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We present in this paper a rigorous method to derive the nonlinear Fokker-Planck (FP) equation of anomalous diffusion directly from a generalization of the principle of least action of Maupertuis proposed by Wang for smooth or quasi-smooth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Wei Li , Alexandre Wang , Alain Le Mehaute

We study the first passage time (FPT) problem in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using the recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation, we obtain an analytic expression for the FPT distribution which, in the large passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding

We introduce a novel discretization technique for both elliptic and parabolic fractional diffusion problems based on double exponential quadrature formulas and the Riesz-Dunford functional calculus. Compared to related schemes, the new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-11 Alexander Rieder

This paper deals with the problem of efficient sampling from a stochastic differential equation, given the drift function and the diffusion matrix. The proposed approach leverages a recent model for probabilities \cite{rudi2021psd} (the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 Anant Raj , Umut Şimşekli , Alessandro Rudi

We present an analysis of existence, uniqueness, and smoothness of the solution to a class of fractional ordinary differential equations posed on the whole real line that models a steady state behavior of a certain anomalous diffusion,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-05-25 V. Ginting , Y. Li

In this work, we explore a time-fractional diffusion equation of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with a stochastic diffusivity parameter. We focus on efficient estimation of the expected values (considered as an infinite dimensional integral on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Josef Dick , Hecong Gao , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

We present and analyze a space-time Petrov-Galerkin finite element method for a time-fractional diffusion equation involving a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time and zero initial data. We derive a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Beiping Duan , Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Joseph Pasciak , Zhi Zhou

The focus of our study in this paper is on the active dynamics and a fractional generalized Langevin equation with a memory kernel K(t). The Fokker-Planck equation is obtained by deriving it from a second-order differential equation. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-17 Yun Jeong Kang , Kyungsik Kim

This article presents a new finite element method for convection-diffusion equations by enhancing the continuous finite element space with a flux space for flux approximations that preserve the important mass conservation locally on each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang , Qingsong Zou

We obtain equilibration rates for a one-dimensional nonlocal Fokker-Planck equation with time-dependent diffusion coefficient and drift, modeling the relaxation of a large swarm of robots, feeling each other in terms of their distance,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Ferdinando Auricchio , Giuseppe Toscani , Mattia Zanella

This paper investigates the probability distribution of solutions to McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H>1/2. Our main contribution is the derivation of the associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Saloua Labed , Nacira Agram , Bernt Oksendal

We derive a diffusion approximation for the kinetic Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation in bounded spatial domains with specular reflection type boundary conditions. The method of proof involves the construction of a particular class of test…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Ludovic Cesbron , Harsha Hutridurga

The Fokker-Planck (FP) model is one of the commonly used methods for studies of the dynamical evolution of dense spherical stellar systems such as globular clusters and galactic nuclei. The FP model is numerically stable in most cases, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Jihye Shin , Sungsoo S. Kim

This paper considers a large class of nonlinear integro-differential scalar equations which involve an anomalous diffusion (e.g. driven by a fractional Laplacian) and a non-local singular convolution kernel. Each of those singular equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Christian Olivera , Marielle Simon

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 Fokker-Planck equation with diffusion coefficient quadratic in space variable, linear drift coefficient, and nonlocal nonlinearity term is considered in the framework of a model of analysis of asset returns at financial markets. For…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-10 Alexander Shapovalov , Andrey Trifonov , Elena Masalova

Stochastic differential equations with Levy motion arise the mathematical models for various phenomenon in geophysical and biochemical sciences. The Fokker Planck equation for such a stochastic differential equations is a nonlocal partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Li Lin

We investigate a second-order accurate time-stepping scheme for solving a time-fractional diffusion equation with a Caputo derivative of order~$\alpha \in (0,1)$. The basic idea of our scheme is based on local integration followed by linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Kassem Mustapha , William McLean , Josef Dick

This paper, as the sequel to previous work, develops numerical schemes for fractional diffusion equations on a two-dimensional finite domain with triangular meshes. We adopt the nodal discontinuous Galerkin methods for the full spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Liangliang Qiu , Weihua Deng , Jan Hesthaven

This work explores different particle-based approaches to the simulation of one-dimensional fractional subdiffusion equations in unbounded domains. We rely on smooth particle approximations, and consider four methods for estimating the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-14 S. Allouch , M. Lucchesi , O. P. Le Maître , K. A. Mustapha , O. M. Knio