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A version of fractional diffusion on bounded domains, subject to 'homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions' is derived from a kinetic transport model with homogeneous inflow boundary conditions. For nonconvex domains, the result differs…

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In this work we study the transition from normal to anomalous diffusion of Brownian particles on disordered potentials. The potential model consists of a series of "potential hills" (defined on unit cell of constant length) whose heights…

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The chaotic diffusion for particles moving in a time dependent potential well is described by using two different procedures: (i) via direct evolution of the mapping describing the dynamics and ; (ii) by the solution of the diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Edson D. Leonel , Celia Mayumi Kuwana , Makoto Yoshida , Juliano Antonio de Oliveira

We propose a model of sub-diffusion in which an external force is acting on a particle at all times not only at the moment of jump. The implication of this assumption is the dependence of the random trapping time on the force with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-16 Sergei Fedotov , Nickolay Korabel

A fractional diffusion equation based on Riemann-Liouville fractional derivatives is solved exactly. The initial values are given as fractional integrals. The solution is obtained in terms of $H$-functions. It differs from the known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Hilfer

Recently a new type of Kramers-Fokker-Planck Equation has been proposed [R. Friedrich et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 96}, 230601 (2006)] describing anomalous diffusion in external potentials. In the present paper the explicit cases of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Eule , R. Friedrich , F. Jenko

In the present work, we investigate the potential of fractional derivatives to model atmospheric dispersion of pollutants. We propose simple fractional differential equation models for the steady state spatial distribution of concentration…

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For the particles undergoing the anomalous diffusion with different waiting time distributions for different internal states, we derive the Fokker-Planck and Feymann-Kac equations, respectively, describing positions of the particles and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

We consider the evolution of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice in any dimension and subject to a potential consisting of a periodic part and a random part that fluctuates stochastically in time. If the random potential evolves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Jeffrey Schenker , F. Zak Tilocco , Shiwen Zhang

We present a formalism for obtaining the statistical properties of functionals and inverse functionals of the paths of a particle diffusing in a one-dimensional quenched random potential. We demonstrate the implementation of the formalism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjib Sabhapandit , Satya N. Majumdar , Alain Comtet

We investigate the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for particle diffusion in a simple model for disordered media by assuming that the local diffusivity is both fluctuating in time and has a deterministic average growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. G. Cherstvy , R. Metzler

Application of fractional calculus to the description of anomalous diffusion and relaxation processes in complex media provided one of the most impressive impulses to the development of statistical physics during the last decade. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-13 A. E. Sitnitsky

Mass transport problems are ubiquitous in diverse fields of physics and engineering. With the development of fractional calculus, many have taken to studying problems of fractional mass transport either through numerical simulations or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Nathaniel G. Hermann , M. Shane Hutson

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with stationary, long-time correlated increments and is frequently used to model anomalous diffusion processes. We study numerically fractional Brownian motion confined to a finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-22 T. Guggenberger , G. Pagnini , T. Vojta , R. Metzler

Deriving evolution equations accounting for both anomalous diffusion and reactions is notoriously difficult, even in the simplest cases. In contrast to normal diffusion, reaction kinetics cannot be incorporated into evolution equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-23 Sean D Lawley

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 investigate the behavior of the time derivatives of the solution to a linear time-fractional, advection-diffusion-reaction equation, allowing space- and time-dependent coefficients as well as initial data that may have low regularity.…

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The problem of anomalous diffusion in momentum space is considered for plasma-like systems on the basis of a new collision integral, which is appropriate for consideration of the probability transition function (PTF) with long tails in…

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Numerical solutions of a non-Fickian diffusion equation belonging to a hyperbolic type are presented in one space dimension. The Brownian particle modelled by this diffusion equation is subjected to a symmetric periodic potential whose…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Adérito Araújo , Amal K. Das , Cidália Neves , Ercília Sousa

We show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of a subdiffusive intermittent map is a fractal function of control parameters. A modified continuous time random walk theory yields its coarse functional form and correctly describes a…

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