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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-21 Hiroki Yagisita

In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness and the long-time asymptotic behavior for the initial-boundary value problem for multi-term time-fractional diffusion equations, where the time differentiation consists of a finite summation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

A new method for the solution of initial-boundary value problems for \textit{linear} and \textit{integrable nonlinear} evolution PDEs in one spatial dimension was introduced by one of the authors in 1997 \cite{F1997}. This approach was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-29 Dionyssios Mantzavinos , Athanassios S. Fokas

Time fractional advection-dispersion equations arise as generalizations of classical integer order advection-dispersion equations and are increasingly used to model fluid flow problems through porous media. In this paper we develop an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Carlos E. Mejía , Alejandro Piedrahita

This paper investigates the initial-boundary value problem for weakly coupled systems of time-fractional subdiffusion equations with spatially and temporally varying coupling coefficients. By combining the energy method with the coercivity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Kazuma Wada

We prove the global strong solvability of a quasilinear initial-boundary value problem with fractional time derivative of order less than one. Such problems arise in mathematical physics in the context of anomalous diffusion and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-06 Rico Zacher

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools with applications in computer vision and scientific machine learning (SciML), where they have been used to solve large-scale probabilistic inverse problems. Traditionally, these…

This work first gives the global existence and optimal decay rates of solutions to the classical Timoshenko system on the framework of Besov spaces. Due to the \textit{non-symmetric} dissipation, the general theory for dissipative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Naofumi Mori , Jiang Xu , Shuichi Kawashima

We consider the Cauchy problem of fractional pseudo-parabolic equation on the whole space $R^n,n\geq 1$. Here, the fractional order $\alpha$ is related to the diffusion-type source term behaving as the usual diffusion term on the high…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Lingyu Jin , Lang Li , Shaomei Fang

We aim at the development and analysis of the numerical schemes for approximately solving the backward diffusion-wave problem, which involves a fractional derivative in time with order $\alpha\in(1,2)$. From terminal observations at two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

We study the asymptotic behaviour near extinction of positive solutions of the Cauchy problem for the fast diffusion equation with a critical exponent. After a suitable rescaling which yields a non--linear Fokker--Planck equation, we find a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Marek Fila , John R. King , Michael Winkler

This paper is concerned with the large-time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem on the two-fluid Euler-Maxwell system with collisions when initial data are around a constant equilibrium state. The main goal is the rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Renjun Duan , Qingqing Liu , Changjiang Zhu

I examine some analytical properties of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion system that has been used to model the propagation of a wildfire. I establish global-in-time existence and uniqueness of bounded mild solutions to the Cauchy problem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 A. George Morgan

In this paper we obtain bounds for the decay rate in the $L^r (\rr^d)$-norm for the solutions to a nonlocal and nolinear evolution equation, namely, $$u_t(x,t) = \int_{\rr^d} K(x,y) |u(y,t)- u(x,t)|^{p-2} (u(y,t)- u(x,t)) \, dy, $$ with $ x…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-12 Liviu I. Ignat , Damián Pinasco , Julio D. Rossi , Angel San Antolin

We construct an explicit solution of the Cauchy initial value problem for certain diffusion-type equations with variable coefficients on the entire real line. The corresponding Green function (heat kernel) is given in terms of elementary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-08-09 Erwin Suazo , Sergei K. Suslov , Jose M. Vega-Guzman

In this paper, we study the relationship between a diffusive model and a non-diffusive model which are both derived from the well-known Keller-Segel model, as a coefficient of diffusion $\varepsilon$ goes to zero. First, we establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Hongyun Peng , Huanyao Wen , Changjiang Zhu

The convergence to non-diffusive self-similar solutions is investigated for non-negative solutions to the Cauchy problem $\partial_t u = \Delta_p u + |\nabla u|^q$ when the initial data converge to zero at infinity. Sufficient conditions on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-07-30 Philippe Laurençot

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for the fractional diffusion and diffusion-wave equations involving a Caputo fractional derivative in time. We develop two "simple" fully discrete schemes based on the Galerkin finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

This article deals with the initial-boundary value problem for a moderately coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations. Defining the mild solution, we establish fundamental unique existence, limited smoothing property and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Zhiyuan Li , Xinchi Huang , Yikan Liu

We consider the Cauchy problem of the porous medium type reaction-diffusion equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t\rho=\Delta\rho^m+\rho g(\rho),\quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^n\times \mathbb{R}_+,\quad n\geq2,\quad m>1, \end{equation*} where $g$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Qingyou He