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Distribution functions (DFs) for dynamically warm thin stellar disks residing in arbitrary axisymmetric potentials are presented which approximately reproduce pre-described surface-density and velocity-dispersion profiles. The functional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Walter Dehnen

One proves the uniqueness of distributional solutions to nonlinear Fokker--Planck equations with monotone diffusion term and derive as a consequence (restricted) uniqueness in law for the corresponding McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Viorel Barbu , Michael Röckner

We present an approach for simulating the collisional evolution of spherical isotropic stellar systems based on the one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation. A novel aspect is that we use the phase volume as the argument of the distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-06 Eugene Vasiliev

In this paper we present a direct perturbative method to solving certain Fokker-Planck equations, which have constant diffusion coefficients and some small parameters in the drift coefficients. The method makes use of the connection between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Choon-Lin Ho , Yan-Min Dai

The time evolution of initially balanced, rapidly rotating models for an isolated disk of highly flattened galaxies of stars is calculated. The method of direct integration of the Newtonian equations of motion of stars over a time span of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evgeny Griv , Michael Gedalin , Edward Liverts , David Eichler , Yehoshua Kimhi , Chi Yuan

We prove stability estimates for the spatially discrete, Galerkin solution of a fractional Fokker-Planck equation, improving on previous results in several respects. Our main goal is to establish that the stability constants are bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-09 William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

We consider a Langevin equation with variable drift and diffusion coefficients separable in time and space and its corresponding Fokker-Planck equation in the Stratonovich approach. From this Fokker-Planck equation we obtain a class of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-06 Kwok Sau Fa

A relativistic diffusion model with cylindrical symmetry, which propagates an initial state based on quantum chromodynamics in time towards a thermal equilibrium limit, is derived from nonequilibrium-statistical considerations: Adapting an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-29 Johannes Hoelck , Georg Wolschin

In this article, we are concerned with the analysis on the numerical reconstruction of the spatial component in the source term of a time-fractional diffusion equation. This ill-posed problem is solved through a stabilized nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Daijun Jiang , Yikan Liu , Dongling Wang

Recently, the fractional Fokker-Planck equations (FFPEs) with multiple internal states are built for the particles undergoing anomalous diffusion with different waiting time distributions for different internal states, which describe the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-06 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng

We present a simple model for the number distribution of maximally star-forming clumps in rotating disk galaxies, at high-$z$ with high gas surface densities. By combining assumptions surrounding marginal stability of disks against…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-01 Matthew E. Orr , Douglas Rennehan

An origin is sought for the ubiquity of cusps, both in computer simulations of halo formation in hierarchical clustering cosmogonies and in observations of galactic nuclei by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The encounters of merging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. W. Evans , J. L. Collett

I utilize the Petrov-Galerkin formulation and develop a new method for solving the unsteady collisionless Boltzmann equation in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. In the first order approximation, the method reduces to a linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mir Abbas Jalali

We provide and describe a library of diffuse stellar radiation fields in spiral galaxies derived using calculations of the transfer of stellar radiation from the main morphological components - disks, thin disks, and bulges - through the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. C. Popescu , R. J. Tuffs

We present a method for constructing dynamical models of stellar systems described by distribution functions and constrained by discrete-kinematic data. We implement various improvements compared to earlier applications of this approach,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Eugene Vasiliev , Anja Feldmeier-Krause , Mattia C. Sormani

This is the first paper of a series of our works on the self-similar orbit-averaged Fokker-Planck (OAFP) equation for distribution function of stars in dense isotropic star clusters. At the late stage of relaxation evolution of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Yuta Ito

We develop a new method to solve the Fokker-Planck or Kolmogorov's forward equation that governs the time evolution of the joint probability density function of a continuous-time stochastic nonlinear system. Numerical solution of this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-16 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

An analytic solution for a Fokker-Planck equation that describes propagation of energetic particles through a scattering medium is obtained. The solution is found in terms of an infinite series of mixed moments of particle distribution. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 M. A. Malkov

A granular gas composed of inelastic hard spheres or disks in the homogeneous cooling state is considered. Some of the particles are labeled and their number density exhibits a time-independent linear profile along a given direction. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Javier Brey , M. J. Ruiz-Montero

We propose a numerical solution for the solution of the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equations associated with stochastic partial differential equations in Hilbert spaces. The method is based on the spectral decomposition of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Francisco J. Delgado-Vences , Franco Flandoli