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The aim of this paper is to study the convergence of the solution of the Fokker-Planck equation to the associated stationary state when time goes to infinity. The force field which we consider here is of a general structure, that is it may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Mamadou Ndao

In this work, Holder continuity is obtained for solutions to the nonlocal kinetic Fokker-Planck Equation, and to a family of related equations with general integro-differential operators. These equations can be seen as a generalization of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Logan F. Stokols

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which contains a variable diffusion coefficient, is discussed and solved. It corresponds to the L\'evy flights in a nonhomogeneous medium. For the case with the linear drift, the solution is stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-09 Tomasz Srokowski

We provide a mathematical analysis of appearance of the concentrations (as Dirac masses) of the solution to a Fokker-Planck system with asymmetric potentials. This problem has been proposed as a model to describe motor proteins moving along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benoit Perthame , Panagiotis E. Souganidis

In this work, we consider the solvability of the Fokker-Planck equation with both time-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients by means of the similarity method. By the introduction of the similarity variable, the Fokker-Planck equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wen-Tsan Lin , Choon-Lin Ho

In this article we investigate hypocoercivity of Langevin-type dynamics in nonlinear smooth geometries. The main result stating exponential decay to an equilibrium state with explicitly computable rate of convergence is rooted in an…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Martin Grothaus , Maximilian Mertin

We study the Fokker-Planck diffusion equation with diffusion coefficient depending periodically on the space variable. Inside a periodic array of inclusions the diffusion coefficient is reduced by a factor called the diffusion magnitude. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 M. Amar , D. Andreucci , E. N. M. Cirillo

We introduce in this paper a new approach to the problem of the convergence to equilibrium for kinetic equations. The idea of the approach is to prove a 'weak' coercive estimate, which implies exponential or polynomial convergence rate. Our…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-07 Minh-Binh Tran

In this paper, global well-posedness of the non-Markovian Unruh-Zurek and Hu-Paz-Zhang master equations with nonlinear electrostatic coupling is demonstrated. They both consist of a Wigner-Poisson like equation subjected to a dissipative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Miguel A. Alejo , José Luis López

In this work, we study a class of nonlocal-in-time kinetic models of incompressible dilute polymeric fluids. The system couples a macroscopic balance of linear momentum equation with a mezoscopic subdiffusive Fokker-Planck equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Marvin Fritz , Endre Süli , Barbara Wohlmuth

Fractional Fokker-Planck equation plays an important role in describing anomalous dynamics. To the best of our knowledge, the existing discussions mainly focus on this kind of equation involving one diffusion operator. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Jing Sun , Weihua Deng , Daxin Nie

We use the methods of commutator and fundamental solutions to establish averaging lemmas and hypoelliptic estimates for purely kinetic transport equations. Assuming certain amount of velocity regularity for solutions, we extend our analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Yuzhe Zhu

The general covariant Fokker-Planck equations associated with the two different versions of covariant Langevin equation in Part I of this series of work are derived, both lead to the same reduced Fokker-Planck equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

Mathematical structure of the reflection coefficients for the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation is studied. A new formalism using differential operators is introduced and applied to the analysis in high- and low-energy regions.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Toru Miyazawa

This note is devoted to a simple method for proving hypocoercivity of the solutions of a kinetic equation involving a linear time relaxation operator, i.e. the construction of an adapted Lyapunov functional satisfying a Gronwall-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Jean Dolbeault , Clément Mouhot , Christian Schmeiser

We first prove a homogenization result for the fundamental solution of the linear kinetic Fokker Planck equation. We show that this solution converges, in an averaged $L^2$ sense, to the fundamental solution of an effective heat equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Philip Gaddy

Fokker-Planck equation with the velocity-dependent coefficients is considered for various isotropic systems on the basis of probability transition (PT) approach. This method provides the self-consistent and universal description of friction…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Trigger

We prove the existence of a contraction rate for Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in Wasserstein distance, provided the interaction potential is (locally) Lipschitz continuous and the confining potential is both Lipschitz continuous and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Arnaud Guillin , Pierre Le Bris , Pierre Monmarché

We consider a Fokker-Planck operator with electric potential and electromagnetic fields. We establish the sharp weighted and subelliptic estimates, involving the control of the derivatives of electric potential and electromagnetic fields.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Wei-Xi Li , Juan Zeng

We consider the convergence of kinetic Langevin dynamics to its ergodic invariant measure, which is Gibbs distribution. Instead of the standard setup where the friction coefficient is a constant scalar, we investigate position-dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Keunwoo Lim , Molei Tao