We are concerned with deriving sharp exponential decay estimates (i.e. with maximum rate and minimum multiplicative constant) for linear, hypocoercive evolution equations. Using a modal decomposition of the model allows to assemble a Lyapunov functional using Lyapunov matrix inequalities for each Fourier mode.
We shall illustrate the approach on the 1D Goldstein-Taylor model, a2-velocity transport-relaxation equation. On the torus the lowest Fourier modes determine the spectral gap of the whole equation in $L^{2}$. By contrast, on the whole real line the Goldstein-Taylor model does not have a spectral gap, since the decay rate of the Fourier modes approaches zero in the small mode limit. Hence, the decay is reduced to algebraic.
In the final part of the talk we consider the Goldstein-Taylor model with non-constant relaxation rate, which is hence not amenable to a modal decomposition. In this case we construct a Lyapunov functional of pseudodifferential nature, one that is motivated by the modal analysis in the constant case.The robustness of this approach is illustrated on a multi-velocity GoldsteinTaylor model, yielding explicit rates of convergence to the equilibrium.
This is joint work with J. Dolbeault, A. Einav, C. Schmeiser, B. Signorello, and T. Wöhrer.[-]

At the individual scale, bacteria as E. coli move by performing so-called run-and-tumble movements. This means that they alternate a jump (run phase) followed by fast re-organization phase (tumble) in which they decide of a new direction for run. For this reason, the population is described by a kinetic-Botlzmann equation of scattering type. Nonlinearity occurs when one takes into account chemotaxis, the release by the individual cells of a chemical in the environment and response by the population.

These models can explain experimental observations, fit precise measurements and sustain various scales. They also allow to derive, in the diffusion limit, macroscopic models (at the population scale), as the Flux-Limited Keller-Segel system, in opposition to the traditional Keller-Segel system, this model can sustain robust traveling bands as observed in Adler's famous experiment.

Furthermore, the modulation of the tumbles, can be understood using intracellular molecular pathways. Then, the kinetic-Boltzmann equation can be derived with a fast reaction scale. Long runs at the individual scale and abnormal diffusion at the population scale, can also be derived mathematically.[-]

Leveraging the existence of a hidden low-rank structure hinted by the diffusive limit, in this work, we design and test an angular space reduced order model for the linear radiative transfer equation based on reduced basis methods (RBMs). Our algorithm is built upon a high-fidelity solver employing the discrete ordinates method in the angular space, an upwind discontinuous Galerkin method for the physical space, with an efficient synthetic accelerated source iteration for the resulting linear system. Strategies are particularly proposed to tackle the challenges associated with the scattering operator within the RBM framework.
This is a joint work with Z.Peng, Y. Chen, and Y. Cheng.[-]

This talk introduces, in a simplified setting, a novel commutator method to obtain averaging lemma estimates. Averaging lemmas are a type regularizing effect on averages in velocity of solutions to kinetic equations. We introduce a new bilinear approach that naturally leads to velocity averages in $L^{2}\left ( \left [ 0,T \right ],H_{x}^{s} \right )$. The new method outperforms classical averaging lemma results when the right-hand side of the kinetic equation has enough integrability. It also allows a perturbative approach to averaging lemmas which provides, for the first time, explicit regularity results for non-homogeneous velocity fluxes.[-]

Quantized vortices have been experimentally observed in type-II superconductors, superfluids, nonlinear optics, etc. In this talk, I will review different mathematical equations for modeling quantized vortices in superfluidity and superconductivity, including the nonlinear Schrödinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation, Ginzburg-Landau equation, nonlinear wave equation, etc. Asymptotic approximations on single quantized vortex state and the reduced dynamic laws for quantized vortex interaction are reviewed and solved approximately in several cases. Collective dynamics of quantized vortex interaction based on the reduced dynamic laws are presented. Extension to bounded domains with different boundary conditions are discussed.[-]

This talk introduces, in a simplified setting, a novel commutator method to obtain averaging lemma estimates. Averaging lemmas are a type regularizing effect on averages in velocity of solutions to kinetic equations. We introduce a new bilinear approach that naturally leads to velocity averages in $L^{2}\left ( \left [ 0,T \right ],H_{x}^{s} \right )$. The new method outperforms classical averaging lemma results when the right-hand side of the kinetic equation has enough integrability. It also allows a perturbative approach to averaging lemmas which provides, for the first time, explicit regularity results for non-homogeneous velocity fluxes.[-]

This talk introduces, in a simplified setting, a novel commutator method to obtain averaging lemma estimates. Averaging lemmas are a type regularizing effect on averages in velocity of solutions to kinetic equations. We introduce a new bilinear approach that naturally leads to velocity averages in $L^{2}\left ( \left [ 0,T \right ],H_{x}^{s} \right )$. The new method outperforms classical averaging lemma results when the right-hand side of the kinetic equation has enough integrability. It also allows a perturbative approach to averaging lemmas which provides, for the first time, explicit regularity results for non-homogeneous velocity fluxes.[-]