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Many physical phenomena occur on domains that grow in time. When the timescales of the phenomena and domain growth are comparable, models must include the dynamics of the domain. A widespread intrinsically slow transport process is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-01 C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann

Many theoretical and experimental results show that solute transport in heterogeneous porous media exhibits multi-scaling behaviors. To describe such non-Fickian diffusions, this work provides a distributed order Hausdorff diffusion model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yingjie Liang , Wen Chen , Wei Xu , HongGuang Sun

In this paper, we develop a numerical algorithm for an inverse problem on determining fractional orders of time derivatives simultaneously in a coupled subdiffusion system. Following the theoretical uniqueness, we reformulate the order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yikan Liu

We study two generalizations of fractional variational problems by considering higher-order derivatives and a state time delay. We prove a higher-order integration by parts formula involving a Caputo fractional derivative of variable order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Dina Tavares , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We study Cauchy problems of fractional differential equations in both space and time variables by expressing the solution in terms of ``stochastic composition" of the solutions to two simpler problems. These Cauchy sub-problems respectively…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Fabrizio Cinque , Enzo Orsingher

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

In this work, an analogue of the Tricomi problem for equations of mixed type with a fractional derivative is investigated. In one part of the domain, the considered equation is a subdiffusion equation with a fractional derivative of order ?…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-30 R. R. Ashurov , R. T. Zunnunov

In this paper the inverse problem of determining the fractional orders in mixed-type equations is considered. In one part of the domain the considered equation is the subdiffusion equation with a fractional derivative in the sense of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-03 R. R. Ashurov , R. T. Zunnunov

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Pedro Aceves-Sanchez , Christian Schmeiser

We investigate evolution equations for anomalous diffusion employing fractional derivatives in space and time. Linkage between the space-time variables leads to a new type of fractional derivative operator. Fractional diffusion equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej J. Turski , Barbara Atamaniuk , Ewa Turska

We study an initial-boundary value problem of variable-order time-fractional diffusion equations in one space dimension. Based on the wellposedness of the proposed model and the smoothing properties of its solutions, which are shown to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Xiangcheng Zheng , Jin Cheng , Hong Wang

Distributed-order time-fractional wave equations appear in the modeling of wave propagation in viscoelastic media. The material characteristics of the medium are modeled through constitutive functions or distributions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Frederik Broucke , Ljubica Oparnica

The diffusion equation and its time-fractional counterpart can be obtained via the diffusion limit of continuous-time random walks with exponential and heavy-tailed waiting time distributions. The space dependent variable-order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang , Zhuang Xu

In this work we study the degenerate diffusion equation $\partial_{t}=x^{\alpha}a\left(x\right)\partial_{x}^{2}+b\left(x\right)\partial_{x}$ for $\left(x,t\right)\in\left(0,\infty\right)^{2}$, equipped with a Cauchy initial data and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Linan Chen , Ian Weih-Wadman

This paper deals with the investigation of the computational solutions of an unified fractional reaction-diffusion equation, which is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the time derivative of first order by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-05 R. K. Saxena , A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

This paper for the first time addresses the concepts of regional gradient observability for the Riemann-Liouville time fractional order diffusion system in an interested subregion of the whole domain without the knowledge of the initial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-09 Fudong Ge , YangQuan Chen , Chunhai Kou

The time-fractional diffusion equation is considered, where the time derivative is either of Caputo or Riemann-Liouville type. The solution of a general initial-boundary value problem with time-dependent boundary conditions over bounded and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 M. Rodrigo

This paper is devoted to describing a linear diffusion problem involving fractional-in-time derivatives and self-adjoint integro-differential space operators posed in bounded domains. One main concern of our paper is to deal with singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Hardy Chan , Juan Luis Vázquez , David Gómez-Castro

The object of this paper is to present a computable solution of a fractional partial differential equation associated with a Riemann-Liouville derivative of fractional order as the time-derivative and Riesz-Feller fractional derivative as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 R. K. Saxena , A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

In this paper the solutions $u_{\nu}=u_{\nu}(x,t)$ to fractional diffusion equations of order $0<\nu \leq 2$ are analyzed and interpreted as densities of the composition of various types of stochastic processes. For the fractional equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Enzo Orsingher , Luisa Beghin