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We study an initial-boundary value problem of variable-order time-fractional diffusion equations in one space dimension. Based on the wellposedness of the proposed model and the smoothing properties of its solutions, which are shown to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Xiangcheng Zheng , Jin Cheng , Hong Wang

A time-space fractional reaction-diffusion equation in a bounded domain is considered. Under some conditions on the initial data, we show that solutions may experience blow-up in a finite time. However, for realistic initial conditions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Ahmed Alsaedi , Mokhtar Kirane , Berikbol T. Torebek

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang , Zhuang Xu

In this paper we study $g$-fractional diffusion on bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with absorbing boundary conditions. We show the explicit representation of the solution and then we study the first passage time distribution, showing the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-09 L. Angelani , R. Garra

Fractional derivatives can be used to model time delays in a diffusion process. When the order of the fractional derivative is distributed over the unit interval, it is useful for modeling a mixture of delay sources. In some special cases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Jebessa B. Mijena , Erkan Nane

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Qian Luo , Aiguo Xiao , Xiaoqiang Yan , Jingmin Xia

In the paper, we study spatially distributed particle systems whose time evolution is governed by vanishing diffusion in space $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, and by size-continuous fragmentation and coagulation processes with unbounded rates. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Sergey Shindin

In this paper, we investigate the solutions for a generalized fractional diffusion equation that extends some known diffusion equations by taking a spatial time-dependent diffusion coefficient and an external force into account, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Long-jin Lv , Jian-Bin Xiao , Lin Zhang

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

The time fractional diffusion equation is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the first-order time derivative with a fractional derivative of order $\beta \in (0,1)$. The fundamental solution for the Cauchy problem is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-27 Francesco Mainardi , Gianni Pagnini , Rudolf Gorenflo

Distributed-order time-fractional wave equations appear in the modeling of wave propagation in viscoelastic media. The material characteristics of the medium are modeled through constitutive functions or distributions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Frederik Broucke , Ljubica Oparnica

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Arshyn Altybay

We consider a class of fractional time stochastic equation defined on a bounded domain and show that the presence of the time derivative induces a significant change in the qualitative behaviour of the solutions. This is in sharp contrast…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Mohammud Foondun

We consider diffusion type equations with a distributed order derivative in the time variable. This derivative is defined as the integral in $\alpha$ of the Caputo-Dzhrbashian fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with a certain…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Anatoly N. Kochubei

A finite difference numerical method is investigated for fractional order diffusion problems in one space dimension. For this, a mathematical model is developed to incorporate homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary conditions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Béla J. Szekeres , Ferenc Izsák

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 prove sharp estimates for the decay in time of solutions to a rather general class of non-local in time subdiffusion equations on a bounded domain subject to a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. Important special cases are the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Vicente Vergara , Rico Zacher

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

The time-fractional diffusion equation is considered, where the time derivative is either of Caputo or Riemann-Liouville type. The solution of a general initial-boundary value problem with time-dependent boundary conditions over bounded and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 M. Rodrigo

In this work we study partial differential equations defined in a domain that moves in time according to the flow of a given ordinary differential equation, starting out of a given initial domain. We first derive a formulation for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Manuel Fernando Cortez , Aníbal Rodríguez-Bernal