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In this paper, we propose a novel numerical scheme for solving time-fractional reaction-diffusion problems with Robin boundary conditions, where the time derivative is in the Caputo sense of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. The existence and…

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The generalized diffusion equations with fractional order derivatives have shown be quite efficient to describe the diffusion in complex systems, with the advantage of producing exact expressions for the underlying diffusive properties.…

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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…

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Inverse problems for a diffusion equation containing a generalized fractional derivative are studied. The equation holds in a time interval $(0,T)$ and it is assumed that a state $u$ (solution of diffusion equation) and a source $f$ are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Jaan Janno

We begin with a treatment of the Caputo time-fractional diffusion equation, by using the Laplace transform, to obtain a Volterra intego-differential equation where we may examine the weakly singular nature of this convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Wesley Davis , Richard Noren , Ke Shi

The time-fractional diffusion-wave equation is revisited, where the time derivative is of order $2 \nu$ and $0 < \nu \le 1$. The behaviour of the equation is "diffusion-like" (respectively, "wave-like") when $0 < \nu \le \frac{1}{2}$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Marianito R. Rodrigo

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for the fractional diffusion and diffusion-wave equations involving a Caputo fractional derivative in time. We develop two "simple" fully discrete schemes based on the Galerkin finite element…

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The aim of this paper is to study the recovery of a spatially dependent potential in a (sub)diffusion equation from overposed final time data. We construct a monotone operator one of whose fixed points is the unknown potential. The…

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We obtain explicit expressions for one unknown thermal coefficient (among the conductivity, mass density, specific heat and latent heat of fusion) of a semi-infinite material through the one-phase fractional Lam\'e-Clapeyron-Stefan problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Domingo Alberto Tarzia

In a fractional Cauchy problem, the usual first order time derivative is replaced by a fractional derivative. The fractional derivative models time delays in a diffusion process. The order of the fractional derivative can be distributed…

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In the paper, we propose an analytical and numerical approach to identify scalar parameters (coefficients, orders of fractional derivatives) in the multi-term fractional differential operator in time, $\mathbf{D}_t$. To this end, we analyze…

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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…

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Fractional diffusion equations replace the integer-order derivatives in space and time by their fractional-order analogues. They are used in physics to model anomalous diffusion. This paper develops strong solutions of space-time fractional…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-19 Zhen-Qing Chen , Mark M. Meerschaert , Erkan Nane

This paper deals with the distributed order time-fractional diffusion equations with non-homogeneous Dirichlet (Nuemann) boundary condition. We first prove the wellposedness of the weak solution to the initial boundary value problem for the…

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An implicit finite difference method with non-uniform timesteps for solving the fractional diffusion equation in the Caputo form is proposed. The method allows one to build adaptive methods where the size of the timesteps is adjusted to the…

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We study the inverse problem of recovering the order and the diffusion coefficient of an elliptic fractional partial differential equation from a finite number of noisy observations of the solution. We work in a Bayesian framework and show…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

In this chapter, we mainly review theoretical results on inverse source problems for diffusion equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivatives of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. Our survey covers the following types of inverse problems: 1.…

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

We provide explicit classical solutions and stochastic analogues for distributed-order space-time fractional diffusion equations on bounded domains with zero exterior boundary conditions. We also show that our results still hold when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Ngartelbaye Guerngar , James McCormick

This paper deals with the investigation of the solution of an unified fractional reaction-diffusion equation of distributed order associated with the Caputo derivatives as the time-derivative and Riesz-Feller fractional derivative as the…

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