The time fractional diffusion equation is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the first-order time derivative with a fractional derivative of order β ∈ (0, 1) . The fundamental solution for the Cauchy problem is interpreted as a probability density of a selfsimilar non-Markovian stochastic process related to a phenomenon of subdiffusion (the variance grows in time sub-lin...

The Master Equation approach to model anomalous diffusion is considered. Anomalous diffusion in complex media can be described as the result of a superposition mechanism reflecting inhomogeneity and nonstationarity properties of the medium. For instance, when this superposition is applied to the time-fractional diffusion process, the resulting Master Equation emerges to be the governing equatio...

A new look at the fractional diffusion equation was done. Using unified derivative, a formulation proposed, and solved for three different order cases: neutral, dominant time, space. The solutions were expressed by generalizations of classic formulae used stable distributions. entropy paradox problem studied clarified through Rényi entropy: in extreme wave regime is −∞. In passing, Tsallis entr...

Fractional-order dynamics in physics, particularly when applied to diffusion, leads to an extension of the concept of Brownian motion through a generalization of the Gaussian probability function to what is termed anomalous diffusion. As magnetic resonance imaging is applied with increasing temporal and spatial resolution, the spin dynamics is being examined more closely; such examinations exte...

We deal with an inverse problem of simultaneously identifying the space-dependent diffusion coefficient and the source magnitude in the time fractional diffusion equation from viewpoint of numerics. Such simultaneous inversion problem is often of severe ill-posedness as compared with that of determining a single coefficient function. The forward problem is solved by employing an implicit finite...