Solutions of fractional nonlinear diffusion equation and first passage time: Influence of initial condition and diffusion coefficient

Jun Wang, Wen-Jun Zhang, Jin-Rong Liang, Pan Zhang and Fu-Yao Ren

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, issue 18, 4547-4552

Abstract: We investigate the solutions and the first passage time for anomalous diffusion processes governed by the fractional nonlinear diffusion equation with diffusion coefficient separable in time and space, D(t,x)=D(t)|x|−θ, subject to absorbing boundary condition and the conventional initial condition p(x,0)=δ(x−x0). We obtain explicit analytical expressions for the probability distribution, the first passage time distribution, the mean first passage time and the mean squared displacement, and discuss their behavior corresponding to different time dependent diffusion coefficients.

Keywords: Fractional nonlinear diffusion equation; Probability distribution; First passage time distribution; Mean first passage time; Mean squared displacement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.04.017

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