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This paper provides a new numerical strategy to solve fractional in space reaction-diffusion equations on bounded domains under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Using the matrix transform method the fractional Laplacian operator…

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We consider the homogeneous equation ${\mathcal A} u=0$, where ${\mathcal A}$ is a symmetric and coercive elliptic operator in $H^1(\Omega)$ with $\Omega$ bounded domain in ${{\mathbb R}}^d$. The boundary conditions involve fractional power…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Raytcho Lazarov , Petr Vabishchevich

A finite difference numerical method is investigated for fractional order diffusion problems in one space dimension. For this, a mathematical model is developed to incorporate homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary conditions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Béla J. Szekeres , Ferenc Izsák

The present paper is concerned with the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for fractional (and non-fractional) nonlinear diffusion equations posed in bounded domains. Main results consist of well-posedness in an energy class with no sign restriction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Goro Akagi , Florian Salin

The Fractional Diffusion Equation (FDE) is a mathematical model that describes anomalous transport phenomena characterized by non-local and long-range dependencies which deviate from the traditional behavior of diffusion. Solving this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Emmanuel Asante-Asamani , Olaniyi S. Iyiola

Reactio-nonlocal diffusion equations model nonlocal transport and anomalous diffusion by replacing the Laplacian with a fractional power, capturing diffusion mechanisms beyond Brownian motion. We primarily study the semilinear problem \[…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Pu Yuan , Paul A. Zegeling

Fractional equations have become the model of choice in several applications where heterogeneities at the microstructure result in anomalous diffusive behavior at the macroscale. In this work we introduce a new fractional operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Marta D'Elia , Christian Glusa

We consider boundary value problems with Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives of order $s\in (1, 2)$ with non-constant diffusion and reaction coefficients. A variational formulation is derived and analyzed leading to the well-posedness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ruben Aylwin , Göksu Oruc , Karsten Urban

In this work, we consider the numerical recovery of a spatially dependent diffusion coefficient in a subdiffusion model from distributed observations. The subdiffusion model involves a Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Bangti Jin , Zhi Zhou

We investigate the inverse problem consisting in the identification of constant coefficients for a fractional-in-time partial differential equation governed by a finite sum of positive self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Simone Creo , Maria Rosaria Lancia , Andrea Mola , Gianluca Mola , Silvia Romanelli

Motivated by problems where the response is needed at select localized regions in a large computational domain, we devise a novel finite element discretization that results in exponential convergence at pre-selected points. The two key…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Murthy N. Guddati , Vladimir Druskin , Ali Vaziri Astaneh

We study two identification problems in relation with a strongly degenerate parabolic diffusion equation characterized by a vanishing diffusion coefficient $u\in W^{1,\infty},$ with the property $\frac{1}{u}\notin L^{1}. $ The aim is to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Genni Fragnelli , Gabriela Marinoschi , Rosa Maria Mininni , Silvia Romanelli

We develop a fast divided-and-conquer indirect collocation method for the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problem of variable-order space-fractional diffusion equations. Due to the impact of the space-dependent variable order, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Jinhong Jia , Xiangcheng Zheng , Hong Wang

The integral fractional Laplacian of order $s \in (0,1)$ is a nonlocal operator. It is known that solutions to the Dirichlet problem involving such an operator exhibit an algebraic boundary singularity regardless of the domain regularity.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Dmitriy Leykekhman , Ricardo H. Nochetto

In this work, we consider a FDE (fractional diffusion equation) $${}^C D_t^\alpha u(x,t)-a(t)\mathcal{L} u(x,t)=F(x,t)$$ with a time-dependent diffusion coefficient $a(t)$. For the direct problem, given an $a(t),$ we establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Zhidong Zhang

In this article, we are concerned with the following eigenvalue problem of a linear second order elliptic operator: \begin{equation} \nonumber -D\Delta \phi -2\alpha\nabla m(x)\cdot \nabla\phi+V(x)\phi=\lambda\phi\ \ \hbox{ in }\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Rui Peng , Guanghui Zhang , Maolin Zhou

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

Some mathematical models of applied problems lead to the need of solving boundary value problems with a fractional power of an elliptic operator. In a number of works, approximations of such a nonlocal operator are constructed on the basis…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Petr N. Vabishchevich

We derive a computable a posteriori error estimator for the $\alpha$-harmonic extension problem, which localizes the fractional powers of elliptic operators supplemented with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our a posteriori error estimator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Long Chen , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otárola , Abner J. Salgado

In bounded, polygonal domains $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with Lipschitz boundary $\partial\Omega$ consisting of a finite number of Jordan curves admitting analytic parametrizations, we analyze $hp$-FEM discretizations of linear, second…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Lehel Banjai , Jens M. Melenk , Christoph Schwab