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We discuss the probability distribution of relative speed $\Delta V$ of inertial particles suspended in a highly turbulent gas when the Stokes numbers, a dimensionless measure of their inertia, is large. We identify a mechanism giving rise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson , V. Uski

Annihilation processes, where the reacting particles are influenced by some external advective field, are one of the simplest examples of nonlinear statistical systems. This type of processes can be observed in miscellaneous chemical,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michal Hnatič , Juha Honkonen , Tomáš Lučivjanský

A global existence theorem on weak solutions is shown for the continuous coagulation equation with collisional breakage under certain classes of unbounded collision kernels and distribution functions. This model describes the dynamics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Prasanta Kumar Barik , Ankik Kumar Giri

We study the problem of sampling from a probability distribution on $\mathbb R^p$ defined via a convex and smooth potential function. We consider a continuous-time diffusion-type process, termed Penalized Langevin dynamics (PLD), the drift…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Avetik Karagulyan , Arnak S. Dalalyan

Processes involving bursts of activity separated by quiescent periods occur across diverse systems and scales. In human dynamics, these phenomena have been described by power-law inter-event time distributions, $P(t)\sim t^{-\alpha}$, with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 Morten Møller , Philipp Rahe , Sadegh Ghaderzadeh , Elena Besley , Philip Moriarty

In a recent publication [PRL {\bf 81}, 1142 (1998)] it was argued that a randomly forced particle which collides inelastically with a boundary can undergo inelastic collapse and come to rest in a finite time. Here we discuss the survival…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael R. Swift , Alan J. Bray

We calculate the efficiency of a rejection-free dynamic Monte Carlo method for $d$-dimensional off-lattice homogeneous particles interacting through a repulsive power-law potential $r^{-p}$. Theoretically we find the algorithmic efficiency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marta L. Guerra , M. A. Novotny , Hiroshi Watanabe , Nobuyasu Ito

The adhesive dynamics of a one-dimensional aggregating gas of point particles is rigorously described. The infinite hierarchy of kinetic equations for the distributions of clusters of nearest neighbours is shown to be equivalent to a system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Frachebourg , Ph. A. Martin , ; J. Piasecki

Recently, the problem of boundary stabilization and estimation for unstable linear constant-coefficient reaction-diffusion equation on n-balls (in particular, disks and spheres) has been solved by means of the backstepping method. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Rafael Vazquez , Jing Zhang , Jie Qi , Miroslav Krstic

Particle acceleration in collisionless plasma systems is a central question in astroplasma and astroparticle physics. The structure of the acceleration regions, electron-ion energy equilibration, preacceleration of particles at shocks to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Martin Pohl , Masahiro Hoshino , Jacek Niemiec

At time zero, there are $N$ identical point particles in the line (1D) which are characterized by their positions and velocities. Both values are given randomly and independently from each other, with arbitrary probability densities. Each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-22 Daniel Fraiman

We characterize a transition from normal to ballistic diffusion in a bouncing ball dynamics. The system is composed of a particle, or an ensemble of non-interacting particles, experiencing elastic collisions with a heavy and periodically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 André L. P. Livorati , Tiago Kroetz , Carl P. Dettmann , Iberê L. Caldas , Edson D. Leonel

We study a two-dimensional granular system where external driving force is applied to each particle in the system in such a way that the system is driven into a steady state by balancing the energy input and the dissipation due to inelastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gongwen Peng , Takao Ohta

In this paper we study the randomized non-autonomous complete linear differential equation. The diffusion coefficient and the source term in the differential equation are assumed to be stochastic processes and the initial condition is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-13 J. Catatayud , J. -C. Cortes , M. Jornet

The dispersion of inertial particles continuously emitted from a point source is analytically investigated in the limit of small inertia. Our focus is on the evolution equation of the particle joint probability density function p(x,v,t), x…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-06-01 Marco Martins Afonso , Andrea Mazzino

This paper deals with the problem of simulating dense dispersed systems composed by large numbers of particles undergoing ballistic aggregation. The most classical approaches for dealing with such problems are represented by the so-called…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Pierre Degond , Giacomo Dimarco , Marina Ferreira , Sophie Hecht

We consider a general class of stochastic optimal control problems, where the state process lives in a real separable Hilbert space and is driven by a cylindrical Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure; no special structure is imposed…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Elena Bandini , Fulvia Confortola , Andrea Cosso

The horizontal dynamics of a bouncing ball interacting with an irregular surface is investigated and is found to demonstrate behavior analogous to a random walk. Its stochastic character is substantiated by the calculation of a permutation…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-15 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

We study the $2\rightarrow1$ process of electron-positron pair annihilation to a single photon in a plane-wave background. The probability of the process in a pulsed plane wave is presented, and a locally constant field approximation is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 S. Tang , A. Ilderton , B. King

We consider the time evolution of the supercritical Galton-Watson model of branching particles with extra parameter (mass). In the moment of the division the mass of the particle (which is growing linearly after the birth) is divided in…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Gregory Derfel , Yaqin Feng , Stanislav Molchanov