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We study normal diffusive and subdiffusive processes in a harmonic potential (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process) on a uniformly growing/contracting domain. Our starting point is a recently derived fractional Fokker-Planck equation, which covers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-31 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste , E. Abad

In recent years, several experiments highlighted a new type of diffusion anomaly, which was called Brownian yet non-Gaussian diffusion. In systems displaying this behavior, the mean squared displacement of the diffusing particles grows…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-01 Adrian Pacheco-Pozo , Igor M. Sokolov

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation (FFPE) [R. Metzler, E. Barkai, J. Klafter, Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, 3563 (1999)] describes an anomalous sub diffusive behavior of a particle in an external force field. In this paper we present the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Barkai

For the first time, the diffusion phase diagram in highly confined colloidal systems, predicted by Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW), is experimentally obtained. Temporal and spatial fractional exponents, $\alpha$ and $\mu$, introduced…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Palombo , A. Gabrielli , S. De Santis , C. Cametti , G. Ruocco , S. Capuani

We consider a simple linear reversible isomerization reaction A <--> B under subdiffusion described by continuous time random walks (CTRW). The reactants' transformations take place independently on the motion and are described by constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Sagues , V. P. Shkilev , I. M. Sokolov

Intermittent stochastic processes appear in a wide field, such as chemistry, biology, ecology, and computer science. This paper builds up the theory of intermittent continuous time random walk (CTRW) and L\'{e}vy walk, in which the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-20 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

A generalized persistent random walk (GPRW) model to study anomalous particle diffusion influenced by angular heterogeneity is presented. Consider the motion of a particle is composed of many consecutive straight line segments. At the end…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Kejie Chen , Bogdan Epureanu

In physics, phenomena of diffusion and wave propagation have great relevance; these physical processes are governed in the simplest cases by partial differential equations of order 1 and 2 in time, respectively. By replacing the time…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Armando Consiglio , Francesco Mainardi

Fractional Brownian motion, a stochastic process with long-time correlations between its increments, is a prototypical model for anomalous diffusion. We analyze fractional Brownian motion in the presence of a reflecting wall by means of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-21 Alexander H. O. Wada , Thomas Vojta

Levy flights and fractional Brownian motion (fBm) have become exemplars of the heavy tailed jumps and long-ranged memory seen in space physics and elsewhere. Natural time series frequently combine both effects, and Linear Fractional Stable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-20 Nicholas W. Watkins , Daniel Credgington , Raul Sanchez , Sandra C. Chapman

We address the problem of diffusion on a comb whose teeth display a varying length. Specifically, the length $\ell$ of each tooth is drawn from a probability distribution displaying the large-$\ell$ behavior $P(\ell) \sim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , A. Baumgaertner

Giant diffusion, where the diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle in a periodic potential with an external force is significantly enhanced by the external force, is a non-trivial non-equilibrium phenomenon. We propose a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Kento Iida , Andreas Dechant , Takuma Akimoto

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

Superslow diffusion, i.e., the long-time diffusion of particles whose mean-square displacement (variance) grows slower than any power of time, is studied in the framework of the decoupled continuous-time random walk model. We show that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-24 S. I. Denisov , H. Kantz

The relation between the expectation values computed in the random walk theory, and the heat kernel method for the diffusion equation is explained concretely. The random walk is also realized by simulations and their statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-21 Kenichiro Aoki , Takahisa Mitsui

In this paper the multi-dimensional random walk models governed by distributed fractional order differential equations and multi-term fractional order differential equations are constructed. The scaling limits of these random walks to a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sabir Umarov , Stanly Steinberg

We study invariant solutions of a certain class of time-fractional diffusion-wave equations with variable coefficients via Lie symmetry analysis. In physics, the fractional diffusion equation describes transport dynamics that are governed…

We investigate three different methods for systematically approximating the diffusion coefficient of a deterministic random walk on the line which contains dynamical correlations that change irregularly under parameter variation. Capturing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Georgie Knight , Rainer Klages

In this survey paper we consider some applications of the Wright function with special emphasis of its key role in the partial differential equations of fractional order. It was found that the Green function of the time-fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudolf Gorenflo , Yuri Luchko , Francesco Mainardi

In this article, we present new random walk methods to solve flow and transport problems in unsaturated/saturated porous media, including coupled flow and transport processes in soils, heterogeneous systems modeled through random hydraulic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Nicolae Suciu , Davide Illiano , Alexander Prechtel , Florin A. Radu