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Simulation of the continuous time random walk of the space-fractional diffusion equations

  • E. A. Abdel-Rehim*
  • , R. Gorenflo
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this article, we discuss the solution of the space-fractional diffusion equation with and without central linear drift in the Fourier domain and show the strong connection between it and the α-stable Lévy distribution, 0 < α < 2. We use some relevant transformations of the independent variables x and t, to find the solution of the space-fractional diffusion equation with central linear drift which is a special form of the space-fractional Fokker-Planck equation which is useful in studying the dynamic behaviour of stochastic differential equations driven by the non-Gaussian (Lévy) noises. We simulate the continuous time random walk of these models by using the Monte Carlo method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)274-283
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Volume222
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • α-stable distribution
  • Continuous time random walk
  • Fokker-Planck equation
  • Fractional diffusion
  • Monte Carlo method
  • Space-Fractional derivative
  • Stochastic processes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Applied Mathematics

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