Fractional diffusion equations are useful for applications where a cloud of particles spreads faster than the classical equation predicts. In a fractional diffusion equation, the second derivative in the spatial variable is replaced by a fractional derivative of order less than two. The resulting solutions spread faster than the classical solutions and may exhibit asymmetry, depending on the fr...

Fractional-order diffusion equations are viewed as generalizations of classical diffusion equations, treating super-diffusive flow processes. In this paper, in order to solve the fractional advection-diffusion equation, the fractional characteristic finite difference method is presented, which is based on the method of characteristics (MOC) and fractional finite difference (FD) procedures. The ...

Abstract A fractional derivative is a temporally nonlocal operation which computationally intensive due to inclusion of the accumulated contribution function values at past times. In order lessen computational load while maintaining accuracy derivative, novel numerical method for Caputo proposed. The present adaptive memory significantly reduces requirement storing time points and also improves...

This work explores different particle-based approaches to the simulation of one-dimensional fractional sub-diffusion equations in unbounded domains. We rely on smooth particle approximations, and consider four methods for estimating the fractional diffusion term. The first method is based on a direct differentiation of the particle representation; it follows the Riesz definition of the fraction...

Numerical identification of diffusion parameters in a nonlinear convection–diffusion equation is studied. This partial differential equation arises as the saturation equation in the fractional flow formulation of the two–phase porous media flow equations. The forward problem is discretized with the finite difference method, and the identification problem is formulated as a constrained minimizat...

Fractional differential equations have attracted considerable interest because of their ability to model anomalous transport phenomena. Space fractional diffusion equations with a nonlinear reaction term have been presented and used to model many problems of practical interest. In this paper, a two-dimensional Riesz space fractional diffusion equation with a nonlinear reaction term (2D-RSFDE-NR...

in this paper, we introduce a family of fractional-order chebyshev functions based on the classical chebyshev polynomials. we calculate and derive the operational matrix of derivative of fractional order $gamma$ in the caputo sense using the fractional-order chebyshev functions. this matrix yields to low computational cost of numerical solution of fractional order differential equations to the ...