14–17 Sept 2025
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University
Europe/Warsaw timezone

The g-subdiffusion equation as a universal anomalous diffusion equation

15 Sept 2025, 16:20
20m
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University

Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science; Jagiellonian University

Lojasiewicza 11 30-348 Kraków Poland

Speaker

Prof. Tadeusz Kosztołowicz (Institute pf Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland)

Description

The g-subdiffusion equation is a subdiffusion equation containing the fractional Caputo time derivative with respect to another function g. The process described by this equation is interpreted as "ordinary" subdiffusion in which the time variable t has been replaced by an increasing function g(t). This function determines the frequency of jumps of the diffusing molecule. The g-subdiffusion equation can be derived from a modified continuous time random walk model. By defining the function g appropriately, this equation describes a smooth transition from subdiffusion to superdiffusion, to subdiffusion with changing parameters, and to slow subdiffusion (ultraslow diffusion). This equation can also describe superdiffusion (then we call it the g-superdiffusion equation), providing solutions that in the long-time limit are consistent with solutions of the fractional superdiffusion equation with the spatial fractional Riesz-Weyl type derivative. For the g-superdiffusion equation, the problem of assuming local boundary conditions at partially permeable thin membranes does not arise.
References.
T. Kosztołowicz, Phys. Rev. E 106, 022104 (2022); 107, 064103 (2023); Entropy 27(1), 48 (2025). T. Kosztołowicz, A. Dutkiewcz, Phys. Rev. E 104, 014118 (2021); 104, L042101 (2021); 106, 044119 (2022). T. Kosztołowicz, et al., Phys. Rev. E 106, 044138 (2022).

Primary author

Prof. Tadeusz Kosztołowicz (Institute pf Physics, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland)

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