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Fractional diffusion equations are widely used to describe anomalous diffusion processes where the characteristic displacement scales as a power of time. For processes lacking such scaling the corresponding description may be given by…

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Computing numerical solutions to fractional differential equations can be computationally intensive due to the effect of non-local derivatives in which all previous time points contribute to the current iteration. In general, numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Christopher L. MacDonald , Nirupama Bhattacharya , Brian P. Sprouse , Gabriel A. Silva

Fractals and multifractals and their associated scaling laws provide a quantification of the complexity of a variety of scale invariant complex systems. Here, we focus on lattice multifractals which exhibit complex exponents associated with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-14 W. -X. Zhou , D. Sornette

In recent works it has been demonstrated that using an appropriate rescaling, linear Boltzmann-type equations give rise to a scalar fractional diffusion equation in the limit of a small mean free path. The equilibrium distributions are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Sabine Hittmeir , Sara Merino-Aceituno

We calculate the lattice dispersion relation for three dimensional simulations of scalar fields. We argue that the mode frequency of scalar fields on the lattice should not be treated as a function of the magnitude of its wavevector but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-18 Nikitas Stamatopoulos

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 establish asymptotic diffusion limits of the non-classical transport equation derived in [E. W. Larsen, A generalized Boltzmann equation for non-classical particle transport, Joint international topical meeting on mathematics &…

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Equations built on fractional derivatives prove to be a powerful tool in the description of complex systems when the effects of singularity, fractal supports, and long-range dependence play a role. In this paper, we advocate an application…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander V. Milovanov , Jens J. Rasmussen

Some fractional and anomalous diffusions are driven by equations involving fractional derivatives in both time and space. Such diffusions are processes with randomly varying times. In representing the solutions to those diffusions, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-05 Mirko D'Ovidio

We investigate the fractional diffusion limit of a Linear Boltzmann equation with heavy-tailed velocity equilibrium in a half-space with Maxwell boundary conditions. We derive a new confined version of the fractional Laplacian and show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Ludovic Cesbron

Levy walks define a fundamental concept in random walk theory which allows one to model diffusive spreading that is faster than Brownian motion. They have many applications across different disciplines. However, so far the derivation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-08 J. P. Taylor-King , R. Klages , S. Fedotov , R. A. Van Gorder

We develop a general framework for finding error estimates for convection-diffusion equations with nonlocal, nonlinear, and possibly degenerate diffusion terms. The equations are nonlocal because they involve fractional diffusion operators…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Nathaël Alibaud , Simone Cifani , Espen R. Jakobsen

Fractional derivatives can be used to model time delays in a diffusion process. When the order of the fractional derivative is distributed over the unit interval, it is useful for modeling a mixture of delay sources. In some special cases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jebessa B. Mijena , Erkan Nane

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

Zolotarev proved a duality result that relates stable densities with different indices. In this paper, we show how Zolotarev duality leads to some interesting results on fractional diffusion. Fractional diffusion equations employ fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-26 Boris Baeumer , Mark M. Meerschaert , Erkan Nane

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

In the present Short Note an idea is proposed to explain the emergence and the observation of processes in complex media that are driven by fractional non-Markovian master equations. Particle trajectories are assumed to be solely Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gianni Pagnini

This paper is devoted to the hydrodynamic limit for the linear Boltzmann equation, in the case of a heavy tail equilibrium and a cross section which depends on the space variable and which degenerates for large velocities, without symmetry…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Dahmane Dechicha

This paper is devoted to describing a linear diffusion problem involving fractional-in-time derivatives and self-adjoint integro-differential space operators posed in bounded domains. One main concern of our paper is to deal with singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Hardy Chan , Juan Luis Vázquez , David Gómez-Castro

Fractional calculus is an effective tool in incorporating the effects of non-locality and memory into physical models. In this regard, successful applications exist rang- ing from signal processing to anomalous diffusion and quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 S. S. Bayin , J. P. Krisch