directions that may not be parallel to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Sunhi Choi , Inwon Kim

We consider the temporal homogenization of linear ODEs of the form $\dot{x}=Ax+\epsilon P(t)x+f(t)$, where $P(t)$ is periodic and $\epsilon$ is small. Using a 2-scale expansion approach, we obtain the long-time approximation $x(t)\approx…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Molei Tao , Houman Owhadi

We consider a system of differential equations in a fast long range dependent random environment and prove a homogenization theorem involving multiple scaling constants. The effective dynamics solves a rough differential equation, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Johann Gehringer , Xue-Mei Li

This paper is concerned with the optimal convergence rate in homogenization of higher order parabolic systems with bounded measurable, rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients. The sharp $O(\va)$ convergence rate in the space $L^2(0,T;…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Weisheng Niu , Yao Xu