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We consider first-order conservative systems of particles with binary Coulomb interactions in the mean-field scaling regime in dimensions $d\geq 3$. We show that if at some time, the associated sequence of empirical measures converges in a…

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Sufficiently fine granular systems appear to exhibit continuum properties, though the precise continuum limit obtained can be vastly different depending on the particular system. We investigate the continuum limit of an unconfined, dense…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Nicholas Guttenberg

The continuous limit of large systems of particles of finite size on the line is described. The particles are assumed to move freely and stick under collision, to form compound particles whose mass and size is the sum of the masses and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gershon Wolansky

We revisit the classic problem of determining optimal routes in a graph for transporting two given distributions defined on its nodes, originally studied by Wardrop and Beckmann in the 1950s. The global congestion profile at any given time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Hector Andres Chang-Lara , Sergio David Zapeta-Tzul

This paper presents two one-dimensional mathematical models describing automobile traffic flow on straight road segments at a signalized intersection. When the traffic light is permissive, the flow density and velocity are obtained by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Akbota Senkebayeva

The overdamped dynamics of a charged particle driven by an uniform electric field through a random sequence of scatterers in one dimension is investigated. Analytic expressions of the mean velocity and of the velocity power spectrum are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kunz , R. Livi , A. Suto

We consider linear and nonlinear transport equations with irregular velocity fields, motivated by models coming from mean field games. The velocity fields are assumed to increase in each coordinate, and the divergence therefore fails to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Pierre-Louis Lions , Benjamin Seeger

We study a driven zero range process which models a closed system of attractive particles that hop with site-dependent rates and whose steady state shows a condensation transition with increasing density. We characterise the dynamical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kavita Jain , Mustansir Barma

The phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases in traps is reviewed from a theoretical perspective. Mean-field theory provides a framework to understand the main features of the condensation and the role of interactions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Dalfovo , S. Giorgini , L. P. Pitaevskii , S. Stringari

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

In this paper, starting from the microscopic dynamics of isolated dislocations, we explain how to derive formally mean field models for the dynamics of dislocation densities. Essentially these models are tranport equations, coupled with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-16 Ahmad El Hajj , H. Ibrahim , Régis Monneau

Suspensions of swimming particles exhibit complex collective behaviors driven by hydrodynamic interactions, showing persistent large-scale flows and long-range correlations. While heavily studied, it remains unclear how such structures…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-27 Bryce Palmer , Scott Weady , Michael O'Brien , Blakesley Burkhart , Michael J. Shelley

We provide a proof of mean-field convergence of first-order dissipative or conservative dynamics of particles with Riesz-type singular interaction (the model interaction is an inverse power $s$ of the distance for any $0<s<d$) when assuming…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Quoc Hung Nguyen , Matthew Rosenzweig , Sylvia Serfaty

Liquid droplet dynamics are widely used in biological and engineering applications, which contain complex interfacial instabilities and pattern formation such as droplet merging, splitting, and transport. This paper studies a class of mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Guosheng Fu , Hangjie Ji , Will Pazner , Wuchen Li

We study the behavior of the stationary velocity of a driven particle in an environment of mobile hard-core obstacles. Based on a lattice gas model, we demonstrate analytically that the drift velocity can exhibit a nonmonotonic dependence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 O. Bénichou , P. Illien , G. Oshanin , A. Sarracino , R. Voituriez

In the spirit of the macroscopic crowd motion models with hard congestion (i.e. a strong density constraint $\rho\leq 1$) introduced by Maury {\it et al.} some years ago, we analyze a variant of the same models where diffusion of the agents…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-03 Alpár Richárd Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio

Mean field dynamos may explain the origin of large scale magnetic fields of galaxies, but controversy arises over the extent of dynamo quenching by the growing field. Here we explain how apparently conflicting results may be mutually…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric G. Blackman , George B. Field

This paper introduces a system of stochastic differential equations (SDE) of mean-field type that models pedestrian motion. The system lets the pedestrians spend time at, and move along, walls, by means of sticky boundaries and boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Alexander Aurell , Boualem Djehiche

Similar to the treatment of dense gases, fluid-dynamic equations for the dynamics of congested vehicular traffic are derived from Enskog-like kinetic equations. These contain additional terms due to the anisotropic vehicle interactions. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing

We derive a framework to compute optimal controls for problems with states in the space of probability measures. Since many optimal control problems constrained by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) modelling interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Martin Burger , René Pinnau , Claudia Totzeck , Oliver Tse