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This paper deals with numerical solutions to a partial differential equation of fractional order. Generally this type of equation describes a transition from anomalous diffusion to transport processes. From a phenomenological point of view,…
We consider the partial differential equation $$ u-f={\rm div}\left(u^m\frac{\nabla u}{|\nabla u|}\right) $$ with $f$ nonnegative and bounded and $m\in\mathbb{R}$. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions for both the Dirichlet…
In this work we obtain a Liouville theorem for positive, bounded solutions of the equation $$ (-\Delta)^s u= h(x_N)f(u) \quad \hbox{in }\mathbb{R}^{N} $$ where $(-\Delta)^s$ stands for the fractional Laplacian with $s\in (0,1)$, and the…
In this paper, we discuss existence and finite speed of propagation for the solutions to an initial-boundary value problem for a family of fractional thin-film equations in a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The nonlocal operator we…
In this article we study inverse source problems for time-fractional diffusion equations from \textit{a posteriori} boundary measurement. Using the memory effect of these class of equations, we solve these inverse problems for several class…
We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the Lifshitz--Slyozov equation (a nonlinear transport equation on the half-line), focusing on the case of kinetic rates with unbounded derivative at…
We study the diffusion (or heat) equation on a finite 1-dimensional spatial domain, but we replace one of the boundary conditions with a "nonlocal condition", through which we specify a weighted average of the solution over the spatial…
We consider difference schemes for the time-fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients and nonlocal boundary conditions containing real parameters $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\gamma$. By the method of energy inequalities, for the…
We consider the inverse problem of determining different type of information about a diffusion process, described by ordinary or fractional diffusion equations stated on a bounded domain, like the density of the medium or the velocity field…
There has been considerable recent interest in solving non-local equations of motion which contain an infinite number of derivatives. Here, focusing on inflation, we review how the problem can be reformulated as the question of finding…
This paper discusses finite time extinction for a perturbed fast diffusion equation with dynamic boundary conditions. The fast diffusion equation has the characteristic property of decay, such as the solution decays to zero in a finite…
We study the Dirichlet boundary-value problem of steady-state two-sided variable-coefficient conservative space-fractional diffusion equations. We show that the Galerkin weak formulation, which was proved to be coercive and continuous for a…
A new method is introduced for studying boundary value problems for a class of linear PDEs with {\it variable} coefficients. This method is based on ideas recently introduced by the author for the study of boundary value problems for PDEs…
We study the initial-boundary value problem for a class of diffusion equations with nonmonotone diffusion flux functions, including forward-backward parabolic equations and the gradient flows of nonconvex energy functionals, under the…
We derive an explicit representation of the fundamental solution to the heat equation in a half-space of ${\mathbb R}^N$ with a diffusive dynamical boundary condition, and establish sharp pointwise upper and lower bounds. We also…
In this paper, we study the initial value problem for infinite dimensional fractional non-autonomous reaction-diffusion equations. Applying general time-splitting methods, we prove the existence of solutions globally defined in time using…
In this paper we obtain new estimates of the Hadamard fractional derivatives of a function at its extreme points. The extremum principle is then applied to show that the initial-boundary-value problem for linear and nonlinear…
In this paper, we are concerned with the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem (or initial-boundary value problem) of one-dimensional Keller-Segel model. For the Cauchy problem, we prove that the solutions…
This paper provides the existence and representation of solution to an initial value problem for the general multi-term linear fractional differential equation with generalized Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives and constant…
We consider conservation laws with source terms in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We first prove the existence of a strong trace at the boundary in order to provide a simple formulation of the entropy boundary…