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For characterizing the Brownian motion in a bounded domain: $\Omega$, it is well-known that the boundary conditions of the classical diffusion equation just rely on the given information of the solution along the boundary of a domain; on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Weihua Deng , Buyang Li , Wenyi Tian , Pingwen Zhang

We adopt the integral definition of the fractional Laplace operator and analyze an optimal control problem for a fractional semilinear elliptic partial differential equation (PDE); control constraints are also considered. We establish the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Enrique Otarola

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

Spatial reaction-diffusion models have been employed to describe many emergent phenomena in biological systems. The modelling technique most commonly adopted in the literature implements systems of partial differential equations (PDEs),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-05 Christian A. Yates , Mark B. Flegg

We propose a methodology that combines generative latent diffusion models with physics-informed machine learning to generate solutions of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) conditioned on partial observations, which includes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Davide Gallon , Philippe von Wurstemberger , Patrick Cheridito , Arnulf Jentzen

We study a class of partial differential equations (PDEs) in the family of the so-called Euler-Poincar\'e differential systems, with the aim of developing a foundation for numerical algorithms of their solutions. This requires particular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Roberto Camassa , Dongyang Kuang , Long Lee

Systems of reaction-diffusion partial differential equations (RD-PDEs) are widely applied for modelling life science and physico-chemical phenomena. In particular, the coupling between diffusion and nonlinear kinetics can lead to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Maria Chiara D'Autilia , Ivonne Sgura , Valeria Simoncini

This paper provides a quantitative study of nonnegative solutions to nonlinear diffusion equations of porous medium-type of the form $\partial_t u + {\mathcal L}u^m=0$, $m>1$, where the operator ${\mathcal L}$ belongs to a general class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Matteo Bonforte , Alessio Figalli , Juan Luis Vazquez

This paper provides a new numerical strategy to solve fractional in space reaction-diffusion equations on bounded domains under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Using the matrix transform method the fractional Laplacian operator…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Lidia Aceto , Paolo Novati

We consider nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) for advection-diffusion processes which are augmented by an auxiliary parameter $\delta$ such that $\delta=0$ corresponds to linear advection-diffusion. We derive potentially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 T. Forrest Kieffer , Jakob Cupp , John S. Van Dyke , Paraj Titum , Michael L. Wall

We consider the integral definition of the fractional Laplacian and analyze a linear-quadratic optimal control problem for the so-called fractional heat equation; control constraints are also considered. We derive existence and uniqueness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Christian Glusa , Enrique Otarola

The purpose of this work is to introduce and analyze a numerical scheme to efficiently solve boundary value problems involving the spectral fractional Laplacian. The approach is based on a reformulation of the problem posed on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Johannes Pfefferer , Klemens Schürholz , Boris Vexler

We analyze a reaction coefficient identification problem for the spectral fractional powers of a symmetric, coercive, linear, elliptic, second-order operator in a bounded domain $\Omega$. We realize fractional diffusion as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Enrique Otarola , Tran Nhan Tam Quyen

The Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE) approach, now commonly used in spatial statistics to construct Gaussian random fields, is revisited from a mechanistic perspective based on the movement of microscopic particles, thereby…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-11 Lionel Roques , Denis Allard , Samuel Soubeyrand

The aim of this work is to give a broad panorama of the control properties of fractional diffusive models from a numerical analysis and simulation perspective. We do this by surveying several research results we obtained in the last years,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Umberto Biccari , Mahamadi Warma , Enrique Zuazua

An unsteady problem is considered for a space-fractional diffusion equation in a bounded domain. A first-order evolutionary equation containing a fractional power of an elliptic operator of second order is studied for general boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Petr N. Vabishchevich

We consider optimal control of fractional in time (subdiffusive, i.e., for $% 0<\gamma <1$) semilinear parabolic PDEs associated with various notions of diffusion operators in an unifying fashion. Under general assumptions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Harbir Antil , Ciprian G. Gal , Mahamadi Warma

We study well-posedness of degenerate mixed-type parabolic-hyperbolic equations $$ \partial_tu+\text{div}\big(f(u)\big)=\mathcal{L}[b(u)] $$ on bounded domains with general Dirichlet boundary/exterior conditions. The nonlocal diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Nathaël Alibaud , Jørgen Endal , Espen Jakobsen , Ola Mæhlen

We prove that any given function can be smoothly approximated by functions lying in the kernel of a linear operator involving at least one fractional component. The setting in which we work is very general, since it takes into account…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Alessandro Carbotti , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

The fractional Laplacian operator, $-(-\triangle)^{\frac{\alpha}{2}}$, appears in a wide class of physical systems, including L\'evy flights and stochastic interfaces. In this paper, we provide a discretized version of this operator which…

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