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In a fractional Cauchy problem, the usual first order time derivative is replaced by a fractional derivative. This problem was first considered by \citet{nigmatullin}, and \citet{zaslavsky} in $\mathbb R^d$ for modeling some physical…
A fractional diffusion equation with advection term is rigorously derived from a kinetic transport model with a linear turning operator, featuring a fat-tailed equilibrium distribution and a small directional bias due to a given vector…
Many problems in finance require the information on the first passage time (FPT) of a stochastic process. Mathematically, such problems are often reduced to the evaluation of the probability density of the time for such a process to cross a…
Uchaikin suggested a mathematical model of an anomalous diffusion in a space was suggested. This model origins in an investigation of processes in complex systems with variable structure: glasses, liquid crystals, biopolymers, proteins and…
We study a model that intermediates among the wave, heat, and transport equations. The approach considers the propagation of initial disturbances in a one-dimensional medium that can vibrate. The medium is nonlinear in such a form that…
The diffusion equation and its time-fractional counterpart can be obtained via the diffusion limit of continuous-time random walks with exponential and heavy-tailed waiting time distributions. The space dependent variable-order…
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…
In the present work, we consider the Cauchy problem for the time fractional diffusion equation involving the general Caputo-type differential operator proposed by Kochubei. First, the existence, the positivity and the long time behavior of…
Many biophysical processes begin when the fastest searcher finds a target out of many random searchers, which is called an extreme or fastest first passage time (fFPT). In some models, (i) the fFPT vanishes logarithmically as the number of…
We consider initial boundary value problems for time fractional diffusion-wave equations: $$ d_t^{\alpha} u = -Au + \mu(t)f(x) $$ in a bounded domain where $\mu(t)f(x)$ describes a source and $\alpha \in (0,1) \cup (1,2)$, and $-A$ is a…
In this paper, a high-order approximation to Caputo-type time-fractional diffusion equations involving an initial-time singularity of the solution is proposed. At first, we employ a numerical algorithm based on the Lagrange polynomial…
In this work, the first initial-boundary value problem for a sub-diffusion equation involving the regularized Prabhakar fractional derivative is studied. The problem is solved by reducing it to two initial-boundary value problems using the…
In this paper, we first propose an unconditionally stable implicit difference scheme for solving generalized time-space fractional diffusion equations (GTSFDEs) with variable coefficients. The numerical scheme utilizes the $L1$-type formula…
We study the large-time asymptotics of the mean-square displacement for the time-fractional Schrodinger equation in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We define the time-fractional derivative by the Caputo derivative and we consider the initial-value problem…
We study a Caputo time fractional degenerate diffusion equation which we prove to be equivalent to the fractional parabolic obstacle problem, showing that its solution evolves for any $\alpha\in(0,1)$ to the same stationary state, the…
We study a space-fractional Stefan problem, where the non-local diffusion flux is modeled by the Caputo derivative. We obtain the unique existence of classical solution to this problem.
Based on the mean first passage time (MFPT) theory, we derive the expression of the MFPT in the energy-diffusion controlled regime with a power-law distribution. We discuss the finite barrier effect (i.e. thermal energy is not small with…
In the Hilbert space $H$, the inverse problem of determining the right-hand side of the abstract subdiffusion equation with the fractional Caputo derivative is considered. For the forward problem, a non-local in time condition $u(0)=u(T)$…
The first passage is a generic concept for quantifying when a random quantity such as the position of a diffusing molecule or the value of a stock crosses a preset threshold (target) for the first time. The last decade saw an enlightening…
In this work, we consider the numerical recovery of a spatially dependent diffusion coefficient in a subdiffusion model from distributed observations. The subdiffusion model involves a Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$…