Particle tracking for fractional diffusion with two time scales

Computers and Mathematics with Applications

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1078-1086

  Meerschaert, Mark M ^a   Zhang, Yong ^b   Baeumer, Boris ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Lagrangian solver; Langevin analysis; Time fractional diffusion equation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; ANALYSIS TIME; CAUCHY PROBLEMS; FIRST DERIVATIVE; FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION; FRACTIONAL EQUATION; FRACTURE FLOW; FREE PARTICLES; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; INVERSE TRANSFORMS; LAGRANGIAN; LANGEVIN; LANGEVIN EQUATION; MODEL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-MARKOVIAN; PARTICLE LOCATIONS; PARTICLE TRACKING; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROCESS MODEL; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL DIMENSION; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; SUBORDINATORS; TIME CHANGE; TIME DERIVATIVE; TIME-FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION; TWO TIME SCALE; UPSCALING; VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; POROUS MATERIALS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 74149090927     PISSN: 08981221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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