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In this paper, we study a numerical approximation for a class of stationary states for reaction-diffusion system with m densities having disjoint support, which are governed by a minimization problem. We use quantitative properties of both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-09 Avetik Arakelyan , Farid Bozorgnia

In this work, we propose novel discretizations of the spectral fractional Laplacian on bounded domains based on the integral formulation of the operator via the heat-semigroup formalism. Specifically, we combine suitable quadrature formulas…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Nicole Cusimano , Félix del Teso , Luca Gerardo-Giorda , Gianni Pagnini

The study of fractional order differential operators is receiving renewed attention in many scientific fields. In order to accommodate researchers doing work in these areas, there is a need for highly scalable numerical methods for solving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Max Carlson , Robert M. Kirby , Hari Sundar

Nowadays, fractional differential equations are a well established tool to model phenomena from the real world. Since the analytical solution is rarely available, there is a great effort in constructing efficient numerical methods for their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Enza Pellegrino , Laura Pezza , Francesca Pitolli

In this article we investigate the solution of the steady-state fractional diffusion equation on a bounded domain in $\real^{1}$. From an analysis of the underlying model problem, we postulate that the fractional diffusion operator in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-02 V. J. Ervin , N. Heuer , J. P. Roop

We consider the spectral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and study a basic linear problem involving this operator and singular forcing. In two dimensions, we introduce an appropriate weak formulation in fractional Sobolev…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

To achieve efficient and accurate long-time integration, we propose a fast, accurate, and stable high-order numerical method for solving fractional-in-space reaction-diffusion equations. The proposed method is explicit in nature and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Almushaira Mustafa , Harish Bhatt

Motivated by experimental studies on the anomalous diffusion of biological populations, we introduce a nonlocal differential operator which can be interpreted as the spectral square root of the Laplacian in bounded domains with Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-03 Eugenio Montefusco , Benedetta Pellacci , Gianmaria Verzini

In this paper, we present a numerical solution to an ordinary differential equation of a fractional order in one-dimensional space. The solution to this equation can describe a steady state of the process of anomalous diffusion. The process…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Mariusz Ciesielski , Jacek Leszczynski

We introduce a novel monotone discretization method for addressing obstacle problems involving the integral fractional Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions over bounded Lipschitz domains. This problem is prevalent in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Rubing Han , Shuonan Wu , Hao Zhou

This paper deals with the investigation of a closed form solution of a generalized fractional reaction-diffusion equation. The solution of the proposed problem is developed in a compact form in terms of the H-function by the application of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 R. K. Saxena , A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

We consider the fractional elliptic problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a bounded and convex domain $D$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$, with $d \geq 2$. In this paper, we perform a stochastic gradient descent algorithm that approximates the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Nicolás Valenzuela

Reactio-nonlocal diffusion equations model nonlocal transport and anomalous diffusion by replacing the Laplacian with a fractional power, capturing diffusion mechanisms beyond Brownian motion. We primarily study the semilinear problem \[…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Pu Yuan , Paul A. Zegeling

This paper mainly investigates the analytic solutions for the approximation of $p$-Laplacian problem. Through an approximation mechanism, we convert the nonlinear partial differential equation with Dirichlet boundary into a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Xiaojun Lu , Xiaofen Lv

In arXiv:2305.03945 [math.NA], a first-order optimization algorithm has been introduced to solve time-implicit schemes of reaction-diffusion equations. In this research, we conduct theoretical studies on this first-order algorithm equipped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Shu Liu , Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

In this paper we propose a method to compute the solution to the fractional diffusion equation on directed networks, which can be expressed in terms of the graph Laplacian $L$ as a product $f(L^T) \boldsymbol{b}$, where $f$ is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Michele Benzi , Igor Simunec

Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are in ubiquitous, very effective use to model diffusion processes. However, there are many applications (e.g., such as in hydrology, animal foraging, biology, and light diffusion just do name…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Shiping Zhou , Yanzhi Zhang , Max Gunzburger

A fourth-order compact scheme is proposed for a fourth-order subdiffusion equation with the first Dirichlet boundary conditions. The fourth-order problem is firstly reduced into a couple of spatially second-order system and we use an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Jialing Zhong , Hong-lin Liao , Bingquan Ji , Luming Zhang

In this note, a numerical method based on finite differences to solve a class of nonlinear advection-diffusion fractional differential equation is proposed. The fractional operator considered here is the fractional Riemann-Liouville…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Jocemar Q. Chagas , Giuliano G. La Guardia , Ervin K. Lenzi

We study a discretization technique for the parabolic fractional obstacle problem in bounded domains. The fractional Laplacian is realized as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a nonuniformly elliptic equation posed on a semi-infinite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado