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The classical one-phase Stefan problem describes the temperature distribution in a homogeneous medium undergoing a phase transition, such as ice melting to water. This is accomplished by solving the heat equation on a time-dependent domain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Mahir Hadžić , Steve Shkoller

The classical Stefan problem, concerning mere heat-transfer during solid-liquid phase transition, is here enhanced towards mechanical effects. The Eulerian description at large displacements is used with convective and Zaremba-Jaumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Tomáš Roubíček

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…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Petr N. Vabishchevich

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

In this paper we investigate existence of solutions for the system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} D^{\alpha}_tu=\textrm{div}(u \nabla p),\\ D^{\alpha}_tp=-(-\Delta)^{s}p+u^{2}, \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Esther S. Daus , Maria Pia Gualdani , Jingjing Xu , Nicola Zamponi , Xinyu Zhang

We study the nonlocal Stefan problem, where the phase transition is described by a nonlocal diffusion as well as the change of enthalpy functions. By using a stochastic optimization approach introduced for the local case, we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Raymond Chu , Inwon Kim , Young-Heon Kim , Kyeongsik Nam

In mathematical modeling of the non-squared frequency-dependent diffusions, also known as the anomalous diffusions, it is desirable to have a positive real Fourier transform for the time derivative of arbitrary fractional or odd integer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 W Chen

In this paper, we prove sharp blow-up and global existence results for a time fractional diffusion-wave equation with a nonlinear memory term in a bounded domain, where the fractional derivative in time is taken in the sense of Caputo type.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Quanguo Zhang

The time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation is a key model for characterizing anomalous diffusion, stochastic transport, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications in finance, chaotic dynamics, optical physics, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Neetu Garg , Varsha R

In this paper, we numerically address the inverse problem of identifying a time-dependent coefficient in the time-fractional diffusion equation. An a priori estimate is established to ensure uniqueness and stability of the solution. A fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Arshyn Altybay

A class of second order approximations, called the weighted and shifted Gr\"{u}nwald difference operators, are proposed for Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives, with their effective applications to numerically solving space fractional…

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This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the inverse random source problem for the time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Given the random source, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Xiaoli Feng , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

The present article is dedicated to the forward and backward solution of a transient one-phase Stefan problem. In the forward problem, we compute the evolution of the initial domain for a Stefan problem where the melting temperature varies…

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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…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Boris Baeumer , Mihály Kovács , Mark M. Meerschaert , René L. Schilling , Peter Straka

A matrix method for the solution of direct fractional Sturm-Liouville problems on bounded domain is proposed where the fractional derivative is defined in the Riesz sense. The scheme is based on the application of the Galerkin spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-06 Paolo Ghelardoni , Cecilia Magherini

This work introduces and analyzes a finite element scheme for evolution problems involving fractional-in-time and in-space differentiation operators up to order two. The left-sided fractional-order derivative in time we consider is employed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Gabriel Acosta , Francisco M. Bersetche , Juan Pablo Borthagaray

We describe and implement a numerical method for modelling the frequency-dependent power-law absorption of ultrasound in tissue, as governed by the first order linear wave equations with a loss taking the form of a fractional time…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Matthew. J. King , Timon. S. Gutleb , B. E. Treeby , B. T. Cox

We study a porous medium equation with right hand side. The operator has nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The derivative in time is also fractional of Caputo-type and which takes into account…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Mark Allen , Luis Caffarelli , Alexis Vasseur

Time fractional advection-dispersion equations arise as generalizations of classical integer order advection-dispersion equations and are increasingly used to model fluid flow problems through porous media. In this paper we develop an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Carlos E. Mejía , Alejandro Piedrahita