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Fractional calculus has been used to describe physical systems with complexity. Here, we show that a fractional calculus approach can restore or include complexity in any physical systems that can be described by partial differential…

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In this paper, we first propose an unconditionally stable implicit difference scheme for solving generalized time-space fractional diffusion equations (GTSFDEs) with variable coefficients. The numerical scheme utilizes the $L1$-type formula…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Xian-Ming Gu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Yong-Liang Zhao , Pin Lyu , Bruno Carpentieri

In this paper, a higher order finite difference scheme is proposed for Generalized Fractional Diffusion Equations (GFDEs). The fractional diffusion equation is considered in terms of the generalized fractional derivatives (GFDs) which uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Kamlesh Kumar , Rajesh K. Pandey

This paper provides a finite difference discretization for the backward Feynman-Kac equation, governing the distribution of functionals of the path for a particle undergoing both reaction and diffusion [Hou and Deng, J. Phys. A: Math.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Daxin Nie , Jing Sun , Weihua Deng

Recently, fractional derivatives have been employed to analyze various systems in engineering, physics, finance and hidrology. For instance, they have been used to investigate anomalous diffusion processes which are present in different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-11-28 Kwok Sau Fa , E. K. Lenzi

In this paper, we present a numerical solution to an ordinary differential equation of a fractional order in one-dimensional space. The solution to this equation can describe a steady state of the process of anomalous diffusion. The process…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Mariusz Ciesielski , Jacek Leszczynski

This article presents a finite element scheme with Newton's method for solving the time-fractional nonlinear diffusion equation. For time discretization, we use the fractional Crank-Nicolson scheme based on backward Euler convolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Dileep Kumar , Sudhakar Chaudhary , V. V. K Srinivas Kumar

The fractional Feynman-Kac equations describe the distribution of functionals of non-Brownian motion, or anomalous diffusion, including two types called the forward and backward fractional Feynman-Kac equations, where the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Jiahui Hu , Jungang Wang , Zhanbin Yuan , Zongze Yang , Yufeng Nie

This paper is concerned with analysis of coupled fractional reaction-diffusion equations. It provides analytical comparison for the fractional and regular reaction-diffusion systems. As an example, the reaction-diffusion model with cubic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasyl Gafiychuk , Bohdan Datsko , Vitaliy Meleshko

We present a stochastic method for efficiently computing the solution of time-fractional partial differential equations (fPDEs) that model anomalous diffusion problems of the subdiffusive type. After discretizing the fPDE in space, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Nicolas L. Guidotti , Juan Acebrón , José Monteiro

In the present article, an approach to find the exact solution of the fractional Fokker-Planck equation is presented. It is based on transforming it to a system of first-order partial differential equation via Hopf transformation, together…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-10 H. I. Abdel-Gawad , N. H. Sweilam , S. M. AL-Mekhlafi , D. Baleanu

The first part of this paper introduces sufficient conditions to determine conservation laws of diffusion equations of arbitrary fractional order in time. Numerical methods that satisfy a discrete analogue of these conditions have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Angelamaria Cardone , Gianluca Frasca-Caccia

Lie group method provides an efficient tool to solve a differential equation. This paper suggests a fractional partner for fractional partial differential equations using a fractional characteristic method. A space-time fractional diffusion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Guo-cheng Wu

The linearization principle states that the stability (or instability) of solutions to a suitable linearization of a nonlinear problem implies the stability (or instability) of solutions to the original nonlinear problem. In this work, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Sofwah Ahmad , Szymon Cygan , Grzegorz Karch

The problem of anomalous diffusion in momentum (velocity) space is considered based on the master equation and the appropriate probability transition function (PTF). The approach recently developed by the author for coordinate space, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. A. Trigger

In this paper, a two-sided variable-coefficient space-fractional diffusion equation with fractional Neumann boundary condition is considered. To conquer the weak singularity caused by nonlocal space-fractional differential operators, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Meijie Kong , Hongfei Fu

We develop a fully discrete scheme for time-fractional diffusion equations by using a finite difference method in time and a finite element method in space. The fractional derivatives are used in Caputo sense. Stability and error estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Ismail Jamiai , Delfim F. M. Torres

Fractional kinetic equations employ non-integer calculus to model anomalous relaxation and diffusion in many systems. While this approach is well explored, it so far failed to describe an important class of transport in disordered systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai

In this article we study the numerical approximation of a variable coefficient fractional diffusion equation. Using a change of variable, the variable coefficient fractional diffusion equation is transformed into a constant coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Xiangcheng Zheng , V. J. Ervin , Hong Wang

We explain how the invariant subspace method can be extended to a scalar and coupled system of time-space fractional partial differential equations. The effectiveness and applicability of the method have been illustrated through time-space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 P Prakash