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Structural balance is a classic property of signed graphs satisfying Heider's seminal axioms. Mathematical sociologists have studied balance theory since its inception in the 1040s. Recent research has focused on the development of dynamic…

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Dissipative phenomena manifest in multiple mechanical systems. In this dissertation, different geometric frameworks for modelling non-conservative dynamics are considered. The objective is to generalize several results from conservative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Asier López-Gordón

One field of fluid dynamics concerns the search for variational principles. So far, the Hamiltonian view and Riemannian geometry has been applied to find geodesics for hydrodynamic systems. Compared to Riemannian geometry sub-Riemannian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Annette Müller , Peter Névir

In this paper, the analog of Maxwell electromagnetism for hydrodynamic turbulence, the metafluid dynamics, is extended in order to reformulate the metafluid dynamics as a gauge field theory. That analogy opens up the possibility to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. C. Rodrigues Mendes , W. Oliveira , C. Neves , F. I. Takakura

A first principle explanation of the origin of intermittency and nonlinear structure formation in the Lagrangian velocity increments of a turbulent flow is presented in the context of a scale invariant analytical formalism that is being…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Dhurjati Prasad Datta

In compressible fluid flow, reconstructing shocks, discontinuities, rarefactions, and their interactions from sparse measurements is an important inverse problem with practical applications. Moreover, physics-informed machine learning has…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Rami Cassia , Rich Kerswell

We study the emergence of gradient flows in Wasserstein distance as high friction limits of an abstract Euler flow generated by an energy functional. We develop a relative energy calculation that connects the Euler flow to the gradient flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Corrado Lattanzio , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

The scarcity of labeled data is a long-standing challenge for many machine learning tasks. We propose our gradient flow method to leverage the existing dataset (i.e., source) to generate new samples that are close to the dataset of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Xinru Hua , Truyen Nguyen , Tam Le , Jose Blanchet , Viet Anh Nguyen

Three dimensional unsteady flow of fluids in the Lagrangian description is considered as an autonomous dynamical system in four dimensions. The condition for the existence of a symplectic structure on the extended space is the frozen field…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Gumral

We analyze the gradient flow of a potential energy in the space of probability measures when we substitute the optimal transport geometry with a geometry based on Sinkhorn divergences, a debiased version of entropic optimal transport. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Mathis Hardion , Hugo Lavenant

Information flow between subsystems is a central concept in information thermodynamics, which provides the second-law-like inequalities for subsystems. This paper discusses the geometric decomposition of information flow, which was…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Sosuke Ito , Yoh Maekawa , Ryuna Nagayama , Andreas Dechant , Kohei Yoshimura

We prove that the Gini coefficient of economic inequality is a Lyapunov functional for a class of nonlinear, nonlocal integro-differential equations arising at the intersection of mathematics, economics, and statistical physics. Next, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 David W. Cohen

Assuming a-priori a smooth generating vector field, we introduce a generally covariant measure of the flow geometry called the referential gradient of the flow. The main result is the explicit relation between the referential gradient and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 J. K. Edmondson

Graphene, dubbed as a two-dimensional material represents the topological concept of "surface" embedded in a three-dimensional space. This regard enables to employ existing theories/tools in topology to understand different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Hadi Arjmandi-Tash , Alexander Kloosterman , Gregory F. Schneider

This study proposes a novel topology optimization method for unsteady fluid flows induced by actively moving rigid bodies. The key idea of the proposed method is to decouple the design and analysis domains by using separate grids. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Yuta Tanabe , Kentaro Yaji , Kuniharu Ushijima

We consider issues associated with the Lagrangian characterisation of flow structures arising in aperiodically time-dependent vector fields that are only known on a finite time interval. A major motivation for the consideration of this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 Michal Branicki , Stephen Wiggins

We consider dynamics driven by interaction energies on graphs. We introduce graph analogues of the continuum nonlocal-interaction equation and interpret them as gradient flows with respect to a graph Wasserstein distance. The particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Antonio Esposito , Francesco S. Patacchini , André Schlichting , Dejan Slepčev

This manuscript introduces novel approaches to three phenomena. First, we extend the algebraic formulation of kinetic theory within the contact framework by making explicit the gauge freedom, thereby obtaining a formulation in which the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Begüm Ateşli , Oğul Esen , Miroslav Grmela , Michal Pavelka

We introduce the notion of Fermi flow for hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds. It turns out that this is a powerful tool to study the geometry of distance surfaces about a given initial hypersurface. Some of the results in this paper are…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Knut Smoczyk

Urban wind flow modeling and simulation play an important role in air quality assessment and sustainable city planning. A key challenge for modeling and simulation is handling the complex geometries of the urban landscape. Low order models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Francisco Giral , Álvaro Manzano , Ignacio Gómez , Petros Koumoutsakos , Soledad Le Clainche