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We consider in this paper subdiffusion in a system with a thin membrane. The subdiffusion parameters are the same in both parts of the system separated by the membrane. Using the random walk model with discrete time and space variables the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz

Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have gained significant attention for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. These methods approximate the domain by replacing sharp boundaries with a diffuse layer of thickness…

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A model is developed for the transport of heat and solute in a system of double-diffusive layers under astrophysical conditions (viscosity and solute diffusivity low compared with the thermal diffusivity). The process of formation of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. C. Spruit

Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have garnered significant attention for approximating solutions to partial differential equations on complex geometries. These methods implicitly represent the geometry by replacing the sharp boundary interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Toai Luong , Tadele Mengesha , Steven M. Wise , Ming Hei Wong

This paper considers particle propagation in a cylindrical molecular communication channel, e.g. a simplified model of a blood vessel. Emitted particles are influenced by diffusion, flow, and a vertical force induced e.g. by gravity or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Maximilian Schäfer , Wayan Wicke , Rudolf Rabenstein , Robert Schober

In this paper, we establish a general convergence theorem for solutions of multivariate stochastic differential equations with countably many singular terms expressed as integrals with respect to local times. The processes under…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Olga Aryasova , Ilya Pavlyukevich , Andrey Pilipenko

Chernoff approximations of Feller semigroups and the associated diffusion processes in Riemannian manifolds are studied. The manifolds are assumed to be of bounded geometry, thus including all compact manifolds and also a wide range of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Sonia Mazzucchi , Valter Moretti , Ivan Remizov , Oleg Smolyanov

We establish the convergences (with respect to the simulation time $t$; the number of particles $N$; the timestep $\gamma$) of a Moran/Fleming-Viot type particle scheme toward the quasi-stationary distribution of a diffusion on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Lucas Journel , Pierre Monmarché

We establish a novel convergent iteration framework for a weak approximation of general switching diffusion. The key theoretical basis of the proposed approach is a restriction of the maximum number of switching so as to untangle and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Qinjing Qiu , Reiichiro Kawai

When water is present in a medium with pore sizes in a range around 10nm the corresponding freezing point depression will cause long range broadening of a melting front. Describing the freezing-point depression by the Gibbs-Thomson equation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-08 Eirik G. Flekkøy , Erika Eiser , Alex Hansen

This paper proposes a novel reaction-diffusion system approximation tailored for singular diffusion problems, typified by the fast diffusion equation. While such approximation methods have been successfully applied to degenerate parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Hideki Murakawa , Florian Salin

We study semi-linear evolutionary problems where the linear part is the generator of a positive $C_0$-semigroup. The non-linear part is assumed to be quasi-increasing. Given an initial value in between a sub- and a super-solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Wolfgang Arendt , Daniel Daners

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

We consider sequences of additive functionals of difference approximations for uniformly non-degenerate multidimensional diffusions. The conditions are given, sufficient for such a sequence to converge weakly to a W-functional of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexey M. Kulik

We consider a reaction--diffusion equation in a domain consisting of two bulk regions connected via small channels periodically distributed within a thin layer. The height and the thickness of the channels are of order $\epsilon$, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Apratim Bhattacharya , Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu

We analyze new phenomena arising in linear damped wave equations on unbounded domains when the damping is allowed to become unbounded at infinity. We prove the generation of a contraction semigroup, study the relation between the spectra of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Pedro Freitas , Petr Siegl , Christiane Tretter

We consider self-similar approximations of nonlinear hyperbolic systems in one space dimension with Riemann initial data and general diffusion matrix. We assume that the matrix of the system is strictly hyperbolic and the diffusion matrix…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-16 K. T. Joseph , Philippe G. LeFloch

In this article we propose a generalization of the theory of diffusion approximation for random ODE to a nonlinear system of random Schr\"{o}dinger equations. This system arises in the study of pulse propagation in randomly birefringent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-14 A. de Bouard , M. Gazeau

We present a general mechanistic model of mass diffusion for a composite sphere placed in a large ambient medium. The multi-layer problem is described by a system of diffusion equations coupled via interlayer boundary conditions such as…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Elliot J. Carr , Giuseppe Pontrelli

We construct a coarse-grained effective two-dimensional (2d) hydrodynamic theory as a theoretical model for a coupled system of a fluid membrane and a thin layer of a polar active fluid in its ordered state that is anchored to the membrane.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-15 Niladri Sarkar , Abhik Basu