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Partial differential equations (PDEs) are among the most universal and parsimonious descriptions of natural physical laws, capturing a rich variety of phenomenology and multi-scale physics in a compact and symbolic representation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

Equations governing physico-chemical processes are usually known at microscopic spatial scales, yet one suspects that there exist equations, e.g. in the form of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), that can explain the system evolution at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-31 Hassan Arbabi , Ioannis Kevrekidis

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is challenging because of the need to resolve spatiotemporal features over wide length and timescales. Often, it is computationally intractable to resolve the finest features…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-22 Yohai Bar-Sinai , Stephan Hoyer , Jason Hickey , Michael P. Brenner

The behavior of a surface energy $\mathcal F(E,u)$, where $E$ is a set of finite perimeter and $u\in L^1(\partial^* E, \mathbb R_+)$ is studied. These energies have been recently considered in the context of materials science to derive a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Marco Caroccia , Riccardo Cristoferi , Laurent Dietrich

This paper studies a longitudinal shape transformation model in which shapes are deformed in response to an internal growth potential that evolves according to an advection reaction diffusion process. This model extends prior works that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Dai-Ni Hsieh , Sylvain Arguillère , Nicolas Charon , Laurent Younes

The machine learning methods for data-driven identification of partial differential equations (PDEs) are typically defined for a given number of spatial dimensions and a choice of coordinates the data have been collected in. This dependence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Trung V. Phan , George A. Kevrekidis , Soledad Villar , Yannis G. Kevrekidis , Juan M. Bello-Rivas

Elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with discontinuous diffusion coefficients occur in application domains such as diffusions through porous media, electro-magnetic field propagation on heterogeneous media, and diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Andrea Bonito , Ronald A. DeVore , Ricardo H. Nochetto

In this paper we would like give a short review of our recent works and current investigation in modeling of solid film surfaces growth based on computer Monte Carlo simulations. We also discuss effect of some simplification in growth rules…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 K. Malarz

Models of adhesion of extended particles on linear and planar substrates are of interest in interpreting surface deposition in colloid, polymer, and certain biological systems. An introduction is presented to recent theoretical advances in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-03 Vladimir Privman

Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) describe phenomena ranging from turbulence and epidemics to quantum mechanics and financial markets. Despite recent advances in computational science, solving such PDEs for real-world applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Lothar Heimbach , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Petr Karnakov , Francis J. Alexander , Petros Koumoutsakos

Mathematical models describing the spatial spreading and invasion of populations of biological cells are often developed in a continuum modelling framework using reaction-diffusion equations. While continuum models based on linear diffusion…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2024-01-23 Matthew J Simpson , Keeley M Murphy , Scott W McCue , Pascal R Buenzli

We introduce a general, analytical framework to express and to approximate partial differential equations (PDEs) numerically on graphs and networks of surfaces---generalized by the term hypergraphs. To this end, we consider PDEs on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Andreas Rupp , Markus Gahn , Guido Kanschat

Spatial reaction-diffusion models have been employed to describe many emergent phenomena in biological systems. The modelling technique most commonly adopted in the literature implements systems of partial differential equations (PDEs),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-05 Christian A. Yates , Mark B. Flegg

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lilian Welschinger , Yilin Liu , Zican Wang , Niloy Mitra

For a parabolic surface partial differential equation coupled to surface evolution, convergence of the spatial semidiscretization is studied in this paper. The velocity of the evolving surface is not given explicitly, but depends on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich , Christian Andreas Power Guerra

Multiscale partial differential equations (PDEs) arise in various applications, and several schemes have been developed to solve them efficiently. Homogenization theory is a powerful methodology that eliminates the small-scale dependence,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Nikola Kovachki , Aakila Rajan , Andrew M. Stuart , Margaret Trautner

A discussion of epitaxial growth is presented for those situations (OMVPE, CBE, ALE, MOMBE, GSMBE, etc.) when the kinetics of surface processes associated with molecular precursors may be rate limiting. Emphasis is placed on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-11 A. Zangwill , D. D. Vvedensky

In this communication we introduce a pair of coupled continuum equations to model overlayer growth with evaporation-accretion due to thermal or mechanical agitations of the substrate. We gain insight into the dynamics of growth via one-loop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ain-ul Huda , Omjyoti Dutta , Abhijit Mookerjee

In the past many papers have appeared which simulated surface growth with different growth models. The results showed that, if models differed only slightly in their `growth' rules, the resulting surfaces may belong to different…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. E. Hagston , H. Ketterl

A stochastic partial differential equation along the lines of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation is introduced for the evolution of a growing interface in a radial geometry. Regular polygon solutions as well as radially symmetric solutions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. T. Batchelor , B. I. Henry , S. D. Watt