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Fractional diffusion has become a fundamental tool for the modeling of multiscale and heterogeneous phenomena. However, due to its nonlocal nature, its accurate numerical approximation is delicate. We survey our research program on the…

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This work explores different particle-based approaches to the simulation of one-dimensional fractional subdiffusion equations in unbounded domains. We rely on smooth particle approximations, and consider four methods for estimating the…

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This paper detailedly discusses the locally one-dimensional numerical methods for efficiently solving the three-dimensional fractional partial differential equations, including fractional advection diffusion equation and Riesz fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-07 Weihua Deng , Minghua Chen

This study reexamines diffusive representations for fractional integrals with the goal of pioneering new variants of such representations. These variants aim to offer highly efficient numerical algorithms for the approximate computation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Renu Chaudhary , Kai Diethelm

In this article we consider the approximation of a variable coefficient (two-sided) fractional diffusion equation (FDE), having unknown $u$. By introducing an intermediate unknown, $q$, the variable coefficient FDE is rewritten as a lower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Xiangcheng Zheng , V. J. Ervin , Hong Wang

A reaction-diffusion problem with a Caputo time derivative is considered. An integral discretization scheme on a graded mesh along with a decomposition of the exact solution is proposed. The truncation error estimate of the discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Zhongdi Cen , Jian Huang , Anbo Le , Aimin Xu

The survey is devoted to numerical solution of the fractional equation $A^\alpha u=f$, $0 < \alpha <1$, where $A$ is a symmetric positive definite operator corresponding to a second order elliptic boundary value problem in a bounded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Stanislav Harizanov , Raytcho Lazarov , Svetozar Margenov

Recently, we have proposed a new diffusive representation for fractional derivatives and, based on this representation, suggested an algorithm for their numerical computation. From the construction of the algorithm, it is immediately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kai Diethelm

A new method that enables easy and convenient discretization of partial differential equations with derivatives of arbitrary real order (so-called fractional derivatives) and delays is presented and illustrated on numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Igor Podlubny , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Tomas Skovranek , YangQuan Chen , Blas M. Vinagre Jara

The present work provides a critical assessment of numerical solutions of the space-fractional diffusion-advection equation, which is of high significance for applications in various natural sciences. In view of the fact that, in contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-27 Robin Stern , Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Tobias Schaefer

In this paper, we present a new numerical method to solve fractional differential equations. Given a fractional derivative of arbitrary real order, we present an approximation formula for the fractional operator that involves integer-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Ricardo Almeida , Nuno R. O. Bastos

Physical laws governing population dynamics are generally expressed as differential equations. Research in recent decades has incorporated fractional-order (non-integer) derivatives into differential models of natural phenomena, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-08 A. P. Harris , T. A. Biala , A. Q. M. Khaliq

The aim of this paper is to develop and analyze numerical schemes for approximately solving the backward problem of subdiffusion equation involving a fractional derivative in time with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. After using quasi-boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

This chapter presents some numerical methods to solve problems in the fractional calculus of variations and fractional optimal control. Although there are plenty of methods available in the literature, we concentrate mainly on approximating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-19 Shakoor Pooseh , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

The following document presents some novel numerical methods valid for one and several variables, which using the fractional derivative, allow to find solutions for some non-linear systems in the complex space using real initial conditions.…

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State-of-the-art models for aerosol particle nucleation and growth from a cooling vapor primarily use a nodal method to numerically solve particle growth kinetics. In this method, particles that are smaller than the critical size are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 A. Khrabry , I. D. Kaganovich , S. Raman , E. Turkoz , D. Graves

We study solution techniques for an evolution equation involving second order derivative in time and the spectral fractional powers, of order $s \in (0,1)$, of symmetric, coercive, linear, elliptic, second-order operators in bounded domains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Lehel Banjai , Enrique Otarola

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used, with huge success, to model phenomena arising across all scientific and engineering disciplines. However, across an equally wide swath, there exist situations in which PDE models fail to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Marta D'Elia , Qiang Du , Christian Glusa , Max Gunzburger , Xiaochuan Tian , Zhi Zhou

We study the numerical behaviour of a particle method for gradient flows involving linear and nonlinear diffusion. This method relies on the discretisation of the energy via non-overlapping balls centred at the particles. The resulting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-07 J. A. Carrillo , Y. Huang , F. S. Patacchini , G. Wolansky

This paper discusses the spectral collocation method for numerically solving nonlocal problems: one dimensional space fractional advection-diffusion equation; and two dimensional linear/nonlinear space fractional advection-diffusion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-30 WenYi Tian , Weihua Deng , Yujiang Wu
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