Some aspects of fractional diffusion equations of single and distributed order

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 187, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 295-305

  Mainardi, Francesco ^a   Pagnini, Gianni ^b   Gorenflo, Rudolf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Asymptotic power laws; Fractional derivatives; Integral transforms; Mellin Barnes integrals; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANOMALOUS DIFFUSION; ASYMPTOTIC POWER LAWS; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMS; MELLIN-BARNES INTEGRALS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 34247367101     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.08.126     Document Type: Article

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