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In this paper we investigate the extent to which variable porosity drug-eluting coatings can provide better control over drug release than coatings where the porosity is constant throughout. In particular, we aim to establish the potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-29 Sean McGinty , David King , Giuseppe Pontrelli

The paper deals with the homogenization of reaction-diffusion equations with large reaction terms in a multi-scale porous medium. We assume that the fractures and pores are equidistributed and that the coefficients of the equations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Hermann Douanla , Jean Louis Woukeng

The diffusion of molecules in complex intracellular environments can be strongly influenced by spatial heterogeneity and stochasticity. A key challenge when modelling such processes using stochastic random walk frameworks is that negative…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Elliot J. Carr , Matthew J. Simpson

Simulation of stochastic spatially-extended systems is a challenging problem. The fundamental quantities in these models are individual entities such as molecules, cells, or animals, which move and react in a random manner. In big systems,…

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Efficient exploration of the vast chemical space is a fundamental challenge in materials design and discovery, particularly for designing functional inorganic crystalline materials with targeted properties. Diffusion-based generative models…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Sourav Mal , Nehad Ahmed , Junaid Jami , Subhankar Mishra , Prasenjit Sen

Score-based generative modelling (SGM) has proven to be a very effective method for modelling densities on finite-dimensional spaces. In this work we propose to extend this methodology to learn generative models over functional spaces. To…

Design and characterisation of capsules is not an easy task owing to the multiple involved preparation factors and parameters. Here, a novel method to characterise capsule membrane permeability to solute molecules by an inverse approach is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Clément Bielinski , Badr Kaoui

In this paper, we study stochastic homogenization of a coupled diffusion-reaction system. The diffusion-reaction system is coupled to stochastic differential equations, which govern the changes in the media properties. Though homogenization…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Hakima Bessaih , Yalchin Efendiev , Razvan Florian Maris

It is shown that the equilibrium Generalized Mean Spherical Model of fluid structure may be extended to nonequilibrium states with equation of state information used in equilibrium replaced by an exact condition on the two-body distribution…

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We propose a new class of generative diffusion models, called functional diffusion. In contrast to previous work, functional diffusion works on samples that are represented by functions with a continuous domain. Functional diffusion can be…

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Two-scale homogenization limits of parabolic cross-diffusion systems in a heterogeneous medium with no-flux boundary conditions are proved. The heterogeneity of the medium is reflected in the diffusion coefficients or by the perforated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Ansgar Juengel , Mariya Ptashnyk

Diffusion behaviors of heterogeneous materials are of paramount importance in many engineering problems. Numerical models that take into account the internal structure of such materials are robust but computationally very expensive. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Jan Eliáš , Hao Yin , Gianluca Cusatis

Score-based diffusion models in infinite-dimensional function spaces provide a mathematically principled framework for modelling function-valued data, offering key advantages such as resolution invariance and the ability to handle irregular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 James Rowbottom , Elizabeth L. Baker , Nick Huang , Ben Adcock , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Alexander Denker

Stochastic modeling has become a popular approach to quantify uncertainty in flows through heterogeneous porous media. The uncertainty in heterogeneous structure properties is often parameterized by a high-dimensional random variable. This…

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Reaction-diffusion processes are the foundational model for a diverse range of complex systems, ranging from biochemical reactions to social agent-based phenomena. The underlying dynamics of these systems occur at the individual…

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The purpose of this work is to investigate the behavior of Multiscale Finite Element type methods for advection-diffusion problems in the advection-dominated regime. We present, study and compare various options to address the issue of the…

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Diffusion models (DMs) have been adopted across diverse fields with its remarkable abilities in capturing intricate data distributions. In this paper, we propose a Fast Diffusion Model (FDM) to significantly speed up DMs from a stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zike Wu , Pan Zhou , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hanwang Zhang

We introduce a homogenization approach to characterize the dynamical response of a generic dispersive spacetime crystal in the long-wavelength limit. The theory is applied to dispersive spacetime platforms with a travelling-wave modulation.…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-26 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

In this paper we develop two mathematical models to predict the release kinetics of a water soluble drug from a polymer/excipient matrix tablet. The first of our models consists of a random walk on a weighted graph, where the vertices of…

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