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Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

The solution of the Langevin equation of an anisotropic fluid [Colmenares P. J; L\'opez F. and Olivares-Rivas W., Phys. Rev E. 2009, 80061123] allowed the evaluation of the position dependent perpendicular and parallel diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-08 Wilmer Olivares-Rivas , Pedro J. Colmenares

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 study two schemes for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with space- and time-dependent forcing in one space dimension. The first scheme is continuous in time and is discretized in space using a piecewise-linear Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

An inverse problem to determine a space-dependent factor in a semilinear time-fractional diffusion equation is considered. Additional data are given in the form of an integral with the Borel measure over the time. Uniqueness of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Jaan Janno , Kairi Kasemets

This paper establishes explicit solutions for fractional diffusion problems on bounded domains. It also gives stochastic solutions, in terms of Markov processes time-changed by an inverse stable subordinator whose index equals the order of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Boris Baeumer , Tomasz Luks , Mark M. Meerschaert

The work is devoted to the study of the inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of a nonlinear subdiffusion equation with a Caputo derivative with respect to time. Nonlinearity of the equation means that the right-hand side of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 R. R. Ashurov , O. T. Mukhiddinova

This paper explores the forward and inverse problems for a fractional subdiffusion equation characterized by time-dependent diffusion and reaction coefficients. Initially, the forward problem is examined, and its unique solvability is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Ravshan Ashurov , Elbek Husanov

A Walsh diffusion on Euclidean space moves along each ray from the origin, as a solution to a stochastic differential equation with certain drift and diffusion coefficients, as long as it stays away from the origin. As it hits the origin,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Tomoyuki Ichiba , Andrey Sarantsev

We consider an overdamped run-and-tumble particle in two dimensions, with self propulsion in an orientation that stochastically rotates by 90 degrees at a constant rate, clockwise or counter-clockwise with equal probabilities. In addition,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-18 Naftali R. Smith , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We present a simulation algorithm that accurately propagates a molecule pair using large time steps without the need to invoke the full exact analytical solutions of the Smoluchowski diffusion equation. Because the proposed method only uses…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-24 Thorsten Prüstel , Martin Meier-Schellersheim

Diffusion behavior of Brownian particles in confined spaces was studied for the displacements notably shorter than the confinement size. The confinements, resembling structure of porous solids, were modeled using a spatially-varying…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-24 Daniel Schneider , Rustem Valiullin , Nail Fatkullin

We consider the pointwise decay of solutions to wave-type equations in two model singular settings. Our main result is a form of Price's law for solutions of the massless Dirac-Coulomb system in (3+1)-dimensions. Using identical techniques,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Dean Baskin , Jesse Gell-Redman , Jeremy L. Marzuola

This article is concerned with the inverse problem on determining the temporal component of the source term in a coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations by single point observation. Under a non-degeneracy condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohamed BenSalah , Yikan Liu

In this paper, we numerically address the inverse problem of identifying a time-dependent coefficient in the time-fractional diffusion equation. An a priori estimate is established to ensure uniqueness and stability of the solution. A fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Arshyn Altybay

The distribution of exit times is computed for a Brownian particle in spherically symmetric two- dimensional domains (disks, angular sectors, annuli) and in rectangles that contain an exit on their boundary. The governing partial…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-09-29 J. -F. Rupprecht , O. Bénichou , D. S. Grebenkov , R. Voituriez

We consider the approach to self-similarity (or dynamical scaling) in Smoluchowski's coagulation equations for the solvable kernels K(x,y)=2, x+y and xy. We prove the uniform convergence of densities to the self-similar solution with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Govind Menon , Robert L. Pego

We demonstrate an approach to solving the coagulation equation that involves using a finite number of moments of the particle size distribution. This approach is particularly useful when only general properties of the distribution, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul R. Estrada , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

We calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential energy landscape $U(x)$. The PDF is found by solving the corresponding Smoluchowski diffusion equation. We derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Matan Sivan , Oded Farago

The paper outlines an exact combinatorial approach to finite coagulating systems. In this approach, cluster sizes and time are discrete, and the binary aggregation alone governs the time evolution of the systems. By considering the growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-21 Agata Fronczak , Anna Chmiel , Piotr Fronczak