English
Related papers

Related papers: Probability flow solution of the Fokker-Planck equ…

200 papers

The exit time probability, which gives the likelihood that an initial condition leaves a prescribed region of the phase space of a dynamical system at, or before, a given time, is arguably one of the most natural and important transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Minglei Yang , Guannan Zhang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Miroslav Stoyanov

Stochastic uncertainties in complex dynamical systems lead to variability of system states, which can in turn degrade the closed-loop performance. This paper presents a stochastic model predictive control approach for a class of nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Edward A. Buehler , Joel A. Paulson , Ali Akhavan , Ali Mesbah

The stochastic transport of suspended particles through a periodic pattern of obstacles in microfluidic devices is investigated by means of the Fokker-Planck equation. Asymmetric arrays of obstacles have been shown to induce the continuous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhigang Li , German Drazer

Active systems comprise a class of nonequilibrium dynamics in which individual components autonomously dissipate energy. Efforts towards understanding the role played by activity have centered on computation of the entropy production rate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-22 Nicholas M. Boffi , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Accurate prediction of rarefied gas flows is important for space vehicle design, particularly in rarefied regimes where the Navier-Stokes equations are no more valid. While the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method acts as a numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-01 Joonbeom Kim , Eunji Jun

A new class of integro-partial differential equation models is derived for the prediction of granular flow dynamics. These models are obtained using a novel limiting averaging method (inspired by techniques employed in the derivation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Denis Blackmore , Roman Samulyak , Anthony Rosato

We present a new path integral method to analyze stochastically perturbed ordinary differential equations with multiple time scales. The objective of this method is to derive from the original system a new stochastic differential equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-08-20 Tobias Schaefer Richard O. Moore

I report a study of the nonstationary one-dimensional Fokker-Planck solutions by means of the strictly isospectral method of supesymmetric quantum mechanics. The main conclusion is that this technique can lead to a space-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 H. C. Rosu

We develop a finite difference scheme based on a grid staggered by flux points and solution points to solve Fokker-Planck equations with drift-admitting jumps. To satisfy the matching conditions at the jumps, i.e., the continuities of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Yaming Chen , Xiaogang Deng

The optimization of the usual entropy $S_1[p]=-\int du p(u) ln p(u)$ under appropriate constraints is closely related to the Gaussian form of the exact time-dependent solution of the Fokker-Planck equation describing an important class of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Constantino Tsallis , Dirk Jan Bukman

We study the relationship between information- and estimation-theoretic quantities in time-evolving systems. We focus on the Fokker-Planck channel defined by a general stochastic differential equation, and show that the time derivatives of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Andre Wibisono , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

This paper derives the non-analytic solution to the Fokker-Planck equation of fractional Brownian motion using the method of Laplace transform. Sequentially, by considering the fundamental solution of the non-analytic solution, this paper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Visant Ahuja

Emerging sampling algorithms based on normalizing flows have the potential to solve ergodicity problems in lattice calculations. Furthermore, it has been noted that flows can be used to compute thermodynamic quantities which are difficult…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-10-02 Jan M. Pawlowski , Julian M. Urban

We present a new method, Non-Stationary Forward Flux Sampling, that allows efficient simulation of rare events in both stationary and non-stationary stochastic systems. The method uses stochastic branching and pruning to achieve uniform…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-03 Nils B. Becker , Rosalind J. Allen , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

A diffusion's induced transport is defined for a linear model of a Fokker-Plank equation under periodic boundary conditions in one-dimensional geometry. The flow is generated by a diffusion and a periodic deriving force induced by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-04 Gershon Wolansky

We study the problem of estimating a sequence of evolving probability distributions from historical data, where the underlying distribution changes over time in a nonstationary and nonparametric manner. To capture gradual changes, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Edward J. Anderson , Dominic S. T. Keehan

Modeling transformations between arbitrary data distributions is a fundamental scientific challenge, arising in applications like drug discovery and evolutionary simulation. While flow matching offers a natural framework for this task, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shiye Su , Yuhui Zhang , Linqi Zhou , Rajesh Ranganath , Serena Yeung-Levy

The probabilistic approach to turbulence is applied to investigate density fluctuations in supersonic turbulence. We derive kinetic equations for the probability distribution function (PDF) of the logarithm of the density field, $s$, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , Åke Nordlund

In this paper, we study the long-time behaviour of solutions to the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation where the confining potential is non-convex. This is a nonlocal nonlinear partial differential equation describing the time evolution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Manh Hong Duong , Julian Tugaut

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