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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

The partial differential equation of Gaussian diffusion is generalized by using the time-fractional derivative of distributed order between 0 and 1, in both the Riemann-Liouville (R-L) and the Caputo (C) sense. For a general distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-27 Francesco Mainardi , Antonio Mura , Gianni Pagnini , Rudolf Gorenflo

The motion of contaminant particles through complex environments such as fractured rocks or porous sediments is often characterized by anomalous diffusion: the spread of the transported quantity is found to grow sublinearly in time due to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Marseguerra , A. Zoia

Integer-order differential operators were originally used to describe local and isotropic effects, in both space and time. However, in fields like biology, the modelling of complex phenomena with spatial heterogeneity necessitates more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Cypres Verbeeck , Nikolaos Sfakianakis

The generalised Boltzmann equation which treats the combined localised and delocalised nature of transport present in certain materials is extended to accommodate time-dependent fields. In particular, AC fields are shown to be a means to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-01 Alex D. C. Myhill , Peter W. Stokes , Bronson Philippa , Ronald D. White

Uchaikin suggested a mathematical model of an anomalous diffusion in a space was suggested. This model origins in an investigation of processes in complex systems with variable structure: glasses, liquid crystals, biopolymers, proteins and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Sh. Tsitsiashvili , A. E. Yashin

Fractional differential approach to cosmic ray physics problems is discussed. A short review in this field is given, some results are represented, analyzed and criticized. A new model called the bounded anomalous diffusion model is offered.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Vladimir V. Uchaikin , Renat T. Sibatov

Anomalous short- and long-time self-diffusion of non-overlapping fractal particles on a percolation cluster with spreading dimension $1.67(2)$ is studied by dynamic Monte Carlo simulations. As reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 097801…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Marco Heinen

In a continuous time random walk (CTRW), each random jump follows a random waiting time. CTRW scaling limits are time-changed processes that model anomalous diffusion. The outer process describes particle jumps, and the non-Markovian inner…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Mark M. Meerschaert , Erkan Nane , Yimin Xiao

In this paper we present stochastic foundations of fractional dynamics driven by fractional material derivative of distributed order-type. Before stating our main result we present the stochastic scenario which underlies the dynamics given…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Marcin Magdziarz , Marek Teuerle

Fractional Brownian motion is a Gaussian stochastic process with long-range correlations in time; it has been shown to be a useful model of anomalous diffusion. Here, we investigate the effects of mutual interactions in an ensemble of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jonathan House , Rashad Bakhshizada , Skirmantas Janušonis , Ralf Metzler , Thomas Vojta

The studying of anomalous diffusion by pulsed field gradient (PFG) diffusion technique still faces challenges. Two different research groups have proposed modified Bloch equation for anomalous diffusion. However, these equations have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Guoxing Lin

Space fractional convection diffusion equation describes physical phenomena where particles or energy (or other physical quantities) are transferred inside a physical system due to two processes: convection and superdiffusion. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Minghua Chen , Weihua Deng

This paper deals with the investigation of the solution of an unified fractional reaction-diffusion equation associated with the Caputo derivative as the time-derivative and Riesz-Feller fractional derivative as the space-derivative. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-16 H. J. Haubold , A. M. Mathai , R. K. Saxena

Fractional diffusion equations are widely used to describe anomalous diffusion processes where the characteristic displacement scales as a power of time. For processes lacking such scaling the corresponding description may be given by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. M. Sokolov , A. V. Chechkin , J. Klafter

We study the first passage time (FPT) problem in Levy type of anomalous diffusion. Using the recently formulated fractional Fokker-Planck equation, we obtain an analytic expression for the FPT distribution which, in the large passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan , Mingzhou Ding

We find for the first time the asymptotic representation of the solution to the space dependent variable order fractional diffusion and Fokker-Planck equations. We identify a new advection term that causes ultra-slow spatial aggregation of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-14 Sergei Fedotov , Daniel Han

Two models for quantum Brownian motion - the Oscillator Bath (OB) model and the Random-Band-Matrix (RBM) model - are compared and a relation between the spectral density function I(w) and the variance (Vab)^2 is established. The extension…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Lutz

Transport by normal diffusion can be decomposed into the so-called hydrodynamic modes which relax exponentially toward the equilibrium state. In chaotic systems with two degrees of freedom, the fine scale structure of these hydrodynamic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Gaspard , I. Claus , T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman

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