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A standard inverse problem is to determine a source which is supported in an unknown domain $D$ from external boundary measurements. Here we consider the case of a time-dependent situation where the source is equal to unity in an unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-08 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang

In this work, we consider a FDE (fractional diffusion equation) $${}^C D_t^\alpha u(x,t)-a(t)\mathcal{L} u(x,t)=F(x,t)$$ with a time-dependent diffusion coefficient $a(t)$. For the direct problem, given an $a(t),$ we establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Zhidong Zhang

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

In this work, a complete error analysis is presented for fully discrete solutions of the subdiffusion equation with a time-dependent diffusion coefficient, obtained by the Galerkin finite element method with conforming piecewise linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Bangti Jin , Buyang Li , Zhi Zhou

We investigate the behavior of the time derivatives of the solution to a linear time-fractional, advection-diffusion-reaction equation, allowing space- and time-dependent coefficients as well as initial data that may have low regularity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 William McLean , Kassem Mustapha , Raed Ali , Omar M. Knio

This paper deals with the multi-term generalisation of the time-fractional diffusion-wave equation for general operators with discrete spectrum, as well as for positive hypoelliptic operators, with homogeneous multi-point time-nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov , Berikbol T. Torebek

Starting with the Green's functions found for normal diffusion, we construct exact time-dependent Green's functions for subdiffusive equation (with fractional time derivatives), with the boundary conditions involving a linear combination of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz

A class of optimal control problems governed by linear fractional diffusion equation with control constraint is considered. We first establish some results on the existence of strong solution to the state equation and the existence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Bui Trong Kien , Bui Ngoc Muoi , Ching-Feng Wen , Jen-Chih Yao

In this article, we study the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to the fractional single-phase lag heat equation. This model contains the terms $\cal{D}_t^\alpha(u_t)$ and $\cal{D}_t^\alpha u $ (with $\alpha \in(0,1)$), where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Frederick Maes , Karel Van Bockstal

We consider the initial/boundary value problem for a diffusion equation involving multiple time-fractional derivatives on a bounded convex polyhedral domain. We analyze a space semidiscrete scheme based on the standard Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Yikan Liu , Zhi Zhou

The backward problem for subdiffusion equation with the fractional Riemann-Liouville time-derivative of order ? 2 (0; 1) and an arbitrary positive self-adjoint operator A is considered. This problem is ill-posed in the sense of Hadamard due…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Shavcat Alimov , Ravshan Ashurov

In this paper we study the class of mixed-index time fractional differential equations in which different components of the problem have different time fractional derivatives on the left hand side. We prove a theorem on the solution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Kevin Burrage , Pamela M. Burrage , Ian W. Turner , Fanhai Zeng

Time-fractional parabolic equations with a Caputo time derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ are discretized in time using continuous collocation methods. For such discretizations, we give sufficient conditions for existence and uniqueness…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Sebastian Franz , Natalia Kopteva

We consider the inverse problem of determining different type of information about a diffusion process, described by ordinary or fractional diffusion equations stated on a bounded domain, like the density of the medium or the velocity field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-05 Yavar Kian , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

This article is devoted to the detection of parameters in anomalous diffusion from a single passive measurement. More precisely, we consider the simultaneous identification of coefficients as well as a time-dependent source term appearing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Maolin Deng , Ali Feizmohammadi , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

In the present article, we study the diffusion equations with fractional time derivatives. The aim of this paper is to investigate the best possible regularity for the initial value/boundary value problems with non-homogeneous Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Kenichi Fujishiro

Anomalous diffusion is often modelled in terms of the subdiffusion equation, which can involve a weakly singular source term. For this case, many predominant time stepping methods, including the correction of high-order BDF schemes [{\sc…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Jiankang Shi , Minghua Chen

Inverse problem to recover simultaneously a scalar coefficient, order of a time-fractional derivative, parameters of multiterm fractional Laplacian and a time-dependent source term occurring in a superdiffusion equation from measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Hany Gerges , Jaan Janno

We consider a class of nonlinear fractional equations having the Caputo fractional derivative of the time variable $t$, the fractional order of the self-adjoint positive definite unbounded operator in a Hilbert space and a singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Nguyen Minh Dien , Erkan Nane , Dang Duc Trong

Duhamel's principle reduces the Cauchy problem for an inhomogeneous partial differential equation to the corresponding homogeneous problem. In the fractional-order setting, the classical principle does not apply directly because fractional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Sabir Umarov