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The present paper discusses the diffusion approximation of the linear Boltzmann equation in cases where the collision frequency is not uniformly large in the spatial domain. Our results apply for instance to the case of radiative transfer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Claude Bardos , Etienne Bernard , François Golse , Rémi Sentis

An adaptive finite difference scheme for variable-order fractional-time subdiffusion equations in the Caputo form is studied. The fractional time derivative is discretized by the L1 procedure but using nonhomogeneous timesteps. The size of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Joaquín Quintana-Murillo , Santos Bravo Yuste

The numerical approximation of an inverse problem subject to the convection--diffusion equation when diffusion dominates is studied. We derive Carleman estimates that are on a form suitable for use in numerical analysis and with explicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

In the present article an endeavor is made to solve the variable order fractional diffusion equations using a powerful method viz., Homotopy Analysis method. It is demonstrated how the method can be used while solving approximately two…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Vivek Mishra , S. Das

Translational diffusion coefficients are routinely estimated from molecular dynamics simulations. Linear fits to mean squared displacement (MSD) curves have become the de facto standard, from simple liquids to complex biomacromolecules.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 Jakob Tómas Bullerjahn , Sören von Bülow , Gerhard Hummer

Convection-diffusion equations arise in a variety of applications such as particle transport, electromagnetics, and magnetohydrodynamics. Simulation of the convection-dominated regime for these problems, even with high-fidelity techniques,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-24 James H. Adler , Casey Cavanaugh , Xiaozhe Hu , Andy Huang , Nathaniel Trask

This article deals with the numerical approximation of effective coefficients in stochastic homogenization of discrete linear elliptic equations. The originality of this work is the use of a well-known abstract spectral representation…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Antoine Gloria , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

In this paper, we revisit the diffusive representations of fractional integrals established in \cite{diethelm2023diffusive} to explore novel variants of such representations which provide highly efficient numerical algorithms for the…

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

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

In this paper continuous time random walk models approximating fractional space-time diffusion processes are studied. Stochastic processes associated with the considered equations represent time-changed processes, where the time-change…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Sabir Umarov

This is a review of statistical inference methodology for stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion, otherwise called fractional diffusions. The first section reviews the theory needed to rigorously define them.…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Pablo Ramses Alonso-Martin , Horatio Boedihardjo , Anastasia Papavasiliou

In this paper, we develop an efficient numerical solver for unsteady diffusion-type partial differential equations with random coefficients. A major computational challenge in such problems lies in repeatedly handling large-scale linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Yujun Zhu , Min Li , Yulan Ning , Ju Ming

We construct a novel estimator for the diffusion coefficient of the limiting homogenized equation, when observing the slow dynamics of a multiscale model, in the case when the slow dynamics are of bounded variation. Previous research…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Theodoros Manikas , Anastasia Papavasiliou

We study a second order scheme for spatial fractional differential equations with variable coefficients. Previous results mainly concentrate on equations with diffusion coefficients that are proportional to each other. In this paper, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-18 Seakweng Vong , Pin Lyu

Determining the unknown order of the fractional derivative in differential equations simulating various processes is an important task of modern applied mathematics. In the last decade, this problem has been actively studied by specialists.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Shavkat Alimov , Ravshan Ashurov

We propose an alternative method for one-dimensional continuum diffusion models with spatially variable (heterogeneous) diffusivity. Our method, which extends recent work on stochastic diffusion, assumes the constant-coefficient homogenized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Elliot J. Carr

We consider an evolution equation with the regularized fractional derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with respect to the time variable, and a uniformly elliptic operator with variable coefficients acting in the spatial variables.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Samuil D. Eidelman , Anatoly N. Kochubei

In this article, we consider the inverse problem of determining spatially heterogeneous absorption and diffusion coefficients from a single measurement of the absorbed energy (in the steady-state diffusion approximation of light transfer).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-09 Elena Beretta , Monika Muszkieta , Wolf Naetar , Otmar Scherzer

Being exact at both short- and long-time limits, the Gaussian approximation is widely used to calculate neutron incoherent inelastic scattering functions in liquids. However, to overcome a few numerical difficulties, extra physical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Rong Du , Xiao-Xiao Cai

We present three schemes for the numerical approximation of fractional diffusion, which build on different definitions of such a non-local process. The first method is a PDE approach that applies to the spectral definition and exploits the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Andrea Bonito , Juan Pablo Borthagaray , Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado