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In a convergence of machine learning and biology, we reveal that diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms. By considering evolution as a denoising process and reversed evolution as diffusion, we mathematically demonstrate that diffusion…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanbo Zhang , Benedikt Hartl , Hananel Hazan , Michael Levin

We present a model for nonlocal diffusion with Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded smooth domain prescribing the flux through the boundary. We study the limit of this family of nonlocal diffusion operators when a rescaling parameter…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 C. Cortazar , M. Elgueta , J. D. Rossi , N. Wolanski

In this paper we study two different ways of coupling a local operator with a nonlocal one in such a way that the resulting equation is related to an energy functional. In the first strategy the coupling is given via source terms in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Gabriel Acosta , Francisco M. Bersetche , Julio D. Rossi

We present an approach to handle Dirichlet type nonlocal boundary conditions for nonlocal diffusion models with a finite range of nonlocal interactions. Our approach utilizes a linear extrapolation of prescribed boundary data. A novelty is,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Hwi Lee , Qiang Du

We prove that, under a suitable rescaling of the integrable kernel defining the nonlocal diffusion terms, the corresponding sequence of solutions of the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto nonlocal cross-diffusion problem converges to a solution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Gonzalo Galiano , Julián Velasco

In this paper, diffusion in polymer solutions undergoing evaporation of solvent is modeled as a coupled heat and mass transfer problem with moving boundary condition within the framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The proposed…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 Siamak. Shams Es-haghi

We consider a nonlocal aggregation equation with nonlinear diffusion which arises from the study of biological aggregation dynamics. As a degenerate parabolic problem, we prove the well-posedness, continuation criteria and smoothness of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-13 Dong Li , Xiaoyi Zhang

We study the large-time behaviour of nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem for a nonlocal heat equation with a nonlinear convection term. The diffusion operator is the infinitesimal generator of a stable L\'evy process, which may be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Jørgen Endal , Liviu I. Ignat , Fernando Quirós

In this paper we study the dispersive properties related to a model of peridynamic evolution, governed by a non local initial value problem, in the cases of two and three spatial dimensions. The features of the wave propagation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Alessandro Coclite , Giuseppe Maria Coclite , Giuseppe Fanizza , Francesco Maddalena

The aim of this paper is to give a stochastic representation for the solution to a natural extension of the Caputo-type evolution equation. The nonlocal-in-time operator is defined by a hypersingular integral with a (possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Qiang Du , Lorenzo Toniazzi , Zhi Zhou

The paper deals with second order parabolic equations on bounded domains with Dirichlet conditions in arbitrary Euclidean spaces. Their interest comes from being models for describing reaction-diffusion processes in several frameworks. A…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-10 Irene Benedetti , Luisa Malaguti , Valentina Taddei

We develop general heterogeneous nonlocal diffusion models and investigate their connection to local diffusion models by taking a singular limit of focusing kernels. We reveal the link between the two groups of diffusion equations which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Matthieu Alfaro , Thomas Giletti , Yong-Jung Kim , Gwenaël Peltier , Hyowon Seo

Non-local equations of motion contain an infinite number of derivatives and commonly appear in a number of string theory models. We review how these equations can be rewritten in the form of a diffusion-like equation with non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 N. J. Nunes , D. J. Mulryne

This work studies a nonlocal extension of the Klausmeier vegetation model in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $(N \ge 1)$ that incorporates both local and nonlocal diffusion. The biomass dynamics are driven by a nonlocal convolution operator, representing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Md Shah Alam

In this paper we consider the mathematical relationship between nonlocal interactions of convolution type and multiple diffusive substances in high dimensions. Motivated by that the nonlocal evolution equations reproduce similar patterns to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Hiroshi Ishii , Yoshitaro Tanaka

This paper is concerned with the initial-boundary value problem for an evolutionary variational inequality complying with three intrinsic properties: complete irreversibility, unilateral equilibrium of an energy and an energy conservation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Goro Akagi , Kotaro Sato

In this work we study the degenerate diffusion equation $\partial_{t}=x^{\alpha}a\left(x\right)\partial_{x}^{2}+b\left(x\right)\partial_{x}$ for $\left(x,t\right)\in\left(0,\infty\right)^{2}$, equipped with a Cauchy initial data and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Linan Chen , Ian Weih-Wadman

Cell-cell adhesion is an inherently nonlocal phenomenon. Numerous partial differential equation models with nonlocal term have been recently presented to describe this phenomenon, yet the mathematical properties of nonlocal adhesion model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Jaewook Ahn , Myeongju Chae , Jihoon Lee

The existence of global weak solutions to a parabolic energy-transport system in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is proved. The model can be derived in the diffusion limit from a kinetic equation with a linear collision…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Gianluca Favre , Ansgar Jüngel , Christian Schmeiser , Nicola Zamponi

We present an optimization-based coupling method for local and nonlocal continuum models. Our approach couches the coupling of the models into a control problem where the states are the solutions of the nonlocal and local equations, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-02 Marta D'Elia , Pavel Bochev