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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…

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We consider a fractional diffusion equations of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ whose source term is singular in time: $(\partial_t^\alpha+A)u(x,t)=\mu(t)f(x)$, $(x,t)\in\Omega\times(0,T)$, where $\mu$ belongs to a Sobolev space of negative order.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper, we discuss the maximum principle for a time-fractional diffusion equation $$ \partial_t^\alpha u(x,t) = \sum_{i,j=1}^n \partial_i(a_{ij}(x)\partial_j u(x,t)) + c(x)u(x,t) + F(x,t),\ t>0,\ x \in \Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^n$$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Yuri Luchko , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper, we establish a strong maximum principle for fractional diffusion equations with multiple Caputo derivatives in time, and investigate a related inverse problem of practical importance. Exploiting the solution properties and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Yikan Liu

In this work we investigate an inverse coefficient problem for the one-dimensional subdiffusion model, which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time. The inverse problem is to determine two coefficients and multiple parameters (the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Rachid Zarouf , Zhi Zhou

An implicit finite difference method with non-uniform timesteps for solving the fractional diffusion equation in the Caputo form is proposed. The method allows one to build adaptive methods where the size of the timesteps is adjusted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Santos B. Yuste , Joaquín Quintana-Murillo

We develop a fully discrete scheme for time-fractional diffusion equations by using a finite difference method in time and a finite element method in space. The fractional derivatives are used in Caputo sense. Stability and error estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Ismail Jamiai , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this paper, the one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion-wave equation with the fractional derivative of order $1 \le \alpha \le 2$ is revisited. This equation interpolates between the diffusion and the wave equations that behave quite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Yuri Luchko , Francesco Mainardi , Yuriy Povstenko

We deal with the Cauchy problem for the space-time fractional diffusion-wave equation, which is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the second-order space derivative with a Riesz-Feller derivative of order alpha in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-23 Francesco Mainardi , Yuri Luchko , Gianni Pagnini

We investigate the Cauchy problem for a semilinear spatio--temporal fractional diffusion equation with a time-dependent forcing term: \[ \partial_t^\alpha u + (-\Delta)^{\mathsf{s}} u = |u|^p + t^{\sigma}\,\mathbf{w}(x), \quad (t,x) \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Rihab Ben Belgacem , Mohamed Majdoub

A physical-mathematical approach to anomalous diffusion may be based on generalized diffusion equations (containing derivatives of fractional order in space or/and time) and related random walk models. The fundamental solution (for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-25 Rudolf Gorenflo , Francesco Mainardi , Daniele Moretti , Gianni Pagnini , Paolo Paradisi

This paper investigates an inverse source problem for a multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation with Caputo derivatives. The source term is separable as \(f(x)g(t)\), with the unknown spatial component \(f(x)\) reconstructed from an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Ravshan Ashurov , Damir Shamuratov

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

This study addresses the inverse source problem for the fractional diffusion-wave equation, characterized by a source comprising spatial and temporal components. The investigation is primarily concerned with practical scenarios where data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Lingyun Qiu , Jiwoon Sim

We consider initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional diffusion equation with time-fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ which are subject to non-zero Neumann boundary conditions. We prove the uniqueness for an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-25 W. Rundell , M. Yamamoto

In this article, we consider the space-time Fractional (nonlocal) diffusion equation $$\partial_t^\beta u(t,x)={\mathtt{L}_D^{\alpha_1,\alpha_2}} u(t,x), \ \ t\geq 0, \ x\in D, $$ where $\partial_t^\beta$ is the Caputo fractional derivative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Ngartelbaye Guerngar , Erkan Nane , Süleyman Ulusoy , Hans Werner Van Wyk

In this paper, we discuss the uniqueness for solution to time-fractional diffusion equation $\partial_t^\alpha (u-u_0) + Au=0$ with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition, where an elliptic operator $-A$ is not necessarily symmetric.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Daijun Jiang , Zhiyuan Li , Matthieu Pauron , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider a Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous differential equation given in terms of an unbounded linear operator $A$ and the Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0, 2)$ in time. The previously known representation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Dmytro Sytnyk , Barbara Wohlmuth

This paper is concerned with the fractional evolution equation with a discrete distribution of Caputo time-derivatives such that the largest and the smallest orders, $\alpha$ and $\alpha_m$, satisfy the conditions $1<\alpha\le 2$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Emilia Bazhlekova , Ivan Bazhlekov

We prove the uniqueness in determining a spatially varying zeroth-order coefficient of a one-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equation by initial value and Cauchy data at one end point of the spatial interval.

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