On Fokker-Planck Equations with In- and Outflow of Mass

2018/12/17 by Burger, Martin, Humpert, Ina, Pietschmann, Jan-Frederik · 1 citation
#Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.07064

Abstract

Motivated by modeling transport processes in the growth of neurons, we present results on (nonlinear) Fokker-Planck equations where the total mass is not conserved. This is either due to in- and outflow boundary conditions or to spatially distributed reaction terms. We are able to prove exponential decay towards equilibrium using entropy methods in several situations. As there is no conservation of mass it is difficult to exploit the gradient flow structure of the differential operator which renders the analysis more challenging. In particular, classical logarithmic Sobolev inequalities are not applicable any more. Our analytic results are illustrated by extensive numerical studies.

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