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We study some accurate semiclassical resolvent estimates for operators that are neither selfadjoint nor elliptic, and applications to the Cauchy problem. In particular we get a precise description of the spectrum near the imaginary axis and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Herau , Johannes Sjoestrand , Christiaan C. Stolk

Inspired by the modeling of grain growth in polycrystalline materials, we consider a nonlinear Fokker-Plank model, with inhomogeneous diffusion and with variable mobility parameters. We develop large time asymptotic analysis of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Yekaterina Epshteyn , Chang Liu , Chun Liu , Masashi Mizuno

In Part I of this contribution, a systematic coarse-grained description of the dynamics of a weakly-bending semiflexible polymer was developed. Here, we discuss analytical solutions of the established deterministic partial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-12-04 Oskar Hallatschek , Erwin Frey , Klaus Kroy

We present a numerical solution of the Worm-Like Chain (WLC) model for semi-flexible polymers. We display graphs for the end-to-end distance distribution and the force-extension relation expected from the model. We predict the expected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Joseph Samuel , Supurna Sinha

In this paper we are interested in the large time behavior of linear kinetic equations with heavy-tailed local equilibria. Our main contribution concerns the kinetic L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation, for which we adapt hypocoercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Nathalie Ayi , Maxime Herda , Hélène Hivert , Isabelle Tristani

Solutions of semiflexible polymers confined by repulsive planar walls are studied by density functional theory and Molecular Dynamics simulations, to clarify the competition between the chain alignment favored by the wall and the depletion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-25 Sergei A. Egorov , Andrey Milchev , Peter Virnau , Kurt Binder

The issue of the relaxation to equilibrium has been at the core of the kinetic theory of rarefied gas dynamics. In the paper, we introduce the Deep Neural Network (DNN) approximated solutions to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Hyung Ju Hwang , Jin Woo Jang , Hyeontae Jo , Jae Yong Lee

This paper is devoted to the study of a kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with general heavy-tailed equilibrium without an explicit formula, such as $C_\beta \langle v \rangle^{-\beta}$, in particular non-symmetric and non-centred. This work…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Dahmane Dechicha

In this paper we compute asymptotics of solutions of the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation with inelastic boundary conditions which indicate that the solutions are nonunique if $r < r_c$. The nonuniqueness is due to the fact that different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Hyung Ju Hwang , Juhi Jang , Juan J. L. Velázquez

This article studies a Fokker-Planck type equation of fractional diffusion with conservative drift $\partial$f/$\partial$t = $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) f + div(Ef), where $\Delta$^($\alpha$/2) denotes the fractional Laplacian and E is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Laurent Lafleche

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of some semilinear elliptic boundary value problems involving the Laplace operator with linear and nonlinear highest order boundary conditions involving the Laplace-Beltrami…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-14 Ciprian G. Gal , Gisele Ruiz Goldstein , Jerome A. Goldstein , Silvia Romanelli , Mahamadi Warma

The two-dimensional transient problem that is studied concerns a semi-infinite crack in an isotropic solid comprising an infinite strip and a half-plane joined together and having the same elastic constants. The crack propagates along the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Y. A. Antipov , A. V. Smirnov

Kinetics of systems specified by anharmonic, nonconservative and nonlocally coupled model Hamiltonians is reproduced in the Fokker-Planck and imaginary time Schrodinger equation techniques with subsequent symplectic integration. Test…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Klotins

The longitudinal response of single semiflexible polymers to sudden changes in externally applied forces is known to be controlled by the propagation and relaxation of backbone tension. Under many experimental circumstances, realized, e.g.,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-25 Florian Thüroff , Benedikt Obermayer , Erwin Frey

The aim of the present paper is twofold:(1) We carry on with developing an abstract method for deriving decay estimates on the semigroup associated to non-symmetric operators in Banach spaces as introduced in [10]. We extend the method so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-28 S Mischler , C Mouhot

The time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation is a key model for characterizing anomalous diffusion, stochastic transport, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications in finance, chaotic dynamics, optical physics, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Neetu Garg , Varsha R

We propose a two fluid theory to model a dilute polymer solution assuming that it consists of two phases, polymer and solvent, with two distinct macroscopic velocities. The solvent phase velocity is governed by the macroscopic Navier-Stokes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Alexei Lozinski , Robert G. Owens

We derive the Frank elastic constants for nematic solutions of semiflexible polymers. We plot these results as a function of the coarse-grained Maier-Saupe quadrupole aligning strength and polymer stiffness ranging from rigid to highly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-18 Quinn MacPherson

We investigate the global existence of weak solutions to a free boundary problem governing the evolution of finitely extensible bead-spring chains in dilute polymers. We construct weak solutions of the two-phase model by performing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-15 Donatella Donatelli , Konstantina Trivisa

We consider the Kramers--Smoluchowski equation at a low temperature regime and show how semiclassical techniques developed for the study of the Witten Laplacian and Fokker--Planck equation provide quantitative results. This equation comes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Laurent Michel , Maciej Zworski