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math.AP2026

Lower Bounds for Advection-Diffusion Equations: An Exploration with AI-Generated Proofs

Chenyang An, Xiaoqian Xu

We establish explicit lower bounds for advection-diffusion equations in three settings: a polynomial bound for inviscid shears with , a uni…

math.PR2026

Accelerating sampling via asymptotic relaxation enhancing flows

Yuanyuan Feng, Lei Li, Jian-Guo Liu +1

In this paper, we accelerate Langevin Monte Carlo sampling from Gibbs measures by adding a large drift that preserves the invariant measure. For warm-start init…

math.AP2025

Data-Driven Parameter Identification for Tumor Growth Models

Liu Liu, Yifei Wang, Qinyu Xu +1

Modeling tumor growth accurately is essential for understanding cancer progression and informing treatment strategies. To estimate the parameters in the tumor growth model describe…

math.AP2025

Sequential Exponential Lower Bounds for the Advection-Diffusion Equation with Shear Flows

Yupei Huang, Xiaoqian Xu

In this paper, we prove that the norm of spatial mean-free solutions to the advection--diffusion equation on with shear drifts satisfies an \emph{exponential l…

math.AP2025

Phase separation for the 2D Cahn-Hilliard equation with a background shear flow

Yu Feng, Yuanyuan Feng, Anna L. Mazzucato +1

We consider the Cahn-Hilliard equation, which models phase separation in binary fluids, on the two-dimen\-sional torus in the presence of advection by a given background shear flow…

math.AP2024

A Three-dimensional tumor growth model and its boundary instability

Jian-Guo Liu, Thomas Witelski, Xiaoqian Xu +1

In this paper, we investigate the tumor instability by employing both analytical and numerical techniques to validate previous results and extend the analytical findings presented…

math.AP2023

Suppression of blow-up in Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system via the Poiseuille flow

Hao Li, Zhaoyin Xiang, Xiaoqian Xu

In this paper, we investigate the two-dimensional Patlak-Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system perturbed around the Poiseuille flow and show that the solutions to thi…

math.AP2023

Existence of weak solutions to -Navier-Stokes equations

Yuanyuan Feng, Lei Li, Jian-Guo Liu +1

We study the existence of weak solutions to the -Navier-Stokes equations with a symmetric -Laplacian on bounded domains. We construct a particular Schauder basis in $W_0^{1,p…

math.AP2022

Dissipation enhancement of cellular flows in general advection diffusion equations

Yu Feng, Xiaoqian Xu

The main contribution of this paper is twofold: (1) Recently, Iyer, Xu, and Zlatoš studied the dissipation enhancement by cellular flows based on standard advection-diffusion equat…

math.AP2022★ 9 cited

Tumor boundary instability induced by nutrient consumption and supply

Yu Feng, Min Tang, Xiaoqian Xu +1

We investigate the tumor boundary instability induced by nutrient consumption and supply based on a Hele-Shaw model derived from taking the incompressible limit of a cell density m…

math.AP2021

Global existence of a non-local semilinear parabolic equation with advection and applications to shear flow

Yu Feng, Bingyang Hu, Xiaoqian Xu +1

In this paper, we consider the following non-local semi-linear parabolic equation with advection: for , \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t+v \cdot \nabla u-…

math.AP2021★ 1 cited

Dissipation enhancement for a degenerated parabolic equation

Yu Feng, Bingyang Hu, Xiaoqian Xu

In this paper, we quantitatively consider the enhanced-dissipation effect of the advection term to the parabolic -Laplacian equations. More precisely, we show the mixing propert…

math.AP2020★ 14 cited

Suppression of epitaxial thin film growth by mixing

Yu Feng, Bingyang Hu, Xiaoqian Xu

We consider following fourth-order parabolic equation with gradient nonlinearity on the two-dimensional torus with and without advection of an incompressible vector field in the ca…

math.AP2019★ 1 cited

Convection-Induced Singularity Suppression in the Keller-Segel and Other Non-linear PDEs

Gautam Iyer, Xiaoqian Xu, Andrej Zlatoš

In this paper we study the effect of the addition of a convective term, and of the resulting increased dissipation rate, on the growth of solutions to a general class of non-linear…

math.CA2017

A note on one-dimensional time fractional ODEs

Yuanyuan Feng, Lei Li, Jian-Guo Liu +1

In this note, we prove or re-prove several important results regarding one dimensional time fractional ODEs following our previous work \cite{fllx17}. Here we use the definition of…

math.CA2017★ 2 cited

Continuous and discrete one dimensional autonomous fractional ODEs

Yuanyuan Feng, Lei Li, Jian-Guo Liu +1

In this paper, we study 1D autonomous fractional ODEs , where is the unknown function and is the generalized Caputo de…

math.AP2016★ 9 cited

Stability of Blow Up for a 1D model of Axisymmetric 3D Euler Equation

Tam Do, Alexander Kiselev, Xiaoqian Xu

The question of the global regularity vs finite time blow up in solutions of the 3D incompressible Euler equation is a major open problem of modern applied analysis. In this paper,…

math.AP2015★ 115 cited

Suppression of chemotactic explosion by mixing

Alexander Kiselev, Xiaoqian Xu

Chemotaxis plays a crucial role in a variety of processes in biology and ecology. In many instances, processes involving chemical attraction take place in fluids. One of the most s…

math.AP2015★ 3 cited

One-dimensional model equations for hyperbolic fluid flow

Tam Do, Vu Hoang, Maria Radosz +1

In this paper we study the singularity formation for two nonlocal 1D active scalar equations, focusing on the hyperbolic flow scenario. Those 1D equations can be regarded as simpli…

math.NA2015★ 1 cited

A locally gradient-preserving reinitialization for level set functions

Lei Li, Xiaoqian Xu, Saverio E. Spagnolie

The level set method commonly requires a reinitialization of the level set function due to interface motion and deformation. We extend the traditional technique for reinitializing…

math.AP2014★ 1 cited

Fast growth of the vorticity gradient in symmetric smooth domains for 2D incompressible ideal flow

Xiaoqian Xu

We construct an initial data for the two-dimensional Euler equation in a bounded smooth symmetric domain such that the gradient of vorticity in grows as a double expon…

math.AP2013★ 84 cited

Lower bounds on the mix norm of passive scalars advected by incompressible enstrophy-constrained flows

Gautam Iyer, Alexander Kiselev, Xiaoqian Xu

Consider a diffusion-free passive scalar being mixed by an incompressible flow on the torus . Our aim is to study how well this scalar can be mixed under an e…