Fractional calculus in statistical physics: The case of time fractional diffusion equation

Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Paradisi, Paolo ^a,b  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^b BCAM BASQUE CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Continuous time random walk; Fractional calculus; Renewal theory; Scaling; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962579051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20380909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1685/journal.caim.530     Document Type: Article

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