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Generalised fractional diffusion equations for subdiffusion on arbitrarily growing domains

Statistical Mechanics 2017-11-01 v2 Mathematical Physics Dynamical Systems math.MP

Abstract

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 subdiffusion. Many models of subdiffusion include a history dependence. This greatly confounds efforts to incorporate domain growth. Here we derive the fractional partial differential equations that govern subdiffusion on a growing domain, based on a Continuous Time Random Walk. This requires the introduction of a new, comoving, fractional derivative.

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@article{arxiv.1706.07168,
  title  = {Generalised fractional diffusion equations for subdiffusion on arbitrarily growing domains},
  author = {C. N. Angstmann and B. I. Henry and A. V. McGann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07168},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 1 figure

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