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We study the vanishing-regularization limit of entropically regularized optimal transport (EOT) for the Euclidean distance cost $c(x,y)=\|x-y\|$ in dimension $d>1$. We develop a comprehensive variational convergence framework that entails…

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We prove the well-posedness of entropy solutions for a wide class of nonlocal transport equations with nonlinear mobility in one spatial dimension. The solution is obtained as the limit of approximations constructed via a deterministic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Simone Fagioli , Oliver Tse

The shear viscosity $\eta$ of a quark-gluon plasma in equilibrium can be calculated analytically using multiple methods or numerically using the Green-Kubo relation. It has been realized, which we confirm here, that the Chapman-Enskog…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-27 Noah M. MacKay , Zi-Wei Lin

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to calculate transport coefficients in a two-component plasma interacting through a repulsive Coulomb potential. The thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, electrothermal coefficient,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Briggs Damman , Jarett LeVan , Scott Baalrud

In this contribution we summarize recent results on the transport properties of strongly correlated dilute Fermi gases. We discuss the hydrodynamic equations in the normal phase and present new results on the structure of second order terms…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Thomas Schaefer

This work deals with the asymptotic distribution of both potentials and couplings of entropic regularized optimal transport for compactly supported probabilities in $\R^d$. We first provide the central limit theorem of the Sinkhorn…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Alberto Gonzalez-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Jonathan Niles-Weed

The aim of this article is to show that the Monge-Kantorovich problem is the limit of a sequence of entropy minimization problems when a fluctuation parameter tends down to zero. We prove the convergence of the entropic values to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Christian Léonard

For a plasma in a stationary homogeneous turbulence, the Fokker-Planck equation is derived from the nonlinear Vlasov equation by introducing the entropy principle. The ensemble average in evaluating the kinetic diffusion tensor, whose…

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On the basis of the linear response transport theory, the general expressions for the thermoelectric transport coefficients, such as thermoelectric power (S), Nernst coefficient (\nu), and thermal conductivity (\kappa), are derived by using…

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Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

A kinetic model for granular mixtures is considered to study three different non-equilibrium situations. The model is based on the equivalence between a gas of elastic hard spheres subjected to a drag force proportional to the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-27 Pablo Avilés , David González Méndez , Vicente Garzó

We extract local current distributions from interatomic currents calculated using a fully relativistic quantum mechanical scattering formalism by interpolation onto a three-dimensional grid. The method is illustrated with calculations for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-06 Rohit S. Nair , Paul J. Kelly

Transport of spherical Brownian particles of finite size possessing radii through narrow channels with varying cross-section area is considered. Applying the so-called Fick-Jacobs approximation, i.e. assuming fast equilibration in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Wolfgang Riefler , Gerhard Schmid , P Sekhar Burada , Peter Hanggi

In Braginskii extended magneto-hydrodynamics (ExMHD), applicable to collisional astrophysical and high energy density plasmas, the electric field and heat flow are described by the $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\kappa$ transport coefficients. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 James D. Sadler , Christopher A. Walsh , Hui Li

Classical hydrodynamics rests on the point-particle idealization, leading to parabolic transport equations, infinite signal speeds, and the inability to capture finite time relaxation, anisotropic transport, or non Fourier thermal…

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Numerically solving the Boltzmann kinetic equations with the small Knudsen number is challenging due to the stiff nonlinear collision term. A class of asymptotic preserving schemes was introduced in [6] to handle this kind of problems. The…

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We consider the LP in standard form min {c T x\,: Ax = b; x $\ge$ 0} and inspired by $\epsilon$-regularization in Optimal Transport, we introduce its $\epsilon$-regularization ''min {c T x + $\epsilon$ f (x)\,: Ax = b; x $\ge$ 0}'' via the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Saroj Prasad Chhatoi , Jean B Lasserre

The Navier-Stokes transport coefficients of a granular gas are obtained from the Chapman-Enskog solution to the Boltzmann equation. The granular gas is heated by the action of an external driving force (thermostat) which does work to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Garzo , J. M. Montanero

We propose an entropic approximation approach for optimal transportation problems with a supremal cost. We establish $\Gamma$-convergence for suitably chosen parameters for the entropic penalization and that this procedure selects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Guillaume Carlier , Camilla Brizzi , Luigi De Pascale

We introduce the von Neumann entropy regularization of Unbalanced Non-commutative Optimal Transport, specifically Non-commutative Optimal Transport between semi-definite positive matrices (not necessarily with trace one). We prove the…

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