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We develop an intrinsic geometric approach to calculus of variations on Wasserstein space. We show that the flows associated to the Schroedinger bridge with general prior, to Optimal Mass Transport and to the Madelung fluid can all be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Giovanni Conforti , Michele Pavon

Optimal transportation distances are valuable for comparing and analyzing probability distributions, but larger-scale computational techniques for the theoretically favorable quadratic case are limited to smooth domains or regularized…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Justin Solomon , Raif Rustamov , Leonidas Guibas , Adrian Butscher

We consider two variational models for transport networks, an urban planning and a branched transport model, in both of which there is a preference for networks that collect and transport lots of mass together rather than transporting all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Alessio Brancolini , Benedikt Wirth

This work originates from a heart's images tracking which is to generate an apparent continuous motion, observable through intensity variation from one starting image to an ending one both supposed segmented. Given two images p0 and p1, we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Olivier Besson , Martine Picq , Jérôme Pousin

Geophysical flows are typically composed of wave and mean motions with a wide range of overlapping temporal scales, making separation between the two types of motion in wave-resolving numerical simulations challenging. Lagrangian filtering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 Lois E. Baker , Hossein A. Kafiabad , Cai Maitland-Davies , Jacques Vanneste

The deterministic variant of the Lambert's problem was posed by Lambert in the 18th century and its solution for conic trajectory has been derived by many, including Euler, Lambert, Lagrange, Laplace, Gauss and Legendre. The solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Alexis M. H. Teter , Iman Nodozi , Abhishek Halder

We consider large-scale traffic assignment problems and develop a path-based compression framework. In particular, we partition paths into major and minor paths according to a set of nominal flows and a prescribed threshold, and retain the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Xuesong , Zhou , Peiheng Li , Yuchao Li , Dimitri Bertsekas

We study a nonlinear, degenerate cross-diffusion model which involves two densities with two different drift velocities. A general framework is introduced based on its gradient flow structure in Wasserstein space to derive a notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Inwon Kim , Alpár R. Mészáros

Fluid deformation and strain history are central to wide range of fluid mechanical phenomena ranging from fluid mixing and particle transport to stress development in complex fluids and the formation of Lagrangian coherent structures…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-03 Daniel R. Lester , Marco Dentz , Tanguy Le Borgne , Felipe P. J. de Barros

In this paper, we apply the framework of optimal transport to the formulation of optimal design problems. By considering the Wasserstein space as a set of design variables, we associate each probability measure with a shape configuration of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Fumiya Okazaki , Takayuki Yamada

The population dynamics of molecules, cells, and organisms are governed by a number of unknown forces. In the last decade, population dynamics have predominantly been modeled with Wasserstein gradient flows. However, since gradient flows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Vincent Guan , Lazar Atanackovic , Kirill Neklyudov

Wasserstein 1 optimal transport maps provide a natural correspondence between points from two probability distributions, $\mu$ and $\nu$, which is useful in many applications. Available algorithms for computing these maps do not appear to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Tristan Milne , Étienne Bilocq , Adrian Nachman

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck system of equations used to model ionic transport is interpreted as a gradient flow for the Wasserstein distance and a free energy in the space of probability measures with finite second moment. A variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 David Kinderlehrer , Léonard Monsaingeon , Xiang Xu

Human mobility, enabled by diverse transportation modes, is fundamental to urban functionality. Studying these movements across scales-from microscopic to macroscopic-yields valuable insights into urban dynamics. Local adaptation and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-21 Babak Benam , Abolfazl Ramezanpour

Lagrangian particle tracking is essential for characterizing turbulent flows, but inferring particle acceleration from inherently noisy position data remains a significant challenge. Fluid particles in turbulence experience extreme,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-02-27 Griffin M Kearney , Kasey M Laurent , Makan Fardad

We consider the incompressible three-dimensional Euler equations for a vortex ring with Kelvin waves undergoing radially expanding Lagrangian transport. To clarify the fundamental mechanisms underlying nonlinear scale-local deformations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Tsuyoshi Yoneda

We propose a dynamic domain semi-Lagrangian method for stochastic Vlasov equations driven by transport noises, which arise in plasma physics and astrophysics. This method combines the volume-preserving property of stochastic characteristics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Jianbo Cui , Derui Sheng , Chenhui Zhang , Tau Zhou

This monograph develops a comprehensive statistical learning framework that is robust to (distributional) perturbations in the data using Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) under the Wasserstein metric. Beginning with fundamental…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-23 Ruidi Chen , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

In this paper, we establish a set of criteria which are applied to discuss various formulations under which Lagrangian stochastic models can be found. These models are used for the simulation of fluid particles in single-phase turbulence as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-13 J. -P. Minier , S. Chibbaro , S. B. Pope

We develop a fast and scalable numerical approach to solve Wasserstein gradient flows (WGFs), particularly suitable for high-dimensional cases. Our approach is to use general reduced-order models, like deep neural networks, to parameterize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Yijie Jin , Shu Liu , Hao Wu , Xiaojing Ye , Haomin Zhou