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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

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

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 work, we investigate the recovery of a parameter in a diffusion process given by the order of derivation in time for a class of diffusion type equations, including both classical and time-fractional diffusion equations, from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

We couple the L1 discretization for Caputo derivative in time with spectral Galerkin method in space to devise a scheme that solves quasilinear subdiffusion equations. Both the diffusivity and the source are allowed to be nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Łukasz Płociniczak

In the paper, the initial-boundary value problems to a semilinear integro-differential equation with multi-term fractional Caputo derivatives are analyzed. A particular case of this equation models oxygen diffusion through capillaries.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Nataliya Vasylyeva

Quantum diffusion is a major topic in condensed-matter physics, and the Caldeira-Leggett model has been one of the most successful approaches to study this phenomenon. Here, we generalize this model by coupling the bath to the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-05 Audrique Vertessen , Robin C. Verstraten , Cristiane Morais Smith

We couple the L1 discretization of the Caputo fractional derivative in time with the Galerkin scheme to devise a linear numerical method for the semilinear subdiffusion equation. Two important points that we make are: nonsmooth initial data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Łukasz Płociniczak , Kacper Taźbierski

The Caputo time-derivative is usually defined pointwise for well-behaved functions, say, for continuously differentiable functions. Accordingly, in the theory of the partial fractional differential equations with the Caputo derivatives, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-27 Rudolf Gorenflo , Yuri Luchko , Masahiro Yamamoto

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

The ordinary subdiffusion equation, with a fractional time derivative of at most first order, describes a process in which the propagation velocity of diffusing molecules is unlimited. To avoid this non-physical property different forms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-09 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz , Aldona Dutkiewicz , Katarzyna D. Lewandowska

The ordinary subdiffusion equation, with a fractional time derivative of at most first order, describes a process in which the propagation velocity of diffusing molecules is unlimited. To avoid this non-physical property different forms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz , Aldona Dutkiewicz , Katarzyna D. Lewandowska

We use the hyperbolic subdiffusion equation with fractional time derivatives (the generalized Cattaneo equation) to study the transport process of electrolytes in media where subdiffusion occurs. In this model the flux is delayed in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz , Katarzyna D. Lewandowska

In this paper, we are interested in the study of a problem with fractional derivatives having boundary conditions of integral types. The problem represents a Caputo type advection-diffusion equation where the fractional order derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Saadoune Brahimi , Ahcene Merad , Adem Kilicman

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

Subdiffusion in a system in which mobile particles $A$ can chemically react with static particles $B$ according to the rule $A+B\rightarrow B$ is considered within a persistent random walk model. This model, which assumes a correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

In this work, we study an inverse problem of recovering a space-time dependent diffusion coefficient in the subdiffusion model from the distributed observation, where the mathematical model involves a Djrbashian-Caputo fractional derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Bangti Jin , Zhi Zhou

A fractional time derivative is introduced into the Burger's equation to model losses of nonlinear waves. This term amounts to a time convolution product, which greatly penalizes the numerical modeling. A diffusive representation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Bruno Lombard , Denis Matignon

In this paper we present numerical methods - finite differences and finite elements - for solution of partial differential equation of fractional order in time for one-dimensional space. This equation describes anomalous diffusion which is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mariusz Ciesielski , Jacek Leszczynski