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We analyse the self-diffusiophoresis of a spherical particle animated by a nonuniform chemical reaction at its boundary. We consider two models of solute absorption, one with a specified distribution of interfacial solute flux, and one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-03 Ehud Yariv , Sebastien Michelin

We establish the existence of a solution to a non-linearly coupled elliptic-parabolic system of PDEs describing the single-phase, miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another in a porous medium. We consider a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Jerome Droniou , Kyle S. Talbot

We consider the two dimensional parabolic-elliptic Patlak-Keller-Segel model of chemotactic aggregation for radially symmetric initial data. We show the existence of a stable mechanism of singularity formation and obtain a complete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-13 Pierre Raphael , Remi Schweyer

We consider a class of Fokker--Planck equations with linear diffusion and superlinear drift enjoying a formal Wasserstein-like gradient flow structure with convex mobility function. In the drift-dominant regime, the equations have a finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 José A. Carrillo , Katharina Hopf , José L. Rodrigo

Starting from a particle model describing self-propelled particles interacting through nematic alignment, we derive a macroscopic model for the particle density and mean direction of motion. We first propose a mean-field kinetic model of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Pierre Degond , Sara Merino-Aceituno

The Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations that describes the movement of cells or organisms in response to chemical signals, a phenomenon known as chemotaxis. In this study, we analyze a doubly parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Anne Caroline Bronzi , Crystianne Lilian de Andrade

It is well known that solutions to the Patlak--Keller--Segel system on $\mathbb{R}^2$ blow up in finite time if the initial mass exceeds $8\pi$. In this paper, we investigate the mixing effect induced by a Couette flow $(Ay, 0)$ with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Yubo Chen , Wendong Wang , Guoxu Yang

Structure-preserving discretization of the Rosenbluth-Fokker-Planck equation is still an open question especially for unlike-particle collision. In this paper, a mass-energy-conserving isotropic Rosenbluth-Fokker-Planck scheme is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Takashi Shiroto , Akinobu Matsuyama , Nobuyuki Aiba , Masatoshi Yagi

We define the Dyson diffusion process on a curved smooth closed contour in the plane and derive the Fokker-Planck equation for probability density. Its stationary solution is shown to be the Boltzmann weight for the logarithmic gas confined…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 A. Zabrodin

We derive a Fokker-Planck equation for joint probability density for an active particle coupled two heat reservoirs with harmonic, viscous, random forces. The approximate solution for the joint distribution density of all-to-all and three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-15 Jae-Won Jung , Sung Kyu Seo , Kyungsik Kim

Chemotaxis plays a crucial role in a variety of processes in biology and ecology. In many instances, processes involving chemical attraction take place in fluids. One of the most studied PDE models of chemotaxis is given by Keller-Segel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Alexander Kiselev , Xiaoqian Xu

The Navier-Stokes-Korteweg (NSK) system is a classical diffuse interface model which is based on van der Waals theory of capillarity. Diffuse interface methods have gained much interest to model two-phase flow in porous media. However, for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-28 Jens Keim , Claus-Dieter Munz , Christian Rohde

In this paper we deal with diffusive relaxation limits of nonlinear systems of Euler type modeling chemotactic movement of cells toward Keller--Segel type systems. The approximating systems are either hyperbolic--parabolic or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-07-25 M. Di Francesco , D. Donatelli

A theoretical framework is developed for the phenomenon of non-Gaussian normal diffusion that has experimentally been observed in several heterogeneous systems. From the Fokker-Planck equation with the dynamical structure with largely…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-04 Sumiyoshi Abe

A diffused-interface approach based on the Allen-Cahn phase field equation is developed within a high-order Discontinuous Galerkin framework. The interface capturing technique is based on the balance between explicit diffusion and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-09 Niccolò Tonicello , Matthias Ihme

This paper presents new analytical results for a class of nonlinear parabolic systems of partial different equations with small cross-diffusion which describe the macroscopic dynamics of a variety of large systems of interacting particles.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Luca Alasio , Helene Ranetbauer , Markus Schmidtchen , Marie-Therese Wolfram

Describing particle transport at the macroscopic or mesoscopic level in non-ideal environments poses fundamental theoretical challenges in domains ranging from inter and intra-cellular transport in biology to diffusion in porous media. Yet,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-11 Marta Galanti , Duccio Fanelli , Francesco Piazza

The formulation of a model for the evolution of the flow of a solid-liquid mixture (coal-water) in a horizontal pipeline with partial phase separation is the aim of this work. Problems of instabilities due to complex eigenvalues, observed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-14 Alessandro Speranza

In this work, we study a class of nonlocal-in-time kinetic models of incompressible dilute polymeric fluids. The system couples a macroscopic balance of linear momentum equation with a mezoscopic subdiffusive Fokker-Planck equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Marvin Fritz , Endre Süli , Barbara Wohlmuth

Aggregation-diffusion equations are foundational tools for modelling biological aggregations. Their principal use is to link the collective movement mechanisms of organisms to their emergent space use patterns in a concrete mathematical…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-16 Jonathan R. Potts