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We study the main properties of the solution of a Fokker-Planck equation characterized by a variable diffusion coefficient and a polynomial superlinear drift, modeling the formation of consensus in a large interacting system of individuals.…
We derive the Strong Harnack inequality for a class of hypoelliptic integro-differential equations in divergence form. The proof is based on a priori estimates, and as such extends the first non-stochastic approach of the non-local…
The present paper concerns the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for microlocally symmetrizable hyperbolic systems whose coefficients and symmetrizer are log-Lipschitz continuous, uniformly in time and space variables. For the global in…
Accurate free-energy estimation is essential in molecular simulation, yet the periodic boundary conditions (PBC) commonly used in computer simulations have rarely been explicitly exploited. Equilibrium methods such as umbrella sampling,…
For periodic initial data with the density allowing vacuum, we establish the global existence and exponential decay of weak, strong and classical solutions to the two-dimensional(2D) compressible Navier-Stokes equations when the bulk…
In this paper, we consider the passive scalar solutions in shear flows with critical points. With a detailed hypocoercivity functional, we develop streamline-wise enhanced dissipation estimates.
We prove the global existence of weak solutions to the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with ripped density in the half-plane under a slip boundary condition provided the bulk viscosity coefficient is properly large.…
We propose a method to analyze the dynamics of systems exhibiting slow relaxation which is based on mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The method allows us to obtain kinetic equations of the Fokker-Planck type for the probability…
A common approach to studying high-dimensional systems with emergent low-dimensional behavior is based on lift-evolve-restrict maps (called equation-free methods): first, a user-defined lifting operator maps a set of low-dimensional…
In the Heisenberg group framework, we study rigidity properties for stable solutions of $(-\Delta_H)^s v = f(v)$ in $H$, $s \in (0,1)$. We obtain a Poincar\'e type inequality in connection with a degenerate elliptic equation in $\R^4_+$;…
We consider the classical initial and boundary value problem for the Cahn--Hilliard equation with non-degenerate mobility and singular (e.g., logarithmic) potential. We prove that any weak solution converges to a single equilibrium using…
We develop an adaptive method of time layers with a linearly implicit Rosenbrock method as time integrator and symmetric interior penalty Galerkin method for space discretization for the advective Allen-Cahn equation with…
Local kinetic equilibration is a prerequisite for hydrodynamics to be valid. Here it is described through a nonlinear diffusion equation for finite systems of fermions and bosons. The model is solved exactly for constant transport…
In this paper, we conduct uniform error estimates of the bi-fidelity method for multi-scale kinetic equations. We take the Boltzmann and the linear transport equations as important examples. The main analytic tool is the hypocoercivity…
In this paper we accomplish the development of the fast rank-adaptive solver for tensor-structured symmetric positive definite linear systems in higher dimensions. In [arXiv:1301.6068] this problem is approached by alternating minimization…
First order semi-linear coupling of scalar hypoelliptic equations of second order leads to a natural class of incompressible Navier Stokes equation systems, which encompasses systems with variable viscosity and essentially Navier Stokes…
We establish global hypoelliptic estimates for linear Landau-type operators. Linear Landau-type equations are a class of inhomogeneous kinetic equations with anisotropic diffusion whose study is motivated by the linearization of the Landau…
In this paper, we develop and analyze a novel numerical scheme for the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations by the weak Galerkin methods. The divergence-preserving velocity reconstruction operator is employed in the discretization…
In this paper we establish H\"older continuity estimates for viscosity solutions to first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations linked to linear control systems satisfying the Kalman rank condition. Our model Hamiltonians are non-convex in the…