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We formulate a numerical method to solve the porous medium type equation with fractional diffusion \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2} (u^m)=0 \] posed for $x\in \mathbb{R}^N$, $t>0$, with $m\geq 1$, $\sigma \in (0,2)$,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Félix del Teso , Juan Luis Vázquez

We present in this paper a rigorous method to derive the nonlinear Fokker-Planck (FP) equation of anomalous diffusion directly from a generalization of the principle of least action of Maupertuis proposed by Wang for smooth or quasi-smooth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Wei Li , Alexandre Wang , Alain Le Mehaute

The Fractional Diffusion Equation (FDE) is a mathematical model that describes anomalous transport phenomena characterized by non-local and long-range dependencies which deviate from the traditional behavior of diffusion. Solving this…

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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…

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This paper develops an abstract theory for subdifferential operators to give existence and uniqueness of solutions to the initial-boundary problem (P) for the nonlinear diffusion equation in an unbounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Takeshi Fukao , Shunsuke Kurima , Tomomi Yokota

The optimization of the usual entropy $S_1[p]=-\int du p(u) ln p(u)$ under appropriate constraints is closely related to the Gaussian form of the exact time-dependent solution of the Fokker-Planck equation describing an important class of…

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We present a numerical study of classical particles diffusing on a solid surface. The particles' motion is modeled by an underdamped Langevin equation with ordinary thermal noise. The particle-surface interaction is described by a periodic…

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We study a non-linear convective-diffusive equation, local in space and time, which has its background in the dynamics of the thickness of a wetting film. The presence of a non-linear diffusion predicts the existence of fronts as well as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Alex Hansen , Bo-Sture Skagerstam , Glenn Tørå

We consider the defocusing, energy subcritical wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = -|u|^{p-1} u$ in dimension $d \in \{3,4,5\}$ and prove the exterior scattering of solutions if $3\leq d \leq 5$ and $1+6/d<p<1+4/(d-2)$. More…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Ruipeng Shen

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 formulate a numerical method to solve the porous medium type equation with fractional diffusion \[\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+(-\Delta)^{1/2} (u^m)=0.\] The problem is posed in $x\in \mathbb{R}^N$, $m\geq 1$ and with nonnegative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Félix del Teso

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

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We study the propagation properties of nonnegative and bounded solutions of the class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear fractional diffusion: $u_{t} + (-\Delta)^s (u^m)=f(u)$. For all $0<s<1$ and $m> m_c=(N-2s)_+/N $, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Diana Stan , Juan Luis Vázquez

Anomalous diffusion occurs in many physical and biological phenomena, when the growth of the mean squared displacement (MSD) with time has an exponent different from one. We show that recurrent neural networks (RNN) can efficiently…

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For the fractional diffusion-wave equation with the Caputo-Dzhrbashyan fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (1,2)$ with respect to the time variable, we prove an analog of the principle of limiting amplitude (well-known for the wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Anatoly N. Kochubei

Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

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We explore the nature of anomalous diffusion of wave packets in disorder-free incommensurate multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The spectrum-averaged diffusion exponent is obtained by calculating the multifractal dimension of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shidong Wang , Milena Grifoni , Stephan Roche

The nonlinear theory of anomalous diffusion is based on particle interactions giving an explicit microscopic description of diffusive processes leading to sub-, normal, or super-diffusion as a result competitive effects between attractive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko

Anomalous diffusion phenomena are ubiquitous in complex media, such as biological tissues. A wide class of sub-diffusive phenomena phenomena is described by the time-fractional diffusion equation. The paper investigates the case of…

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We study the diffusion equation with an appropriate change of variables. This equation is in general a partial differential equation (PDE). With the self-similar and related Ansat\"atze we transform the PDE of diffusion to an ordinary…

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