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We study the quantum thermal transport of elastic excitations through a two-dimensional elastic waveguide between two thermal reservoirs. We solve the classical Kirchhoff-Love equation for rectangular wires and explore the dispersion…

We obtain new exact classes of solutions for the nonlinear fractional Fokker-Planck-like equation partial_t rho = partial_x{D(x) partial^{mu -1}_x rho^{nu} - F(x) rho} by considering a diffusion coefficient D = D|x|^{-theta} (theta in R and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. K. Lenzi , L. C. Malacarne , R. S. Mendes , I. T. Pedron

Ballistic phonon effects, arising on length scales comparable to the mean-free-path, result in non-diffusive heat flow and alter the thermal properties of materials. Simple theoretical models that accurately capture non-diffusive transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Daniel Abarbanel , Jesse Maassen

We consider classical solutions to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation on a bounded domain $\mathcal O \subset~\mathbb{R}^d$ in position, and we obtain a probabilistic representation of the solutions using the Langevin diffusion process with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Tony Lelièvre , Mouad Ramil , Julien Reygner

The thermal properties of anisotropic crystals are of both fundamental and practical interest, but transport phenomena in anisotropic materials such as graphite remain poorly understood because solutions of the Boltzmann equation often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. J. Minnich

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation for subdiffusion in time-dependent force fields is derived from the underlying continuous time random walk. Its limitations are discussed and it is then applied to the study of subdiffusion under the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-02 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

We present a method how to estimate from experimental data of a turbulent velocity field the drift and the diffusion coefficient of a Fokker-Planck equation. It is shown that solutions of this Fokker-Planck equation reproduce with high…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 Ch. Renner , B. Reisner , St. Lück , J. Peinke , R. Friedrich

Heat transport at nanoscales in semiconductors is investigated with a statistical method. The Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE) which characterize phonons motion and interaction within the crystal lattice has been simulated with a Monte…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 David Lacroix , Karl Joulain

In inhomogeneous environments, the correct expression of the diffusive flux is often not given by the Fick's law $\Gamma = - D \nabla n $. The most general hydrodynamic equation modelling diffusion is indeed the Fokker-Planck Equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-03-18 F. Sattin

It is long known that the Fokker-Planck equation with prescribed constant coefficients of diffusion and linear friction describes the ensemble average of the stochastic evolutions in velocity space of a Brownian test particle immersed in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael Kiessling , Carlo Lancellotti

We investigate the effects of relatively rapid variations of the boundaries of an overmoded cavity on the stochastic properties of its interior acoustic or electromagnetic field. For quasi-static variations, this field can be represented as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. R. Arnaut

Fractional diffusion equations imply non-Gaussian distributions that generalise the standard diffusive process. Recent advances in fractional calculus lead to a class of new fractional operators defined by non-singular memory kernels,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 M. A. F. dos Santos , Ignacio S. Gomez

We propose fractional Fokker-Planck equation for the kinetic description of relaxation and superdiffusion processes in constant magnetic and random electric fields. We assume that the random electric field acting on a test charged particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Chechkin , V. Gonchar , M. Szydlowski

One obtains a probabilistic representation for the entropic generalized solutions to a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation in $\mathbb R^d$ with multivalued nonlinear diffusion term as density probabilities of solutions to a nonlinear…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Viorel Barbu , Michael Röckner

The diffusion forecasting is a nonparametric approach that provably solves the Fokker-Planck PDE corresponding to It\^o diffusion without knowing the underlying equation. The key idea of this method is to approximate the solution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 John Harlim , Haizhao Yang

This paper develops a modified version of the Boltzmann equation for micro-scale particulate flow with capture and diffusion that describes the colloidal-suspension-nano transport in porous media. An equivalent sink term is introduced into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-23 Oleg Dinariev , Afonso Rego , Pavel Bedrikovetsky

We study the diffusive dynamics of a Brownian particle in proximity of a flat surface under non-equilibrium conditions, which are created by an anisotropic thermal environment with different temperatures being active along distinct spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Stefano Bo , Ralf Eichhorn

In this paper we focus on strong solutions of some heat-like problems with a non-local derivative in time induced by a Bernstein function and an elliptic operator given by the generator or the Fokker-Planck operator of a Pearson diffusion.…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Giacomo Ascione , Nikolai Leonenko , Enrica Pirozzi

Fast and accurate predictions of the spatiotemporal distributions of temperature are crucial to the multi-scale thermal management and safe operation of microelectronic devices. To realize it, an efficient semi-implicit Lax-Wendroff kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Shuang Peng , Songze Chen , Hong Liang , Chuang Zhang

The interaction of charged particles, moving in a uniform magnetic field, with a plane-polarized gravitational wave is considered using the Fokker-Planck- Kolmogorov (FPK) approach. By using a stochasticity criterion, we determine the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Anastasiadis , K. Kleidis , H. Varvoglis