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Continuous time random walks have random waiting times between particle jumps. We define the correlated continuous time random walks (CTRWs) that converge to fractional Pearson diffusions (fPDs). The jumps in these CTRWs are obtained from…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Nikolai N. Leonenko , Ivan Papić , Alla Sikorskii , Nenad Šuvak

We consider continuous time random walks (CTRW) for open systems that exchange energy and matter with multiple reservoirs. Each waiting time distribution (WTD) for times between steps is characterized by a positive parameter a, which is set…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Katja Lindenberg

This paper considers a time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with a high-contrast heterogeneous diffusion coefficient. A numerical solution to this problem can present great computational challenges due to its multiscale nature.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Huiran Bai , Dmitry Ammosov , Yin Yang , Wei Xie , Mohammed Al Kobaisi

We consider continuous time random walks (CTRW) and discuss situations pertinent to aging. These correspond to the case when the initial state of the system is known not at preparation (at $t=0$) but at the later instant of time $t_1>0$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-16 V. Yu. Zaburdaev , I. M. Sokolov

The first passage time (FPT) for random walks is a key indicator of how fast information diffuses in a given system. Despite the role of FPT as a fundamental feature in transport phenomena, its behavior, particularly in heterogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hwang , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng

In this issue we demonstrate the very inspiring role of the continuous-time random walk (CTRW) formalism and its numerous modifications thanks to their flexibility and various applications as well its promising perspectives in different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Ryszard Kutner , Jaume Masoliver

Starting from a continuous time random walk (CTRW) model of particles that may evanesce as they walk, our goal is to arrive at macroscopic integro-differential equations for the probability density for a particle to be found at point r at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Abad , S. B. Yuste , Katja Lindenberg

Systems living in complex non equilibrated environments often exhibit subdiffusion characterized by a sublinear power-law scaling of the mean square displacement. One of the most common models to describe such subdiffusive dynamics is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-03 Andrea Cairoli , Adrian Baule

It is well established that a wide variety of phenomena in cellular and molecular biology involve anomalous transport e.g. the statistics for the motility of cells and molecules are fractional and do not conform to the archetypes of simple…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Thomas A. Waigh , Nickolay Korabel

In this paper we deal with anomalous diffusions induced by Continuous Time Random Walks - CTRW in $\mathbb{R}^n$. A particle moves in $\mathbb{R}^n$ in such a way that the probability density function $u(\cdot,t)$ of finding it in region…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Hugo Aimar , Gastón Beltritti , Ivana Gómez

In this paper we are examining diffusion properties of stationary continuous-time Weierstrass walk (CTWW). We are showing it is a multi-phase representation of the L\'evy walk. The hierarchical spatial-temporal coupling, combined with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-13 Tomasz Gubiec , Jarosław Klamut , Ryszard Kutner

A generalized persistent random walk (GPRW) model to study anomalous particle diffusion influenced by angular heterogeneity is presented. Consider the motion of a particle is composed of many consecutive straight line segments. At the end…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Kejie Chen , Bogdan Epureanu

In this article, we present new random walk methods to solve flow and transport problems in unsaturated/saturated porous media, including coupled flow and transport processes in soils, heterogeneous systems modeled through random hydraulic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Nicolae Suciu , Davide Illiano , Alexander Prechtel , Florin A. Radu

We propose a two-component reaction-transport model for the migration-proliferation dichotomy in the spreading of tumor cells. By using a continuous time random walk (CTRW) we formulate a system of the balance equations for the cancer cells…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 Sergei Fedotov , Alexander Iomin

We investigate the dynamics of a particle executing a general Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) in three dimensions under the influence of arbitrary time-varying external fields. Contrary to the general approach in recent works, our method…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-15 Shovan Dutta , Subhankar Ray , J. Shamanna

We study memory based random walk models to understand diffusive motion in crowded heterogeneous environment. The models considered are non-Markovian as the current move of the random walk models is determined by randomly selecting a move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Sabeeha Hasnain , Upendra Harbola , Pradipta Bandyopadhyay

The uncoupled Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) in one space-dimension and under power law regime is splitted into three distinct random walks: (rw_1), a random walk along the line of natural time, happening in operational time; (rw_2), a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi

Continuous Time Random Walk(CTRW) is a model where particle's jumps in space are coupled with waiting times before each jump. A Continuous Time Random Walk Limit(CTRWL) is obtained by a limit procedure on a CTRW and can be used to model…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Ofer Busani

We investigate a contaminant transport in fractal media with randomly inhomogeneous diffusion barrier. The diffusion barrier is a low permeable matrix with extremely rare high permeability pathways (punctures). At times, less than a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-12 Olga Dvoretskaya , Peter Kondratenko

It is a well known fact that subdiffusion equations in terms of fractional derivatives can be obtained from Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) models with long-tailed waiting time distributions. Over the last years various authors have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , K. Lindenberg