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In this work we study the solutions to some fractional higher-order equations. Special cases in which time-fractional derivatives take integer values are also examined and the explicit solutions are presented. Such solutions can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Mirko D'Ovidio

In this paper, we investigate the solutions for a generalized fractional diffusion equation that extends some known diffusion equations by taking a spatial time-dependent diffusion coefficient and an external force into account, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Long-jin Lv , Jian-Bin Xiao , Lin Zhang

We examine the short and long-time behaviors of time-fractional diffusion equations with variable space-dependent order. More precisely, we describe the time-evolution of the solution to these equations as the time parameter goes either to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Yavar Kian , Diomba Sambou , Eric Soccorsi

In this paper we study $g$-fractional diffusion on bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with absorbing boundary conditions. We show the explicit representation of the solution and then we study the first passage time distribution, showing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-09 L. Angelani , R. Garra

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on generalized diffusion equations (containing derivatives of fractional order in space or/and time) and related random walk models. The fundamental solution (for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-25 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi , Daniele Moretti , Gianni Pagnini , Paolo Paradisi

In the present work, we investigate the potential of fractional derivatives to model atmospheric dispersion of pollutants. We propose simple fractional differential equation models for the steady state spatial distribution of concentration…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 A. G. O. Goulart , M. J. Lazo , J. M. S. Suarez , D. M. Moreira

In a fractional Cauchy problem, the usual first order time derivative is replaced by a fractional derivative. The fractional derivative models time delays in a diffusion process. The order of the fractional derivative can be distributed…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-14 Mark M. Meerschaert , Erkan Nane , Palaniappan Vellaisamy

The partial differential equation of Gaussian diffusion is generalized by using the time-fractional derivative of distributed order between 0 and 1, in both the Riemann-Liouville (R-L) and the Caputo (C) sense. For a general distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Francesco Mainardi , Antonio Mura , Gianni Pagnini , Rudolf Gorenflo

Many physical phenomena occur on domains that grow in time. When the timescales of the phenomena and domain growth are comparable, models must include the dynamics of the domain. A widespread intrinsically slow transport process is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-01 C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann

Modeling of phenomena such as anomalous transport via fractional-order differential equations has been established as an effective alternative to partial differential equations, due to the inherent ability to describe large-scale behavior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Jorge Suzuki , Mamikon Gulian , Mohsen Zayernouri , Marta D'Elia

A distributed order fractional diffusion equation is considered. Distributed order derivatives are fractional derivatives that have been integrated over the order of the derivative within a given range. In this paper sub-diffusive cases are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Naber

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for diffusion equations with multiple fractional time derivatives. We prove the uniqueness in determining a number of fractional time-derivative terms, the orders of the derivatives and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , O. Y. Imanuvilov , Masahiro Yamamoto

Tracer tests in natural porous media sometimes show abnormalities that suggest considering a fractional variant of the Advection Diffusion Equation supplemented by a time derivative of non-integer order. We are describing an inverse method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Boris Maryshev , Alain Cartalade , Christelle Latrille , Marie-Christine Néel

Fractional differential approach to cosmic ray physics problems is discussed. A short review in this field is given, some results are represented, analyzed and criticized. A new model called the bounded anomalous diffusion model is offered.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Vladimir V. Uchaikin , Renat T. Sibatov

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

In this paper we present in one-dimensional space a numerical solution of a partial differential equation of fractional order. This equation describes a process of anomalous diffusion. The process arises from the interactions within the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mariusz Ciesielski , Jacek Leszczynski

The aim of this paper is to numerically solve a diffusion differential problem having time derivative of fractional order. To this end we propose a collocation-Galerkin method that uses the fractional splines as approximating functions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Laura Pezza , Francesca Pitolli

We consider fractional diffusion equations and study the stability of the inverse problem of determining the time-dependent parameter in a source term or a coefficient of zero-th order term from observations of the solution at one point in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Kenichi Fujishiro , Yavar Kian

This study unveils the time-space transforms underlying anomalous diffusion process. Based on this finding, we present the two hypotheses concerning the effect of fractal time-space fabric on physical behaviors and accordingly derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W Chen

When considering fractional diffusion equation as model equation in analyzing anomalous diffusion processes, some important parameters in the model related to orders of the fractional derivatives, are often unknown and difficult to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto