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The paper deals with an optimal control problem in a dynamical system described by a linear differential equation with the Caputo fractional derivative. The goal of control is to minimize a Bolza-type cost functional, which consists of two…
The main objective of this paper is analysis of the initial-boundary value problems for the linear and semilinear time-fractional diffusion equations with a uniformly elliptic spatial differential operator of the second order and the Caputo…
This paper explicitly computes the transition densities of a spectrally negative stable process with index greater than one, reflected at its infimum. First we derive the forward equation using the theory of sun-dual semigroups. The…
The aim of this tutorial survey is to revisit the basic theory of relaxation processes governed by linear differential equations of fractional order. The fractional derivatives are intended both in the Rieamann-Liouville sense and in the…
In this work, we consider a time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation, where the conventional first order time derivative is replaced by a Caputo fractional derivative with order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. First, the well-posedness and (limited) smoothing…
We introduce fractional Brownian motion processes (fBm) as an alternative model for the turbulent index of refraction. These processes allow to reconstruct most of the index properties, but they are not differentiable. We overcome the…
We study the first passage time (FPT) problem in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using the recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation, we obtain an analytic expression for the FPT distribution which, in the large passage time…
A one phase Stefan problem in nonlinear conduction is considered. The problem is shown to admit a unique solution for small times. An exact solution is obtained which is a travelling front moving with constant speed.
This paper addresses the optimal control problem for a class of nonlinear fractional systems involving Caputo derivatives and nonlocal initial conditions. The system is reformulated as an abstract Hammerstein-type operator equation,…
We consider a one-dimensional free boundary problem governed by a nonlinear diffusion - convection equation with a Neumann condition at fixed face $x=0$, which is variable in time and a like Stefan convective condition on the free boundary.…
We review some applications of fractional calculus developed by the author (partly in collaboration with others) to treat some basic problems in continuum and statistical mechanics. The problems in continuum mechanics concern mathematical…
We study multi-phase Stefan problem with increasing Riemann initial data and with generally negative latent specific heats for the phase transitions. We propose the variational formulation of self-similar solutions, which allows to find…
For characterizing the Brownian motion in a bounded domain: $\Omega$, it is well-known that the boundary conditions of the classical diffusion equation just rely on the given information of the solution along the boundary of a domain; on…
We study the regularity of the bounded self-similar solution to the one-phase Stefan problem with fractional diffusion posed on the whole line. In terms of the enthalpy $h(x,t)$, the evolution problem reads \[ \begin{cases} \partial_t h +…
The work considers a system of fractional order partial differential equations. The existence and uniqueness theorems for the classical solution of initial-boundary value problems are proved in two cases: 1) the right-hand side of the…
The Fokker-Planck Equation, applied to transport processes in fusion plasmas, can model several anomalous features, including uphill transport, scaling of confinement time with system size, and convective propagation of externally induced…
We introduce and study here a renewal process defined by means of a time-fractional relaxation equation with derivative order $\alpha(t)$ varying with time $t\geq0$. In particular, we use the operator introduced by Scarpi in the Seventies…
Power laws in time and frequency appear in fields such as linear viscoelasticity and acoustics, viscous boundary layer problems, and dielectrics. This is consistent with fractional derivatives in the fundamental descriptions, since power…
In this paper, we consider the backward problem for fractional in time evolution equations $\partial_t^\alpha u(t)= A u(t)$ with the Caputo derivative of order $0<\alpha \le 1$, where $A$ is a self-adjoint and bounded above operator on a…