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We consider a reaction-diffusion-advection problem in a perforated medium, with nonlinear reactions in the bulk and at the microscopic boundary, and low diffusion scaling. The microstructure changes in time; the microstructural evolution is…

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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

In this paper, we study a numerical approximation for a class of stationary states for reaction-diffusion system with m densities having disjoint support, which are governed by a minimization problem. We use quantitative properties of both…

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We develop a micromorphic-based approach for finite element stabilization of reaction-convection-diffusion equations, by gradient enhancement of the field of interest via introducing an auxiliary variable. The well-posedness of the…

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Particle methods based on evolving the spatial derivatives of the solution were originally introduced to simulate reaction-diffusion processes, inspired by vortex methods for the Navier--Stokes equations. Such methods, referred to as…

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We establish the existence of solutions to a class of non-linear stochastic differential equation of reaction-diffusion type in an infinite-dimensional space, with diffusion corresponding to a given transition kernel. The solution obtained…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Conrado da Costa , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Daniel Valesin

In this article we consider the numerical approximation of the convection-diffusion-reaction equation. One of the main challenges of designing a numerical method for this problem is that boundary layers occurring in the convection-dominated…

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Fully non-linear equations of motion for dissipative general relativistic multi-fluids can be obtained from an action principle involving the explicit use of lower dimensional matter spaces. More traditional strategies for incorporating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Thomas Celora , Nils Andersson , Greg L. Comer

Gradient flows of the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence, such as the Fokker--Planck equation and Stein Variational Gradient Descent, evolve a distribution toward a target density known only up to a normalizing constant. We introduce new…

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We present and study a novel class of one-dimensional Hilbert space eigenfunction transforms that diagonalize analytic difference operators encoding the (reduced) two-particle relativistic hyperbolic Calogero-Moser dynamics. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 Steven Haworth , Simon Ruijsenaars

Gradient-flow sampling interprets a Gibbs distribution as the minimizer of an energy functional over probability measures and generates dynamics converging to this target. Under spherical Hellinger-Kantorovich (SHK) geometry, the flow…

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We consider a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. We present our analytical results on the existence, uniqueness (up…

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We use the distances introduced in a previous joint paper to exhibit the gradient flow structure of some drift-diffusion equations for a wide class of entropy functionals. Functional inequalities obtained by the comparison of the entropy…

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We propose a variational form of the BDF2 method as an alternative to the commonly used minimizing movement scheme for the time-discrete approximation of gradient flows in abstract metric spaces. Assuming uniform semi-convexity --- but no…

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We address the question of ambiguity in defining a Hamiltonian for a scalar field. We point out that the Hamiltonian for a real Klein-Gordon scalar field must be consistent with the energy density obtained from the Schrodinger equation in…

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The purpose of this work is to investigate root finding problems defined on (quasi-)metric spaces, and ranging in Euclidean spaces. The motivation for this line of inquiry stems from recent models in biology and phylogenetics, where…

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In this paper a reaction-diffusion type equation is the starting point for setting up a genuine thermodynamic reduction, i.e. involving a finite number of parameters or collective variables, of the initial system. This program is carried…

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The aim of this paper is to establish the convergence and error bounds to the fully discrete solution for a class of nonlinear systems of reaction-diffusion nonlocal type with moving boundaries, using a linearized Crank-Nicolson-Galerkin…

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In this paper we study a family of semilinear reaction-diffusion equations on thin spatial domains, lying close to a lower dimensional submanifold $M$. As the thickness tends to zero, the domains collapse onto (a subset of) $M$. As it was…

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