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A peculiarity of the hydrodynamic Navier-Stokes equations for a granular gas is the modification of the Fourier law, with the presence of an additional contribution to the heat flux that is proportional to the density gradient.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

An inequality of Brascamp and Lieb provides a bound on the covariance of two functions with respect to log-concave measures. The bound estimates the covariance by the product of the $L^2$ norms of the gradients of the functions, where the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Eric A. Carlen , Dario Cordero-Erausquin , Elliott H. Lieb

This paper concerns the physical behaviors of any solutions to the one dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations for viscous and heat conductive gases with constant viscosities and heat conductivity for fast decaying density at far…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Jinkai Li , Zhouping Xin

We establish basic properties of the heat flow on entire holomorphic functions that have order at most 2. We then look specifically at the action of the heat flow on the Gaussian analytic function (GAF). We show that applying the heat flow…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Brian Hall , Ching-Wei Ho , Jonas Jalowy , Zakhar Kabluchko

We introduce the first simple mechanical system that shows fully realistic transport behavior while still being exactly solvable at the level of equilibrium statistical mechanics. The system under consideration is a Lorentz gas with fixed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Mejia-Monasterio , H. Larralde , F. Leyvraz

Thermal gradients induce concentration gradients in alkali halide solutions, and the salt migrates towards hot or cold regions depending on the average temperature of the solution. This effect has been interpreted using the heat of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Silvia Di Lecce , Tim Albrecht , Fernando Bresme

The main goal of the present paper is to provide sharp hypercontractivity bounds of the heat flow $({\sf H}_t)_{t\geq 0}$ on ${\sf RCD}(0,N)$ metric measure spaces. The best constant in this estimate involves the asymptotic volume ratio,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Shouhei Honda , Alexandru Kristály , Alexandru Pîrvuceanu

The paper considers the Ricci flow, coupled with the harmonic map flow between two manifolds. We derive estimates for the fundamental solution of the corresponding conjugate heat equation and we prove an analog of Perelman's differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Mihai Băileşteanu , Hung Tran

We find the hydrodynamic equations of a system of particles constrained to be in the lowest Landau level. We interpret the hydrodynamic theory as a Hamiltonian system with the Poisson brackets between the hydrodynamic variables determined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-27 Michael Geracie , Dam Thanh Son

We establish effective existence and uniqueness for the heat flow on time-dependent Riemannian manifolds, under minimal assumptions tailored towards the study of Ricci flow through singularities. The main point is that our estimates only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Beomjun Choi , Jianhui Gao , Robert Haslhofer , Daniel Sigal

We introduce the notion of an interpolating path on the set of probability measures on finite graphs. Using this notion, we first prove a displacement convexity property of entropy along such a path and derive Prekopa-Leindler type…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-07-24 Nathaël Gozlan , Cyril Roberto , Paul-Marie Samson , Prasad Tetali

We investigate the steady state of heat conduction in general relativity using a variational approach for two-fluid dynamics. We adopt coordinates based on the Landau-Lifschitz observer because it allows us to describe thermodynamics with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Hyeong-Chan Kim

We study m-corotational solutions to the Harmonic Map Heat Flow from $\mathbb{R}^2$ to $\mathbb{S}^2$. We first consider maps of zero topological degree, with initial energy below the threshold given by twice the energy of the harmonic map…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Stephen Gustafson , Dimitrios Roxanas

Liquid-infused surfaces (LIS) can reduce friction drag in both laminar and turbulent flows. However, the heat transfer properties of such multi-phase surfaces have still not been investigated to a large extent. We use numerical simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-11 Johan Sundin , Umberto Ciri , Stefano Leonardi , Marcus Hultmark , Shervin Bagheri

We consider a transport-diffusion equation with L\'{e}vy noises and H\"{o}lder continuous coefficients. By using the heat kernel estimates, we derive the Schauder estimates for the mild solutions. Moreover, when the transport term vanishes…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Jinlong Wei , Jinqiao Duan , Guangying Lv

Ultrafast and nanoscale heat conduction demands a unified theoretical framework that rigorously bridges macroscopic transport equations with microscopic material properties derived from statistical physics.Existing empirical generalizations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-08 David E. Crawford , Yi Zeng , Judith Vidal , Jianjun Dong

We study heat transport in the context of Hamiltonian and related stochastic models with nearest-neighbor coupling, and derive a universal law for the temperature profiles of a large class of such models. This law contains a parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Lai-Sang Young

Let $B_p^n$ be the unit ball of $\ell_p^n$, with $1\le p<2$. We study central densities of one-dimensional marginals of the uniform measure on $B_p^n$ and of its Gaussian heat-flow regularizations. The profile is standardized by multiplying…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Soufiane Fafe

Convection is a key transport phenomenon important in many different areas, from hydrodynamics and ocean circulation to planetary atmospheres or stellar physics. However its microscopic understanding still remains challenging. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-29 P. L. Garrido , P. I. Hurtado

For free energies of the form \[ F(\mu) = E(\mu) + \sigma\int_\Omega \mu\log\mu\,dx, \quad \sigma > 0, \] we study the Wasserstein gradient flow, a continuity equation also known as mean-field Langevin dynamics, around a stationary state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Dante Kalise , Lucas M. Moschen , Grigorios A. Pavliotis