We examine the short and long-time behaviors of time-fractional diffusion equations with variable space-dependent order. More precisely, we describe the time-evolution of the solution to these equations as the time parameter goes either to zero or to infinity.
We investigate diffusion equations with time-fractional derivatives of space-dependent variable order. We examine the well-posedness issue and prove that the space-dependent variable order coefficient is uniquely determined among other coefficients of these equations, by the knowledge of a suitable time-sequence of partial Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps.
In this paper we obtain the precise description of the asymptotic behavior of the solution $u$ of $$ partial_t u+(-Delta)^{frac{theta}{2}}u=0quadmbox{in}quad{bf R}^Ntimes(0,infty), qquad u(x,0)=varphi(x)quadmbox{in}quad{bf R}^N, $$ where $0<theta<2$ and $varphiin L_K:=L^1({bf R}^N,,(1+|x|)^K,dx)$ with $Kge 0$. Furthermore, we develop the arguments in [15] and [18] and establish a method to obtain the asymptotic expansions of the solutions to a nonlinear fractional diffusion equation $$ partial_t u+(-Delta)^{frac{theta}{2}}u=|u|^{p-1}uquadmbox{in}quad{bf R}^Ntimes(0,infty), $$ where $0<theta<2$ and $p>1+theta/N$.
This paper is devoted to discussing the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to time-fractional elliptic equations having time-dependent variable coefficients. To obtain the main result, our strategy is to combine the Galerkin method, a basic inequality for the fractional derivative of convex Lyapunov candidate functions, the Yoshida approximation sequence and the weak compactness argument.
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 generalized fractional time-derivative defined by Hilfer (2000), the space derivative of second order by the Riesz-Feller fractional derivative and adding the function phi(x,t) which is a nonlinear function overning reaction. The solution is derived by the application of the Laplace and Fourier transforms in a compact and closed form in terms of the H-function. The main result obtained in this paper provides an elegant extension of the fundamental solution for the space-time fractional diffusion equation obtained earlier by Mainardi et al. (2001, 2005) and a result very recently given by Tomovski et al. (2011). Computational representation of the fundamental solution is also obtained explicitly. Fractional order moments of the distribution are deduced. At the end, mild extensions of the derived results associated with a finite number of Riesz-Feller space fractional derivatives are also discussed.
The large time behavior of zero mass solutions to the Cauchy problem for a convection-diffusion equation. We provide conditions on the size and shape of the initial datum such that the large time asymptotics of solutions is given either by the derivative of the Guass-Weierstrass kernel or by a self-similar solution or by a hyperbolic N-wave