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We study a nonlocal approximation of the Fokker-Planck equation in which we can estimate the speed of convergence to equilibrium in a way which does not degenerate as we approach the local limit of the equation. This uniform estimate cannot…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 José A. Cañizo , Niccolò Tassi

In this paper, we discuss the large--time behavior of solution of a simple kinetic model of Boltzmann--Maxwell type, such that the temperature is time decreasing and/or time increasing. We show that, under the combined effects of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 L. Pareschi , G. Toscani

This work is devoted to studying complex dynamical systems under non-Gaussian fluctuations. We first estimate the Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance for solutions of non-local Fokker-Planck equations associated with stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Ao Zhang , Jinqiao Duan

In this paper, we develop a Galerkin-type approximation, with quantitative error estimates, for weak solutions to the Cauchy problem for kinetic Fokker-Planck equations in the domain $(0, T) \times D \times \mathbb{R}^d$, where $D$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Benny Avelin , Mingyi Hou , Kaj Nyström

We establish the convergence to the equilibrium for various linear collisional kinetic equations (including linearized Boltzmann and Landau equations) with physical local conservation laws in bounded domains with general Maxwell boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Armand Bernou , Kleber Carrapatoso , Stéphane Mischler , Isabelle Tristani

We consider a kinetic model for a two component gas mixture without chemical reactions. Our goal is to study hypocoercivity for the linearized BGK model for gas mixtures in continuous phase space. By constructing an entropy functional, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-15 Liu Liu , Marlies Pirner

In this paper we prove global existence of weak solutions, their regularization, and relaxation for large data for a broad class of Fokker-Planck-Alignment models which appear in collective dynamics. The main feature of these results, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 R. Shvydkoy

We consider an inhomogeneous linear Boltzmann equation, with an external confining potential. The collision operator is a simple relaxation toward a local Maxwellian, therefore without diffusion. We prove the exponential time decay toward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Herau

This paper is concerned with space inhomogeneous quantum Fokker-Planck equations posed on a classical kinetic phase space. The nonlinear factor $f(1\pm f)$ appears both in the transport term and in the collison part of the Fokker-Planck…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Anton Arnold , Marlies Pirner , Gayrat Toshpulatov

We investigate the Cauchy problem and the diffusion asymptotics for a spatially inhomogeneous kinetic model associated to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck operator. We derive the global well-posedness result with instantaneous smoothness effect,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Francesca Anceschi , Yuzhe Zhu

We discuss the approach to equilibrium of systems governed by the Fokker-Planck equation. In particular, we focus on problems involving barrier penetration and the associated Kramers' time. We also describe the connection between stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Himadri S. Samanta , J. K. Bhattacharjee

In this work, we study a class of nonlocal-in-time kinetic models of incompressible dilute polymeric fluids. The system couples a macroscopic balance of linear momentum equation with a mezoscopic subdiffusive Fokker-Planck equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Marvin Fritz , Endre Süli , Barbara Wohlmuth

We consider the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with weak confinement force. We proved some (polynomial and sub-exponential) rate of convergence to the equilibrium (depending on the space to which the initial datum belongs). Our results…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Chuqi Cao

In this paper, we study the Gevrey regularity of weak solution for a class of linear and quasilinear Fokker-Planck equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-21 Hua Chen , Wei-Xi Li , Chao-Jiang Xu

This paper is devoted to the construction of an \emph{eigen-solution} for the Fokker-Planck operator with heavy tail equilibrium. We propose an \textit{alternative} method in dimension 1, which will be generalizable in higher dimension. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Dahmane Dechicha , Marjolaine Puel

We study the well-posedness, steady states and long time behavior of solutions to Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation with external confinement potential and nonlinear self-consistent interactions. Our analysis introduces newly characterized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Pierre Gervais , Maxime Herda

In this paper, we study the global well-posedness of a coupled system of kinetic and fluid equations. More precisely, we establish the global existence of weak solutions for Navier-Stokes-BGK system consisting of the BGK model of Boltzmann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-26 Young-Pil Choi , Seok-Bae Yun

We study the long-time behaviour of a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation, which models the evolution of rigid polymers in a given flow, after a closure approximation. The aim of this work is twofold: first, we propose a microscopic derivation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-20 Lingbing He , Claude Le Bris , Tony Lelièvre

This article deals with kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with essentially bounded coefficients. A weak Harnack inequality for non-negative super-solutions is derived by considering their Log-transform and following S. N. Kruzhkov (1963).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Jessica Guerand , Cyril Imbert

For $p\in(1,\infty)$, let $u(t,x,v)$ and $f(t,x,v)$ be in $L^p(\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d)$ and satisfy the following nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Plank equation on $\mathbb{R}^{1+2d}$ in the weak sense: $$ \partial_t…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Zhen-Qing Chen , Xicheng Zhang