arXiv · 1607.03676
Large scale asymptotics of velocity-jump processes and non-local Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Abstract
We investigate a simple velocity jump process in the regime of large deviation asymptotics. New velocities are taken randomly at a constant, large, rate from a Gaussian distribution with vanishing variance. The Kolmogorov forward equation associated with this process is the linear BGK kinetic transport equation. We derive a new type of Hamilton-Jacobi equation which is nonlocal with respect to the velocity variable. We introduce a suitable notion of viscosity solution, and we prove well-posedness in the viscosity sense. We also prove convergence of the logarithmic transformation towards this limit problem. Furthermore, we identify the variational formulation of the solution by means of an action functional supported on piecewise linear curves. As an application of this theory, we compute the exact rate of acceleration in a kinetic version of the celebrated Fisher-KPP equation in the one-dimensional case.
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Emeric Bouin, Vincent Calvez, Emmanuel Grenier, Grégoire Nadin. 2016-07-13. Large scale asymptotics of velocity-jump processes and non-local Hamilton-Jacobi equations. https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03676
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