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In this work, we consider one-dimensional particles interacting in mean-field type through a bounded kernel. In addition, when particles hit some barrier (say zero), they are removed from the system. This absorption of particles is…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Gaoyue Guo , Maxime Latypov , Milica Tomasevic

This note outlines a mean-field approach to dynamic optimal transport problems based on the recently proposed McKean-Pontryagin maximum principle. Key aspects of the proposed methodology include i) avoidance of sampling over stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Sebastian Reich

In most models of traffic flow, the car density $p$ is the only free parameter in determining the average car velocity $\langle v \rangle$. The critical car density $p_c$, which is defined to be the car density separating the jamming phase…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 H. F. Chau , P. M. Hui , Y. F. Woo

Statistical mechanics of a disordered system of cars on a single-lane road is developed. Behaviour of cars is defined by conditional probability of car velocity depending on the distance and velocity of the car ahead. A system consisting of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-13 Anton Šurda

The influence of crowding on the diffusion of tagged particles in a dense medium is investigated in the framework of a mean-field model, derived in the continuum limit from a microscopic stochastic process with exclusion. The probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Amos Maritan , Francesco Piazza

Understanding the nature of traffic heterogeneity is of major importance, given the widespread adoption of micromobility in cities. Based on massive field data and a nonequilibrium model, we demonstrate that heterogeneous, multispecies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Georg Anagnostopoulos , Nikolas Geroliminis

We present a microscopic model of a charge carrier transfer under an action of a constant electric field in a complex medium. Generalizing previous theoretical approaches, we model the dynamical environment hindering the carrier motion by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Benichou , J. Klafter , M. Moreau , G. Oshanin

In a recent work [A. Deger et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 160601 (2022)] we have shown that kinetic constraints can completely arrest many-body chaos in the dynamics of a classical, deterministic, translationally-invariant spin system with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-02 Aydin Deger , Achilleas Lazarides , Sthitadhi Roy

We present regularity results for nonlinear drift-diffusion equations of porous medium type (together with their incompressible limit). We relax the assumptions imposed on the drift term with respect to previous results and additionally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Noemi David , Filippo Santambrogio , Markus Schmidtchen

Particle suspensions in confined geometries can become clogged, which can have a catastrophic effect on function in biological and industrial systems. Here, we investigate the macroscopic dynamics of suspensions in constricted geometries.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-23 Anushka Herale , Philip Pearce , Duncan Hewitt

Motivated by a number of recent experimental and computational studies of the dynamics of fluids plunged in quenched-disordered external fields, we report on a theoretical investigation of this topic within the framework of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-05 Thomas Konincks , Vincent Krakoviack

We study a one-dimensional totally asymmetric exclusion process with random particle attachments and detachments in the bulk. The resulting dynamics leads to unexpected stationary regimes for large but finite systems. Such regimes are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Parmeggiani , T. Franosch , E. Frey

We are interested in the numerical simulations of the Euler system with variable congestion encoded by a singular pressure. This model describes for instance the macroscopic motion of a crowd with individual congestion preferences. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Pierre Degond , Piotr Minakowski , Laurent Navoret , Ewelina Zatorska

In this work we give a proof of the mean-field limit for $\lambda$-convex potentials using a purely variational viewpoint. Our approach is based on the observation that all evolution equations that we study can be written as gradient flows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-12 J. A. Carrillo , M. G. Delgadino , G. A. Pavliotis

A field deterministic model of the vehicular dynamics in a generic urban street canyon with two neighboring canyons is considered. The assumed hydrodynamical model of vehicular movement is coupled to the gasdynamical model of the air and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

We study the collective dynamics of a population of particles/organisms subject to self-consistent attraction-repulsion interactions and an external velocity field. The starting point of our analysis is a mean-field kinetic model and we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Thierry Goudon , Antoine Mellet

We introduce and study a family of cooperative exclusion processes whose microscopic dynamics is governed by selective kinetic constraints. They display, in sharp contrast to the simple symmetric exclusion process, density profiles that can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Mauro Sellitto

Experimental results for congested pedestrian traffic are presented. For data analysis we apply a method providing measurements on an individual scale. The resulting velocity-density relation shows a coexistence of moving and stopping…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-06-18 A. Seyfried , A. Portz , A. Schadschneider

Recent empirical studies have reported that spatiotemporal congestion clusters in urban traffic exhibit scale-free statistics, with cluster size following a power-law distribution. In this study, we address whether macroscopic continuum…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-08 Yuki Chiba , Norikazu Saito , Yuki Ueda , Hiroaki Yoshida

Thermal motion in complex fluids is a complicated stochastic process but ubiquitously exhibits initial ballistic, intermediate sub-diffusive, and long-time non-Gaussian diffusive motion, unless interrupted. Despite its relevance to numerous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-09-04 Sanggeun Song , Seong Jun Park , Bong June Sung , Jun Soo Kim , Ji-Hyun Kim , Jaeyoung Sung