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There has been considerable recent study in "sub-diffusion" models that replace the standard parabolic equation model by a one with a fractional derivative in the time variable. There are many ways to look at this newer approach and one…

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An unsteady problem is considered for a space-fractional diffusion equation in a bounded domain. A first-order evolutionary equation containing a fractional power of an elliptic operator of second order is studied for general boundary…

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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

When considering fractional diffusion equation as model equation in analyzing anomalous diffusion processes, some important parameters in the model, for example, the orders of the fractional derivative or the source term, are often unknown,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper, we study both the direct and inverse random source problems associated with the multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Regarding the direct problem, the well-posedness is…

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In this article, we investigate both forward and backward problems for coupled systems of time-fractional diffusion equations, encompassing scenarios of strong coupling. For the forward problem, we establish the well-posedness of the…

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We investigate evolution equations for anomalous diffusion employing fractional derivatives in space and time. Linkage between the space-time variables leads to a new type of fractional derivative operator. Fractional diffusion equations…

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The problem of determining the initial condition from noisy final observations in time-fractional parabolic equations is considered. This problem is well-known to be ill-posed and it is regularized by backward Sobolev-type equations. Error…

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We present a framework which enables the analysis of dynamic inverse problems for wave phenomena that are modeled through second-order hyperbolic PDEs. This includes well-posedness and regularity results for the forward operator in an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Thies Gerken

In this paper, we study the problem of finding the solution of a multi-dimensional time fractional reactiondiffusion equation with nonlinear source from the final value data. We prove that the present problem is not well-posed. Then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Nguyen Huy Tuan , Tran Ngoc Thach , Donal O'Regan , Nguyen Huu Can

When considering fractional diffusion equation as model equation in analyzing anomalous diffusion processes, some important parameters in the model related to orders of the fractional derivatives, are often unknown and difficult to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this paper, we focus on a space-time fractional diffusion equation with the generalized Caputo's fractional derivative operator and a general space nonlocal operator (with the fractional Laplace operator as a special case). A weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Junxiong Jia , Jigen Peng , Jiaqing Yang

We consider optimal control of fractional in time (subdiffusive, i.e., for $% 0<\gamma <1$) semilinear parabolic PDEs associated with various notions of diffusion operators in an unifying fashion. Under general assumptions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Harbir Antil , Ciprian G. Gal , Mahamadi Warma

Nowadays, fractional differential equations are a well established tool to model phenomena from the real world. Since the analytical solution is rarely available, there is a great effort in constructing efficient numerical methods for their…

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The identification of the right order of the equation in applied fractional modeling plays an important role. In this paper we consider an inverse problem for determining the order of time fractional derivative in a subdiffusion equation…

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In this paper, we develop a numerical algorithm for an inverse problem on determining fractional orders of time derivatives simultaneously in a coupled subdiffusion system. Following the theoretical uniqueness, we reformulate the order…

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Semi-Lagrangian methods have traditionally been developed in the framework of hyperbolic equations, but several extensions of the Semi-Lagrangian approach to diffusion and advection--diffusion problems have been proposed recently. These…

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Our aim is to study the backward problem, i.e. recover the initial data from the terminal observation, of the subdiffusion with time dependent coefficients. First of all, by using the smoothing property of solution operators and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Zhengqi Zhang , Zhi Zhou

We consider the well-posedness of the initial-boundary value problem for a time-fractional partial differential equation with the fractional order lying in (1,2]. For the case of time-dependent coefficients, it is difficult to give an…

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