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Nonlinear and Linear Equation of Gas Diffusion in Coal—Theory and Applications

  • Marek Gawor,
  • Norbert Skoczylas,
  • Anna Pajdak and
  • Mateusz Kudasik

31 May 2021

The authors derived the analytical solution to diffusion equations. The solution requires linearization of diffusion equations, as well as developing the obtained expression into a series. In particular, the result of the first procedure is highly de...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,916 Views
11 Pages

Intermittent Motion, Nonlinear Diffusion Equation and Tsallis Formalism

  • Ervin K. Lenzi,
  • Luciano R. Da Silva,
  • Marcelo K. Lenzi,
  • Maike A. F. Dos Santos and ,
  • Haroldo V. Ribeiro and
  • Luiz R. Evangelista
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 January 2017

We investigate an intermittent process obtained from the combination of a nonlinear diffusion equation and pauses. We consider the porous media equation with reaction terms related to the rate of switching the particles from the diffusive mode to the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropic Aspects of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Classical and Quantum Mechanical Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
292 Views
16 Pages

It is well known that meshless methods are effective for solving fractional differential equations on both regular and irregular domains. However, many commonly used basis functions such as Legendre wavelets and B-splines are naturally defined on rec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Modeling and Computation, Second Edition)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,649 Views
10 Pages

We investigate the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear fractional diffusion equation, which is modified using the time-fractional hyper-Bessel derivative. The source function is a gradient source of Hamilton–Jacobi type. The main objective of our cu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Differential Operators and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,873 Views
21 Pages

In this paper, we consider a direct problem and an inverse problem involving a nonlinear fractional diffusion equation, which can be applied to many physical situations. The equation contains a Caputo fractional derivative, a symmetric uniformly elli...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,341 Views
15 Pages

Combination of Multigrid with Constraint Data for Inverse Problem of Nonlinear Diffusion Equation

  • Tao Liu,
  • Di Ouyang,
  • Lianjun Guo,
  • Ruofeng Qiu and ,
  • Yunfei Qi,
  • Wu Xie,
  • Qiang Ma and
  • Chao Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

27 June 2023

This paper delves into a rapid and accurate numerical solution for the inverse problem of the nonlinear diffusion equation in the context of multiphase porous media flow. For the realization of this, the combination of the multigrid method with const...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inverse Problems and Imaging: Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
478 Views
6 Pages

14 March 2026

We investigate a nonlinear convection—diffusion equation involving a non-polynomial square-root flux. By applying a travelling-wave reduction and introducing a structurally motivated square-root transformation, we show that the resulting ordina...

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  • Open Access
958 Views
21 Pages

25 February 2026

This study presents a higher-order uniformly convergent numerical method for a singularly perturbed nonlinear reaction–diffusion equation. The quasilinearization technique is used to transform a nonlinear term into a linear boundary value probl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear Analysis and Boundary Value Problems, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,979 Views
13 Pages

30 August 2021

The instability of traveling pulses in nonlinear diffusion problems is inspected on the example of Gunn domains in semiconductors. Mathematically, the problem is reduced to the calculation of the “energy” of the ground state in the Schrödinger equati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dedication to Professor Michael Tribelsky: 50 Years in Physics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,829 Views
15 Pages

Inverse Problem for the Nonlinear Convection–Diffusion Equation by Using the Multigrid Method and Constraint Data

  • Shuai Wang,
  • Shiyi Ling,
  • Heyang Chao,
  • Yunfei Qi and ,
  • Wenwen Zhang,
  • Qiang Ma and
  • Tao Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 August 2024

In the article, we propose a combination method based on the multigrid method and constraint data to solve the inverse problem in the context of the nonlinear convection–diffusion equation in the multiphase porous media flow. The inverse proble...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods in Analysis and Applications, 3rd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,349 Views
20 Pages

In this paper, we study the nonlinear Riesz space-fractional convection–diffusion equation over a finite domain in two dimensions with a reaction term. The Crank–Nicolson difference method for the temporal and the weighted–shifted G...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,481 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2023

We consider a class of nonlinear integro-differential equations that model degenerate nonlocal diffusion. We investigate whether the strong maximum principle is valid for this nonlocal equation. For degenerate parabolic PDEs, the strong maximum princ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Difference, Functional, and Related Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,757 Views
22 Pages

12 January 2022

The paper deals with a nonlinear second-order one-dimensional evolutionary equation related to applications and describes various diffusion, filtration, convection, and other processes. The particular cases of this equation are the well-known porous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Partial Differential Equations with Applications: Analytical Methods)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,370 Views
16 Pages

13 May 2021

The article deals with nonlinear second-order evolutionary partial differential equations (PDEs) of the parabolic type with a reasonably general form. We consider the case of PDE degeneration when the unknown function vanishes. Similar equations in v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations and Applications)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,078 Views
38 Pages

6 January 2020

The study gives a brief overview of existing modifications of the method of functional separation of variables for nonlinear PDEs. It proposes a more general approach to the construction of exact solutions to nonlinear equations of applied mathematic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Qualitative Analysis of Differential, Difference, and Dynamic Equations and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2,094 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2022

The sign-invariant theory is used to study the radially symmetric nonlinear diffusion equations with gradient-dependent diffusivities. The first-order non-stationary sign-invariants and the first-order non-autonomous sign-invariants admitted by the g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Biomathematics: Recent Developments and Challenges)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,196 Views
19 Pages

7 July 2018

The radially symmetric nonlinear reaction–diffusion equation with gradient-dependent diffusivity is investigated. We obtain conditions under which the equations admit second-order conditional Lie–Bäcklund symmetries and first-order H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lie and Conditional Symmetries and Their Applications for Solving Nonlinear Models, II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,209 Views
33 Pages

20 April 2018

This review is devoted to search for Lie and Q-conditional (nonclassical) symmetries and exact solutions of a class of reaction-diffusion-convection equations with exponential nonlinearities. A complete Lie symmetry classification of the class is der...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lie and Conditional Symmetries and Their Applications for Solving Nonlinear Models, II)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,943 Views
16 Pages

8 August 2020

A conditional Lie-Bäcklund symmetry method and differential constraint method are developed to study the radially symmetric nonlinear convection-diffusion equations with source. The equations and the admitted conditional Lie-Bäcklund symmet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Nonlinear Diffusion Equations)
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  • Open Access
807 Views
14 Pages

The Legendre Spectral Method for Solving the Nonlinear Time-Fractional Convection-Diffusion Equations

  • Guangfeng Lu,
  • Lihua Jiang,
  • Wenping Chen,
  • Qingping Cheng and
  • Xinyue Wang

6 March 2026

In this paper, the nonlinear time-fractional convection-diffusion equations are solved by the Legendre spectral method. The Caputo time-fractional derivative is discretized by the L2–1σ scheme. A priori estimates of the fully discrete sch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling and Computational Methods in Real-World Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,133 Views
23 Pages

The paper studies a degenerate nonlinear parabolic equation containing a convective term and a source (reaction) term. It considers the construction of approximate solutions to this equation with a specified law of diffusion wave motion, the existenc...

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  • Open Access
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15 Pages

In this paper, we prove the lower bounds of the blow-up time of solutions for certain Caputo time fractional diffusion equations and systems with nonlinear memory terms under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The proofs of our results rely o...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,268 Views
39 Pages

31 May 2022

The paper describes essential reaction–diffusion models with delay arising in population theory, medicine, epidemiology, biology, chemistry, control theory, and the mathematical theory of artificial neural networks. A review of publications on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Partial Differential and Functional Differential Equations: Exact Solutions, Reductions, Symmetries, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,570 Views
19 Pages

Determination of a Nonlinear Coefficient in a Time-Fractional Diffusion Equation

  • Mustafa Zeki,
  • Ramazan Tinaztepe,
  • Salih Tatar,
  • Suleyman Ulusoy and
  • Rami Al-Hajj

In this paper, we study direct and inverse problems for a nonlinear time fractional diffusion equation. We prove that the direct problem has a unique weak solution and the solution depends continuously on the coefficient. Then we show that the invers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Evolutionary Equations and Modeling of Dissipative Processes)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,842 Views
16 Pages

19 January 2020

Symmetry properties of a nonlinear two-dimensional space-fractional diffusion equation with the Riesz potential of the order α ∈ ( 0 , 1 ) are studied. Lie point symmetry group classification of this equation is performed with resp...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,610 Views
19 Pages

Some Second-Order σ Schemes Combined with an H1-Galerkin MFE Method for a Nonlinear Distributed-Order Sub-Diffusion Equation

  • Yaxin Hou,
  • Cao Wen,
  • Hong Li,
  • Yang Liu and ,
  • Zhichao Fang and
  • Yining Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 February 2020

In this article, some high-order time discrete schemes with an H 1 -Galerkin mixed finite element (MFE) method are studied to numerically solve a nonlinear distributed-order sub-diffusion model. Among the considered techniques, the interpolati...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,966 Views
11 Pages

Solution of Higher Order Nonlinear Time-Fractional Reaction Diffusion Equation

  • Neeraj Kumar Tripathi,
  • Subir Das,
  • Seng Huat Ong,
  • Hossein Jafari and
  • Maysaa Al Qurashi

8 September 2016

The approximate analytical solution of fractional order, nonlinear, reaction differential equations, namely the nonlinear diffusion equations, with a given initial condition, is obtained by using the homotopy analysis method. As a demonstration of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelets, Fractals and Information Theory II)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,328 Views
18 Pages

A Fast Preconditioned Semi-Implicit Difference Scheme for Strongly Nonlinear Space-Fractional Diffusion Equations

  • Yu-Yun Huang,
  • Xian-Ming Gu,
  • Yi Gong,
  • Hu Li and ,
  • Yong-Liang Zhao and
  • Bruno Carpentieri
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In this paper, we propose a semi-implicit difference scheme for solving one-dimensional nonlinear space-fractional diffusion equations. The method is first-order accurate in time and second-order accurate in space. It uses a fractional central differ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Numerical Solutions of Fractional PDEs)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,474 Views
10 Pages

Nonclassical Symmetries of a Nonlinear Diffusion–Convection/Wave Equation and Equivalents Systems

  • Daniel J. Arrigo,
  • Brandon P. Ashley,
  • Seth J. Bloomberg and
  • Thomas W. Deatherage

26 November 2016

It is generally known that classical point and potential Lie symmetries of differential equations (the latter calculated as point symmetries of an equivalent system) can be different. We question whether this is true when the symmetries are extended...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lie and Conditional Symmetries and Their Applications for Solving Nonlinear Models)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,963 Views
12 Pages

Diffusion equations play a crucial role in various scientific and technological domains, including mathematical biology, physics, electrical engineering, and mathematics. This article presents a new formulation of the diffusion equation in the contex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance on the Fractal and Fractional Calculus in Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,043 Views
18 Pages

28 May 2019

Although one-dimensional non-linear diffusion equations are commonly used to model flow dynamics in aquifers and fissures, they disregard multiple effects of real-life flows. Similarity analysis may allow further analytical reduction of these equatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Experimental and Computational Rheology)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,357 Views
16 Pages

8 March 2020

We present a finite-difference integration algorithm for solution of a system of differential equations containing a diffusion equation with nonlinear terms. The approach is based on Crank–Nicolson method with predictor–corrector algorith...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,872 Views
20 Pages

Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Convection–Diffusion Equation Using the Fifth Order Iterative Method by Newton–Jarratt

  • Santiago Quinga,
  • Wilson Pavon,
  • Nury Ortiz,
  • Héctor Calvopiña and ,
  • Gandhy Yépez and
  • Milton Quinga
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 April 2025

This study presents a novel fifth-order iterative method for solving nonlinear systems derived from a modified combination of Jarratt and Newton schemes, incorporating a frozen derivative of the Jacobian. The method is applied to approximate solution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,244 Views
15 Pages

The Quasi-Boundary Regularization Method for Recovering the Initial Value in a Nonlinear Time–Space Fractional Diffusion Equation

  • Dun-Gang Li,
  • Yong-Gang Chen,
  • Yin-Xia Gao,
  • Fan Yang and ,
  • Jian-Ming Xu and
  • Xiao-Xiao Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 April 2023

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem for identifying the initial value problem of the time–space fractional nonlinear diffusion equation. The uniqueness of the solution is proved by taking the fixed point theorem of Banach compression...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,996 Views
14 Pages

21 September 2021

The paper considers the features of numerical reconstruction of the advection coefficient when solving the coefficient inverse problem for a nonlinear singularly perturbed equation of the reaction-diffusion-advection type. Information on the position...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
993 Views
16 Pages

This paper presents a novel B-spline wavelet-based scheme for solving multi-term time–space variable-order fractional nonlinear diffusion-wave equations. By combining semi-orthogonal B-spline wavelets with a collocation approach and a quasiline...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Fractional Evolution Equations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,086 Views
19 Pages

14 July 2023

This study is devoted to reaction–diffusion equations with spatially anisotropic time delay. Reaction–diffusion PDEs with either constant or variable transfer coefficients are considered. Nonlinear equations of a fairly general form conta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,777 Views
26 Pages

25 August 2024

In this work, we aim to explore new exact traveling wave solutions for the reaction–diffusion equation, which describes complex nonlinear phenomena such as cell growth and chemical reactions in nature. Obtaining exact solutions to this equation...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,619 Views
22 Pages

2 March 2021

We study nonlinear pantograph-type reaction–diffusion PDEs, which, in addition to the unknown u=u(x,t), also contain the same functions with dilated or contracted arguments of the form w=u(px,t), w=u(x,qt), and w=u(px,qt), where p and q are the free...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Partial Differential and Functional Differential Equations: Exact Solutions, Reductions, Symmetries, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,139 Views
16 Pages

On the Omori Law in the Physics of Earthquakes

  • Alexey Zavyalov,
  • Oleg Zotov,
  • Anatol Guglielmi and
  • Boris Klain

4 October 2022

This paper proposes phenomenological equations that describe various aspects of aftershock evolution: elementary master equation, logistic equation, stochastic equation, and nonlinear diffusion equation. The elementary master equation is a first-orde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Comprehensive Research in Earthquake Forecasting and Seismic Hazard Assessment)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,961 Views
12 Pages

Inverse Problem of Recovering the Initial Condition for a Nonlinear Equation of the Reaction–Diffusion–Advection Type by Data Given on the Position of a Reaction Front with a Time Delay

  • Dmitry Lukyanenko,
  • Tatyana Yeleskina,
  • Igor Prigorniy,
  • Temur Isaev and ,
  • Andrey Borzunov and
  • Maxim Shishlenin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 February 2021

In this paper, approaches to the numerical recovering of the initial condition in the inverse problem for a nonlinear singularly perturbed reaction–diffusion–advection equation are considered. The feature of the formulation of the inverse problem is...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,170 Views
22 Pages

Lie Symmetries of the Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equation Based on Weighted Kaniadakis Entropy

  • Iulia-Elena Hirica,
  • Cristina-Liliana Pripoae,
  • Gabriel-Teodor Pripoae and
  • Vasile Preda

4 August 2022

The paper studies the Lie symmetries of the nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation in one dimension, which are associated to the weighted Kaniadakis entropy. In particular, the Lie symmetries of the nonlinear diffusive equation, associated to the weighted...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability, Statistics and Their Applications 2021)
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  • Article
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9 Citations
2,612 Views
38 Pages

9 January 2025

Four explicit numerical schemes are collected, which are stable and efficient for the diffusion equation. Using these diffusion solvers, several new methods are constructed for the nonlinear Huxley’s equation. Then, based on many successive num...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,779 Views
20 Pages

22 January 2024

The paper concerns a nonlinear second-order parabolic evolution equation, one of the well-known objects of mathematical physics, which describes the processes of high-temperature thermal conductivity, nonlinear diffusion, filtration of liquid in a po...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,941 Views
18 Pages

Nonclassical Symmetry Solutions for Fourth-Order Phase Field Reaction–Diffusion

  • Philip Broadbridge,
  • Dimetre Triadis,
  • Dilruk Gallage and
  • Pierluigi Cesana

17 March 2018

Using the nonclassical symmetry of nonlinear reaction–diffusion equations, some exact multi-dimensional time-dependent solutions are constructed for a fourth-order Allen–Cahn–Hilliard equation. This models a phase field that gives a phenomenological...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lie and Conditional Symmetries and Their Applications for Solving Nonlinear Models, II)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,908 Views
31 Pages

9 February 2021

This paper describes a number of simple but quite effective methods for constructing exact solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations that involve a relatively small amount of intermediate calculations. The methods employ two main ideas: (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry Methods and Applications for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,307 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, two-dimensional Genocchi polynomials and the Ritz–Galerkin method were developed to investigate the Fractional Diffusion Wave Equation (FDWE) and the Fractional Klein–Gordon Equation (FKGE). A satisfier function that satisf...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,120 Views
18 Pages

30 May 2024

In this paper, we focus on the existence of positive solutions for a singular tempered sub-diffusion fractional model involving a quasi-homogeneous nonlinear operator. By using the spectrum theory and computing the fixed point index, some new suffici...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Geometric Theory of Analytic Functions)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,066 Views
22 Pages

25 February 2020

This article proposes adaptive iterative splitting methods to solve Multiphysics problems, which are related to convection–diffusion–reaction equations. The splitting techniques are based on iterative splitting approaches with adaptive id...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Solving Partial Derivative Equations and Nonlinear Integral Equations by Splitting Techniques and Nonlinear Iterative Methods)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,466 Views
28 Pages

The study considers a nonlinear multi-parameter reaction–diffusion system of two Lotka–Volterra-type equations with several delays. It treats both cases of different diffusion coefficients and identical diffusion coefficients. The study d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Partial Differential and Functional Differential Equations: Exact Solutions, Reductions, Symmetries, and Applications)

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