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Main results and techniques of the fractional calculus of variations are surveyed. We consider variational problems containing Caputo derivatives and study them using both indirect and direct methods. In particular, we provide necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

Sampling a target probability distribution with an unknown normalization constant is a fundamental challenge in computational science and engineering. Recent work shows that algorithms derived by considering gradient flows in the space of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Yifan Chen , Daniel Zhengyu Huang , Jiaoyang Huang , Sebastian Reich , Andrew M Stuart

We start with a general governing equation for diffusion transport, written in a conserved form, in which the phenomenological flux laws can be constructed in a number of alternative ways. We pay particular attention to flux laws that can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Tokinaga Namba , Piotr Rybka , Vaughan Voller

We derive the fractional version of one-phase one-dimensional Stefan model. We assume that the diffusive flux is given by the time-fractional Riemann-Liouville derivative, i.e. we impose the memory effect in the examined model.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Adam Kubica , Katarzyna Ryszewska

We consider a partial differential equation associated with a mathematical model describing the concentration of nutrients in blood which interferes directly on the erythrocyte sedimentation rate in the case of an average fluid velocity…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-27 José Vanterler da Costa Sousa , Edmundo Capelas de Oliveira , Luiz Alberto Magna

Fractional systems with Riemann-Liouville derivatives are considered. The initial memory value problem is posed and studied. We obtain explicit steering laws with respect to the values of the fractional integrals of the state variables. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Dorota Mozyrska , Delfim F. M. Torres

We introduce a notion of weak solution for abstract fractional differential equations, motivated by the definition of Caputo derivative. We prove existence results for weak and strong solutions. We also give two examples as application of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Paola Loreti , Daniela Sforza

Many theoretical studies on neural networks attribute their excellent empirical performance to the implicit bias or regularization induced by first-order optimization algorithms when training networks under certain initialization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Hancheng Min , René Vidal

The paper presents two representative classes of Impulsive Fractional Differential Equations defined with generalized Caputo\'s derivative, with fixed lower limit and changing lower limit, respectively. Memory principle is studied and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-17 Marius-F. Danca , Michal feckan

In the present paper, we address a class of the fractional derivatives of constant and variable orders for the first time. Fractional-order relaxation equations of constants and variable orders in the sense of Caputo type are modeled from…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Xiao-Jun Yang

We develop a gradient-flow theory for time-dependent functionals defined in abstract metric spaces. Global well-posedness and asymptotic behavior of solutions are provided. Conditions on functionals and metric spaces allow to consider the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Lucas C. F. Ferreira , Julio C. Valencia-Guevara

We develop the theory of discrete-time gradient flows for convex functions on Alexandrov spaces with arbitrary upper or lower curvature bounds. We employ different resolvent maps in the upper and lower curvature bound cases to construct…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Shin-ichi Ohta , Miklós Pálfia

This paper investigates the application of mini-batch gradient descent to semiflows (gradient flows). Given a loss function (potential), we introduce a continuous version of mini-batch gradient descent by randomly selecting sub-loss…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Alberto Domínguez Corella , Martín Hernández

We consider a time-fractional subdiffusion equation with a Caputo derivative in time, a general second-order elliptic spatial operator, and a right-hand side that is non-smooth in time. The presence of the latter may lead to locking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Sebastian Franz , Natalia Kopteva

Using kicked differential equations of motion with derivatives of noninteger orders, we obtain generalizations of the dissipative standard map. The main property of these generalized maps, which are called fractional maps, is long-term…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-03 Vasily E. Tarasov , Mark Edelman

The friction force is derived using fractional calculus by considering the non-uniform flow of time in dissipative processes. The approach incorporates inhomogeneous velocity without unphysical approximations, resulting in a Lagrangian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Georgii Koniukov

We develop a fully discrete scheme for time-fractional diffusion equations by using a finite difference method in time and a finite element method in space. The fractional derivatives are used in Caputo sense. Stability and error estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Ismail Jamiai , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper is concerned with the fractional evolution equation with a discrete distribution of Caputo time-derivatives such that the largest and the smallest orders, $\alpha$ and $\alpha_m$, satisfy the conditions $1<\alpha\le 2$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Emilia Bazhlekova , Ivan Bazhlekov

In this paper, the inherent gradient flow structures of thermo-poro-visco-elastic processes in porous media are examined for the first time. In the first part, a modelling framework is introduced aiming for describing such processes as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Jakub Wiktor Both , Kundan Kumar , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

We propose an extension of the cable equation by introducing a Caputo time fractional derivative. The fundamental solutions of the most common boundary problems are derived analitically via Laplace Transform, and result be written in terms…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Silvia Vitali , Gastone Castellani , Francesco Mainardi