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In this paper we address again the problem of the connection between multitime Brownian sheet and heat type PDEs. The main results include: the volumetric character of the solutions of the forward (backward) diffusion-like PDEs; the forward…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-14 Constantin Udriste , Virgil Damian , Ionel Tevy

In this paper, we develop a Monte Carlo based algorithm for estimating the FPT density of a time-homogeneous SDE through a time-dependent frontier. We consider Brownian bridges as well as localized Daniels curve approximations to obtain…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-02 Imene Allab , Francois Watier

We introduce a unified framework for solving first passage times of time-homogeneous diffusion processes. According to the killed version potential theory and the perturbation theory, we are able to deduce closed-form solutions for…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Angelos Dassios , Luting Li

In the task of predicting spatio-temporal fields in environmental science using statistical methods, introducing statistical models inspired by the physics of the underlying phenomena that are numerically efficient is of growing interest.…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-23 Lucia Clarotto , Denis Allard , Thomas Romary , Nicolas Desassis

Autoregressive next-step prediction models have become the de-facto standard for building data-driven neural solvers to forecast time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs). Denoise training that is closely related to diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zijie Li , Anthony Zhou , Amir Barati Farimani

Propagation characteristics of a wave are defined by the dispersion relationship, from which the governing partial differential equation (PDE) can be recovered. PDEs are commonly solved numerically using the finite-difference (FD) method,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Edward Caunt

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

We investigate the diffusive motion of an overdamped classical particle in a 1D random potential using the mean first-passage time formalism and demonstrate the efficiency of this method in the investigation of the large-time dynamics of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. Gorokhov , G. Blatter

In one-dimensional systems, the dynamics of a Brownian particle are governed by the force derived from a potential as well as by diffusion properties. In this work, we obtain the first-passage-time statistics of a Brownian particle driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-25 Eugenio Urdapilleta

The method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is known to be effective for solving 3D Laplace and Stokes Dirichlet boundary value problems in the exterior of a large collection of simple smooth objects. Here we present new scalable MFS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Anna Broms , Alex H. Barnett , Anna-Karin Tornberg

The first passage is a generic concept for quantifying when a random quantity such as the position of a diffusing molecule or the value of a stock crosses a preset threshold (target) for the first time. The last decade saw an enlightening…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-26 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

In this paper, a space-time generalized finite difference method (ST-GFDM) is proposed to solve the transient Stokes/Parabolic moving interface problem which is a type of fluid-structure interaction problem. The ST-GFDM considers the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Yanan Xing , Haibiao Zheng

An approach was developed to describe the first passage time (FPT) in multistep stochastic processes with discrete states governed by a master equation (ME). The approach is an extension of the totally absorbing boundary approach given for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-15 Babak Shotorban

In this work we propose a novel method to calculate mean first-passage times (MFPTs) for random walks on graphs, based on a dimensionality reduction technique for Markov State Models, known as local-equilibrium (LE). We show that for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-09 Yanik-Pascal Förster , Luca Gamberi , Evan Tzanis , Pierpaolo Vivo , Alessia Annibale

In this paper we study the effect of stochastic perturbations on a common type of moving boundary value PDE's which endorse Stefan boundary conditions, or Stefan problems, and show the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to a number…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-29 Zhi Zheng , Richard B. Sowers

Motivated by experiments in which single-stranded DNA with a short hairpin loop at one end undergoes unforced diffusion through a narrow pore, we study the first passage times for a particle, executing one-dimensional brownian motion in an…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-18 Rhonald C. Lua , Alexander Y. Grosberg

We consider a Markovian jumping process with two absorbing barriers, for which the waiting-time distribution involves a position-dependent coefficient. We solve the Fokker-Planck equation with boundary conditions and calculate the mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-16 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

We present an exact calculation of the mean first-passage time to a target on the surface of a 2D or 3D spherical domain, for a molecule alternating phases of surface diffusion on the domain boundary and phases of bulk diffusion. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-14 J. -F. Rupprecht , O. Bénichou , D. S. Grebenkov , R. Voituriez

We perform extensive MD simulations of two-dimensional systems of hard disks, focusing on the \emph{on}-collision statistical properties. We analyze the distribution functions of velocity, free flight time and free path length for packing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Alessandro Taloni , Yasmine Meroz , Adrián Huerta

We study the distribution of first passage time (FPT) in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation we obtain three results. (1) We derive an explicit expression for the FPT distribution in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding