
Pattern formation, energy landscapes, and scaling laws
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Felix Otto
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Gradient flow and Wasserstein distance
- Felix Otto, Hendrik Weber, and Maria G. Westdickenberg.
Invariant measure of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation: the regime of
small noise and large system size.
submitted to Annals d’IHP.
MPI MIS Preprint 1/2013
- Nicola Gigli and Felix Otto.
Entropic Burgers’ equation via a minimizing movement scheme based on the Wasserstein metric.
Calc. Var. DOI: 10.1007/s00526-012-0515-2 published online 03 April 2012.
MPI MIS Preprint 39/2012 - Felix Otto and Michael Westdickenberg.
Eulerian calculus for the contraction in the Wasserstein distance.
SIAM J. Math. Anal., 37(4):1227-1255 (electronic), 2005.
download (PDF, 359 kbyte) - Felix Otto.
The geometry of dissipative evolution equations: the porous medium equation.
Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 26(1-2):101-174, 2001.
download (PS, 971 kbyte) - Felix Otto.
Dynamics of labyrinthine pattern formation in magnetic fluids: a mean-field theory.
Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 141(1):63-103, 1998.
download (PS, 705 kbyte) - Richard Jordan, David Kinderlehrer, and Felix Otto.
The variational formulation of the Fokker-Planck equation.
SIAM J. Math. Anal., 29(1):1-17 (electronic), 1998.
download (PS, 271 kbyte) - Richard Jordan, David Kinderlehrer, and Felix Otto.
Free energy and the Fokker-Planck equation.
Phys. D, 107(2-4):265-271, 1997.
(for full version see paper above) - Felix Otto.
Double degenerate diffusion equations as steepest descent.
Preprint of the University of Bonn, 1996.
download (PS, 593 kbyte) - Richard Jordan, David Kinderlehrer, and Felix Otto.
The route to stability through Fokker-Planck dynamics.
In Differential equations and applications (Hangzhou, 1996), pages 108-126. Internat. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
Publications
- Micromagnetics
- Superconductors
- Shape Memory Alloys
- Crystal growth
- Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality
- Homogenization
- Fluid dynamics
- Coarsening, Ostwald ripening
- Rheology
- Viscous thin films
- Porous media flow, fingering
- Gradient flow and Wasserstein distance
- Entropy solutions
- Boundary values for scalar conservation laws
- L1-contraction




