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We show that the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation evolves as the gradient flow of the entropy with respect to a suitable geometry on the space of probability measures which takes the collision process into account. This gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Matthias Erbar

Inspired by the gradient flow viewpoint of the Landau equation and the corresponding dynamic formulation of the Landau metric in [arXiv:2007.08591], we develop a novel implicit particle method for the Landau equation in the framework of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Yan Huang , Li Wang

Landau damping is the tendency of solutions to the Vlasov equation towards spatially homogeneous distribution functions. The distribution functions however approach the spatially homogeneous manifold only weakly, and Boltzmann entropy is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Michal Pavelka , Vaclav Klika , Miroslav Grmela

This paper contains two contributions in the study of optimal transport on metric graphs. Firstly, we prove a Benamou-Brenier formula for the Wasserstein distance, which establishes the equivalence of static and dynamical optimal transport.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Matthias Erbar , Dominik Forkert , Jan Maas , Delio Mugnolo

The Landau equation is a kinetic equation based on the weak coupling approximation of the interaction between the particles. In the framework of dry active matter this new kinetic equation relies on the weak coupling approximation of both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-19 Aurelio Patelli

We revisit the grazing collision limit connecting the Boltzmann equation to the Landau(-Fokker-Planck) equation from their recent reinterpretations as gradient flows. Our results are in the same spirit as the $\Gamma$-convergence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-03 José Carrillo , Matias Delgadino , Jeremy Wu

We prove that the isotropic Landau equation equipped with the Coulomb potential introduced by Krieger-Strain and Gualdani-Guillen can be identified with the gradient flow of the entropy in the probability space with respect to a Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Jing An , Lexing Ying

We consider a test particle moving in a random distribution of obstacles in the plane, under the action of a uniform magnetic field, orthogonal to the plane. We show that, in a weak coupling limit, the particle distribution behaves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matteo Marcozzi , Alessia Nota

Going beyond the linearized study has been a longstanding problem in the theory of Landau damping. In this paper we establish exponential Landau damping in analytic regularity. The damping phenomenon is reinterpreted in terms of transfer of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Clément Mouhot , Cédric Villani

The aggregation equation arises naturally in kinetic theory in the study of granular media, and its interpretation as a 2-Wasserstein gradient flow for the nonlocal interaction energy is well-known. Starting from the spatially homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-24 A. Esposito , R. S. Gvalani , A. Schlichting , M. Schmidtchen

The classical (overdamped) Langevin dynamics provide a natural algorithm for sampling from its invariant measure, which uniquely minimizes an energy functional over the space of probability measures, and which concentrates around the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Giovanni Conforti , Daniel Lacker , Soumik Pal

We consider a system of N particles interacting via a short-range smooth potential, in a intermediate regime between the weak-coupling and the low-density. We provide a rigorous derivation of the Linear Landau equation from this particle…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Nicolò Catapano

We prove the well-posedness of entropy solutions for a wide class of nonlocal transport equations with nonlinear mobility in one spatial dimension. The solution is obtained as the limit of approximations constructed via a deterministic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Simone Fagioli , Oliver Tse

We study the pointwise (in the space and time variables) behavior of the linearized Landau equation for hard and moderately soft potentials. The solution has very clear description in the $(x,t)-$variables, including large time behavior and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Haitao Wang , Kung-Chien Wu

In this paper, we present new estimates for the entropy dissipation of the Landau-Fermi-Dirac equation (with hard or moderately soft potentials) in terms of a weighted relative Fisher information adapted to this equation. Such estimates are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Ricardo J. Alonso , Véronique Bagland , Laurent Desvillettes , Bertrand Lods

We prove a bound on the entropy dissipation for the Boltzmann collision operator from below by a weighted $L^p$-Norm. The estimate holds for a wide range of potentials including soft potentials as well as very soft potentials. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Jamil Chaker , Luis Silvestre

We systematically derived hydrodynamic equations and transport coefficients for a class of multi-speed lattice Boltzmann models in D dimensions, using the multi-scale technique. The constitutive relation of physical fluid is recovered by a…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 Yu Chen , Hirotada Ohashi , Mamoru Akiyama

We study the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation on graphs, which is the gradient flow in the space of probability measures supported on the nodes with respect to the discrete Wasserstein metric. The energy functional driving the gradient flow…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Shui-Nee Chow , Wuchen Li , Haomin Zhou

When expressed in Lagrangian variables, the equations of motion for compressible (barotropic) fluids have the structure of a classical Hamiltonian system in which the potential energy is given by the internal energy of the fluid. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Thomas Gallouët , Quentin Merigot , Andrea Natale

A linearized Vlasov-Poisson system of equations is transformed into a Schr\"{o}dinger equation, which is used to demonstrate that the fluctuation theorem holds for the relative stochastic entropy, defined in terms of the probability density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Hideo Sugama
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