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In ecological studies of pattern formation, models of the competitive-diffusion type are generally singularly perturbed, and the numerical approximation of such models is challenging. In this paper, we present finite element discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Xianping Li , Woinshet D. Mergia , Kailash C. Patidar

In contrast with the diffusion equation which smoothens the initial data to $C^\infty$ for $t>0$ (away from the corners/edges of the domain), the subdiffusion equation only exhibits limited spatial regularity. As a result, one generally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Buyang Li , Zongze Yang , Zhi Zhou

We develop a new semi-analytical method for solving multilayer diffusion problems with time-varying external boundary conditions and general internal boundary conditions at the interfaces between adjacent layers. The convergence rate of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Elliot J. Carr , Nathan G. March

A new method that enables easy and convenient discretization of partial differential equations with derivatives of arbitrary real order (so-called fractional derivatives) and delays is presented and illustrated on numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Igor Podlubny , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Tomas Skovranek , YangQuan Chen , Blas M. Vinagre Jara

A numerical method to solve the fractional diffusion equation, which could also be easily extended to many other fractional dynamics equations, is considered. These fractional equations have been proposed in order to describe anomalous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 S. B. Yuste , L. Acedo

Lie group method provides an efficient tool to solve a differential equation. This paper suggests a fractional partner for fractional partial differential equations using a fractional characteristic method. A space-time fractional diffusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Guo-cheng Wu

This article presents a finite element scheme with Newton's method for solving the time-fractional nonlinear diffusion equation. For time discretization, we use the fractional Crank-Nicolson scheme based on backward Euler convolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Dileep Kumar , Sudhakar Chaudhary , V. V. K Srinivas Kumar

In this study, a novel semi-implicit second-order temporal scheme combined with the finite element method for space discretization is proposed to solve the coupled system of infiltration and solute transport in unsaturated porous media. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Nour-eddine Toutlini , Abdelaziz Beljadid , Azzeddine Soulaïmani

The Fractional Diffusion Equation (FDE) is a mathematical model that describes anomalous transport phenomena characterized by non-local and long-range dependencies which deviate from the traditional behavior of diffusion. Solving this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Emmanuel Asante-Asamani , Olaniyi S. Iyiola

The present work provides a critical assessment of numerical solutions of the space-fractional diffusion-advection equation, which is of high significance for applications in various natural sciences. In view of the fact that, in contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-27 Robin Stern , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Tobias Schaefer

We study solution techniques for parabolic equations with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative, the latter being discretized and analyzed in a general Hilbert space setting. The spatial fractional diffusion is realized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

We present a finite element scheme for fractional diffusion problems with varying diffusivity and fractional order. We consider a symmetric integral form of these nonlocal equations defined on general geometries and in arbitrary bounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Wenyu Lei , George Turkiyyah , Omar Knio

The numerical solution of a nonlinear and space-fractional anti-diffusive equation used to model dune morphodynamics is considered. Spatial discretization is effected using a finite element method whereas the Crank-Nicolson scheme is used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Afaf Bouharguane

Fractional kinetic equations employ non-integer calculus to model anomalous relaxation and diffusion in many systems. While this approach is well explored, it so far failed to describe an important class of transport in disordered systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai

We investigate evolution equations for anomalous diffusion employing fractional derivatives in space and time. Linkage between the space-time variables leads to a new type of fractional derivative operator. Fractional diffusion equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej J. Turski , Barbara Atamaniuk , Ewa Turska

In the present article an endeavor is made to solve the variable order fractional diffusion equations using a powerful method viz., Homotopy Analysis method. It is demonstrated how the method can be used while solving approximately two…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Vivek Mishra , S. Das

We construct four variants of space-time finite element discretizations based on linear tensor-product and simplex-type finite elements. The resulting discretizations are continuous in space, and continuous or discontinuous in time. In a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Max von Danwitz , Igor Voulis , Norbert Hosters , Marek Behr

A hydrogeological model for the spread of pollution in an aquifer is considered. The model consists in a convection-diffusion-reaction equation involving the dispersion tensor which depends nonlinearly of the fluid velocity. We introduce an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Éloïse Comte

In this paper, we introduce and analyse a surface finite element discretization of advection-diffusion equations with uncertain coefficients on evolving hypersurfaces. After stating unique solvability of the resulting semi-discrete problem,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ana Djurdjevac , Charles M. Elliott , Ralf Kornhuber , Thomas Ranner

In this study we construct a time-space finite element (FE) scheme and furnish cost-efficient approximations for one-dimensional multi-term time fractional advection diffusion equations on a bounded domain $\Omega$. Firstly, a fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Xiaoqiang Yue , Yehong Xu , Shi Shu , Menghuan Liu , Weiping Bu