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We consider a fractional diffusion equations of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ whose source term is singular in time: $(\partial_t^\alpha+A)u(x,t)=\mu(t)f(x)$, $(x,t)\in\Omega\times(0,T)$, where $\mu$ belongs to a Sobolev space of negative order.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

We study the inverse problem for the fractional Laplace equation with multiple nonlinear lower order terms. We show that the direct problem is well-posed and the inverse problem is uniquely solvable. More specifically, the unknown…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-18 Ru-Yu Lai , Laurel Ohm

This paper derives physically meaningful boundary conditions for fractional diffusion equations, using a mass balance approach. Numerical solutions are presented, and theoretical properties are reviewed, including well-posedness and steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Boris Baeumer , Mihály Kovács , Mark M. Meerschaert , Harish Sankaranarayanan

Inverse problem to determine simultaneously a general space- and time-dependent source and an initial state in a fractional diffusion equation from an {\it a posteriori} measurement of the normal derivative of the state on a portion of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jaan Janno

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the inverse random source problem for the time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Given the random source, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Xiaoli Feng , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

We begin with a treatment of the Caputo time-fractional diffusion equation, by using the Laplace transform, to obtain a Volterra intego-differential equation where we may examine the weakly singular nature of this convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Wesley Davis , Richard Noren , Ke Shi

In this paper invariant subspace method has been employed for solving linear and non-linear fractional partial differential equations involving Caputo derivative. A variety of illustrative examples are solved to demonstrate the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Sangita Choudhary , Varsha Daftardar-Gejji

In this article, we consider the space-time fractional (nonlocal) equation characterizing the so-called "double-scale" anomalous diffusion $$\partial_t^\beta u(t, x) = -(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u(t,x) - (-\Delta)^{\gamma/2}u(t,x) \ \ t> 0, \…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Ngartelbaye Guerngar , Erkan Nane , Ramazan Tinatztepe , Suleyman Ulusoy , Hans Werner Van Wyk

We investigate the exact enlarged controllability and optimal control of a fractional diffusion equation in Caputo sense. This is done through a new definition of enlarged controllability that allows us to extend available contributions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Touria Karite , Ali Boutoulout , Delfim F. M. Torres

We study some inverse problems for time-fractional Schr\"odinger equations involving the Caputo derivative of fractional order $\alpha \in (0,1)$. We prove refined uniqueness results from sets of positive Lebesgue measure for various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 S. E. Chorfi , F. Et-tahri , L. Maniar , M. Yamamoto

In this work we investigate an inverse coefficient problem for the one-dimensional subdiffusion model, which involves a Caputo fractional derivative in time. The inverse problem is to determine two coefficients and multiple parameters (the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Siyu Cen , Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Rachid Zarouf , Zhi Zhou

This article proves the uniqueness for two kinds of inverse problems of identifying fractional orders in diffusion equations with multiple time-fractional derivatives by pointwise observation. By means of eigenfunction expansion and Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , Masahiro Yamamoto

Problems of calculus of variations with variable endpoints cannot be solved without transversality conditions. Here, we establish such type of conditions for fractional variational problems with the Caputo derivative. We consider: the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Ricardo Almeida , Agnieszka B. Malinowska

We consider the determination of an unknown potential $q(x)$ form a fractional diffusion equation subject to overposed lateral boundary data. We show that this data allows recovery of two spectral sequences for the associated inverse…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 William Rundell , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this article, we consider the space-time Fractional (nonlocal) diffusion equation $$\partial_t^\beta u(t,x)={\mathtt{L}_D^{\alpha_1,\alpha_2}} u(t,x), \ \ t\geq 0, \ x\in D, $$ where $\partial_t^\beta$ is the Caputo fractional derivative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Ngartelbaye Guerngar , Erkan Nane , Süleyman Ulusoy , Hans Werner Van Wyk

We consider an inverse boundary value problem for diffusion equations with multiple fractional time derivatives. We prove the uniqueness in determining a number of fractional time-derivative terms, the orders of the derivatives and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , O. Y. Imanuvilov , Masahiro Yamamoto

In this work, we study the inverse problem of recovering a potential coefficient in the subdiffusion model, which involves a Djrbashian-Caputo derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time, from the terminal data. We prove that the inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-09 Bangti Jin , Zhi Zhou

The fractional reaction diffusion equation u_t + Au = g(u) is discussed, where A is a fractional differential operator on the real line with order \alpha between 0 and 2, the C^1 function g vanishes at 0 and 1, and either g is non-negative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-04 Hans Engler

We review some recent results of the fractional variational calculus. Necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for functionals with a Lagrangian containing left and right Caputo derivatives are given. Several problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-29 Ricardo Almeida , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

Fractional Dzherbashian-Nersesian operator is considered and three famous fractional order derivatives namely Riemann-Liouville, Caputo and Hilfer derivatives are shown to be special cases of the earlier one. The expression for Laplace…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Anwar Ahmad , Muhammad Ali , Salman A. Malik