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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…

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The time-fractional convection-diffusion equation is performed by Lie symmetry analysis method which involves the Riemann-Liouville time-fractional derivative of the order $\alpha\in(0,2)$. In eight cases, the symmetries are obtained and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-12-09 Junjun Zhang , Jun Zhang

This article is concerned with the inverse problem on determining the temporal component of the source term in a coupled system of time-fractional diffusion equations by single point observation. Under a non-degeneracy condition on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Mohamed BenSalah , Yikan Liu

We study solution techniques for parabolic equations with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative, the latter being discretized and analyzed in a general Hilbert space setting. The spatial fractional diffusion is realized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

The paper considers the initial-boundary value problem for equation $D^\rho_t u(x,t)+ (-\Delta)^\sigma u(x,t)=0$, $\rho\in (0,1)$, $\sigma>0$, in an N-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with a homogeneous Dirichlet condition. The fractional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Ravshan Ashurov , Ilyoskhuja Sulaymonov

The first part of this paper introduces sufficient conditions to determine conservation laws of diffusion equations of arbitrary fractional order in time. Numerical methods that satisfy a discrete analogue of these conditions have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Angelamaria Cardone , Gianluca Frasca-Caccia

We consider the general problem of the first passage distribution of particles whose displacements are subject to time delays. We show that this problem gives rise to a \emph{propagation-dispersion equation} which is obtained as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean Pierre Boon , Patrick Grosfils , James F. Lutsko

In this paper, we study the asymptotic estimate of solution for a mixed-order time-fractional diffusion equation in a bounded domain subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Firstly, the unique existence and regularity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Zhiyuan Li , Xinchi Huang , Masahiro Yamamoto

Time-fractional parabolic equations with a Caputo time derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ are discretised in time using collocation methods, which assume that the Caputo derivative of the computed solution is piecewise-polynomial. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Sebastian Franz , Natalia Kopteva

This paper is concerned with an inverse problem of recovering a potential term and fractional order in a one-dimensional subdiffusion problem, which involves a Djrbashian-Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time, from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Bangti Jin , Zhi Zhou

In a fractional Cauchy problem, the usual first order time derivative is replaced by a fractional derivative. This problem was first considered by \citet{nigmatullin}, and \citet{zaslavsky} in $\mathbb R^d$ for modeling some physical…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Erkan Nane

We present a weighted $L_{q}(L_{p})$-theory ($p,q\in(1,\infty)$) with Muckenhoupt weights for the equation $$ \partial_{t}^{\alpha}u(t,x)=\Delta u(t,x) +f(t,x), \quad t>0, x\in \mathbb{R}^d. $$ Here, $\alpha\in (0,2)$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Beom-Seok Han , Kyeong-Hun Kim , Daehan Park

This paper develops a high-accuracy algorithm for time fractional wave problems, which employs a spectral method in the temporal discretization and a finite element method in the spatial discretization. Moreover, stability and convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Binjie Li , Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

In this work, an analogue of the Tricomi problem for equations of mixed type with a fractional derivative is investigated. In one part of the domain, the considered equation is a subdiffusion equation with a fractional derivative of order ?…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 R. R. Ashurov , R. T. Zunnunov

In this article, we consider the diffusion equation with multi-term time-fractional derivatives. We first derive that the solution is positive when the source term is nonpositive by a subordination principle for the solution. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Xiaona Yang , Zhiyuan Li

An inverse problem to determine a space-dependent factor in a semilinear time-fractional diffusion equation is considered. Additional data are given in the form of an integral with the Borel measure over the time. Uniqueness of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Jaan Janno , Kairi Kasemets

The partial differential equation of Gaussian diffusion is generalized by using the time-fractional derivative of distributed order between 0 and 1, in both the Riemann-Liouville (R-L) and the Caputo (C) sense. For a general distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Francesco Mainardi , Antonio Mura , Gianni Pagnini , Rudolf Gorenflo

We study the question of positivity of the fundamental solution for fractional diffusion and wave equations of the form, which may be of fractional order both in space and time. We give a complete characterization for the positivity of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Jukka Kemppainen

An initial-boundary value problem for the time-fractional diffusion equation is discretized in space using continuous piecewise-linear finite elements on a polygonal domain with a re-entrant corner. Known error bounds for the case of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Kim Ngan Le , William McLean , Bishnu Lamichhane

This paper establishes the convergence of a time-steeping scheme for time fractional diffusion problems with nonsmooth data. We first analyze the regularity of the model problem with nonsmooth data, and then prove that the time-steeping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-30 Binjie Li , Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie