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Albeit the past intensive research, the governing equation of anomalous diffusion which is observed for the transport of particles underground is still an open problem. In this paper, as a governing equation, the advection-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Manabu Machida

The behaviour of the solutions of the time-fractional diffusion equation, based on the Caputo derivative, is studied and its dependence on the fractional exponent is analysed. The time-fractional convection-diffusion equation is also solved…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Andy Manapany , Sébastien Fumeron , Malte Henkel

The diffusion equation and its time-fractional counterpart can be obtained via the diffusion limit of continuous-time random walks with exponential and heavy-tailed waiting time distributions. The space dependent variable-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang , Zhuang Xu

Fractional diffusion equations replace the integer-order derivatives in space and time by their fractional-order analogues. They are used in physics to model anomalous diffusion. This paper develops strong solutions of space-time fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Zhen-Qing Chen , Mark M. Meerschaert , Erkan Nane

We show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of a subdiffusive intermittent map is a fractal function of control parameters. A modified continuous time random walk theory yields its coarse functional form and correctly describes a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 N. Korabel , A. V. Chechkin , R. Klages , I. M. Sokolov , V. Yu. Gonchar

Anomalous transport is usually described either by models of continuous time random walks (CTRW) or, otherwise by fractional Fokker-Planck equations (FFPE). The asymptotic relation between properly scaled CTRW and fractional diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-09 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on fractional diffusion equations and related random walk models. The fundamental solutions of these equations can be interpreted as probability densities evolving in time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi

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

The foundations of the fractional diffusion equation are investigated based on coupled and decoupled continuous time random walks (CTRW). For this aim we find an exact solution of the decoupled CTRW, in terms of an infinite sum of stable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eli Barkai

Starting from the model of continuous time random walk, we focus our interest on random walks in which the probability distributions of the waiting times and jumps have fat tails characterized by power laws with exponent between 0 and 1 for…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Rudolf Gorenflo , Entsar A. A. Abdel-Rehim

The fractional diffusion equation is derived from the master equation of continuous-time random walks (CTRWs) via a straightforward application of the Gnedenko-Kolmogorov limit theorem. The Cauchy problem for the fractional diffusion…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-23 Enrico Scalas , Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi , Marco Raberto

In this paper, we treat the Fisher-KPP equation with a Caputo-type time fractional derivative and discuss the propagation speed of the solution. The equation is a mathematical model that describes the processes of sub-diffusion,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Hiroshi Ishii

A fractional reaction-diffusion equation is derived from a continuous time random walk model when the transport is dispersive. The exit from the encounter distance, which is described by the algebraic waiting time distribution of jump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuhiko Seki , Mariusz Wojcik , M. Tachiya

We study the large-time asymptotics of the mean-square displacement for the time-fractional Schrodinger equation in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We define the time-fractional derivative by the Caputo derivative and we consider the initial-value problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Peter D. Hislop , Eric Soccorsi

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 derive the asymptotic first passage time (FPT) distribution for space-dependent variable-order time-fractional diffusion, where the fractional exponent $\alpha(x)$ varies with position. For any sufficiently smooth $\alpha(x)$ on a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Wancheng Li , Daniel S. Han

In this article, the continuous time random walk on the circle is studied. We derive the corresponding generalized master equation and discuss the effects of topology, especially important when Levy flights are allowed. Then, we work out…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan Calvo , B. A. Carreras , R. Sanchez , B. Ph. van Milligen

We propose an extension of the cable equation by introducing a Caputo time fractional derivative. The fundamental solutions of the most common boundary problems are derived analitically via Laplace Transform, and result be written in terms…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Silvia Vitali , Gastone Castellani , Francesco Mainardi

The generalized diffusion equations with fractional order derivatives have shown be quite efficient to describe the diffusion in complex systems, with the advantage of producing exact expressions for the underlying diffusive properties.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-21 Angel A. Tateishi , Haroldo V. Ribeiro , Ervin K. Lenzi

In this paper, we are interested in the study of a problem with fractional derivatives having boundary conditions of integral types. The problem represents a Caputo type advection-diffusion equation where the fractional order derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Saadoune Brahimi , Ahcene Merad , Adem Kilicman
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