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In this work, we consider the discretization of some nonlinear Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equations. The scheme we propose preserves the non-negativity of the solution, conserves the mass and, as the discretization parameters tend to zero,…

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We consider a Langevin equation with variable drift and diffusion coefficients separable in time and space and its corresponding Fokker-Planck equation in the Stratonovich approach. From this Fokker-Planck equation we obtain a class of…

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Diffusion in inhomogeneous materials can be described by both the Fick and Fokker--Planck diffusion equations. Here, we study a mixed Fick and Fokker-Planck diffusion problem with coefficients rapidly oscillating both in space and time. We…

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We examine the validity of the Fokker-Planck equation with linear force coefficients as an approximation to the kinetic equation of nucleation in homogeneous isothermal multicomponent condensation. Starting with a discrete equation of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Yuri S. Djikaev , Eli Ruckenstein , Mark Swihart

We propose and study discontinuous Galerkin methods for strongly degenerate convection-diffusion equations perturbed by a fractional diffusion (L\'evy) operator. We prove various stability estimates along with convergence results toward…

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We investigate the hydrodynamic limit problem for a kinetic flocking model. We develop a GCI-based Hilbert expansion method, and establish rigorously the asymptotic regime from the kinetic Cucker-Smale model with a confining potential in a…

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This paper is devoted to the study of some nonlinear parabolic equations with discontinuous diffusion intensities. Such problems appear naturally in physical and biological models. Our analysis is based on variational techniques and in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Dohyun Kwon , Alpár Richárd Mészáros

We study the De Giorgi-Moser-Nash estimates of higher-order parabolic equations in divergence form with complex-valued, measurable, bounded, uniformly elliptic (in the sense of G$\mathring{a}$rding inequality) and time-independent…

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We consider Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities on the sphere which interpolate between the Poincar\'e inequality and the Sobolev inequality, and include the logarithmic Sobolev inequality as a special case. We establish explicit stability…

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We establish the existence and uniqueness of weak and renormalized solutions to a degenerate, hypoelliptic Mean Field Games system with local coupling. An important step is to obtain $L^{\infty}-$bounds for solutions to a degenerate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Nikiforos Mimikos-Stamatopoulos

We establish the global existence of weak solutions to a nonlinear kinetic Fokker--Planck equation with degenerate diffusion, under either inflow or partial absorption-reflection boundary conditions. The novelty of our approach lies in…

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In this note, we consider a kinetic Fokker-Planck-Alignment equation with Rayleigh-type friction and self-propulsion force which is derived from general environmental averaging models. We show the exponential relaxation in time toward…

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This paper is concerned with a kineitc-fluid model with random initial inputs in the fine particle regime, which is a system coupling the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations that model dispersed…

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We consider a class of degenerate equations satisfying a parabolic H\"ormander condition, with coefficients that are measurable in time and H\"older continuous in the space variables. By utilizing a generalized notion of strong solution, we…

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We obtain solutions of the nonlinear degenerate parabolic equation \[ \frac{\partial \rho}{\partial t} = {div} \Big\{\rho \nabla c^\star [ \nabla (F^\prime(\rho)+V) ] \Big\} \] as a steepest descent of an energy with respect to a convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martial Agueh

We study the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation on the whole space with a confining potential. We show quantitative rates of exponential convergence to equilibrium in a well chosen Wasserstein-1 distance. We use the Wasserstein-1 version of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Josephine Evans

We introduce a class of (possibly) degenerate dispersive equations with a drift. We prove that, under the H\"ormander hypoellipticity condition, the relevant Cauchy problem can be uniquely solved in the Schwartz class, and the solution…

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We prove the existence of infinitely many time-periodic solutions of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations using pseudo-holomorphic curve methods from Hamiltonian Floer theory. For the generalization of the Gromov-Floer compactness theorem to…

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In this paper, we introduce and analyse numerical schemes for the homogeneous and the kinetic L\'evy-Fokker-Planck equation. The discretizations are designed to preserve the main features of the continuous model such as conservation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Nathalie Ayi , Maxime Herda , Hélène Hivert , Isabelle Tristani

Several classes of physical systems exhibit ultraslow diffusion for which the mean squared displacement at long times grows as a power of the logarithm of time ("strong anomaly") and share the interesting property that the probability…

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