What is the fractional Laplacian? A comparative review with new results

A Lischke, G Pang, M Gulian, F Song, C Glusa… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The fractional Laplacian in R d, which we write as (− Δ) α/2 with α∈(0, 2), has multiple
equivalent characterizations. Moreover, in bounded domains, boundary conditions must be …

Numerical methods for nonlocal and fractional models

M D'Elia, Q Du, C Glusa, M Gunzburger, X Tian… - Acta Numerica, 2020 - cambridge.org
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are used with huge success to model phenomena
across all scientific and engineering disciplines. However, across an equally wide swath …

Numerical methods for fractional diffusion

A Bonito, JP Borthagaray, RH Nochetto… - … and Visualization in …, 2018 - Springer
We present three schemes for the numerical approximation of fractional diffusion, which
build on different definitions of such a non-local process. The first method is a PDE approach …

A computational method for solving variable-order fractional nonlinear diffusion-wave equation

MH Heydari, Z Avazzadeh, Y Yang - Applied Mathematics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we generalize a one-dimensional fractional diffusion-wave equation to a one-
dimensional variable-order space-time fractional nonlinear diffusion-wave equation (V-OS …

External optimal control of nonlocal PDEs

H Antil, R Khatri, M Warma - Inverse Problems, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Very recently Warma (2019 SIAM J. Control Optim. to appear) has shown that for
nonlocal PDEs associated with the fractional Laplacian, the classical notion of controllability …

Efficient quantitative assessment of robot swarms: coverage and targeting Lévy strategies

S Duncan, G Estrada-Rodriguez, J Stocek… - Bioinspiration & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Biologically inspired strategies have long been adapted to swarm robotic systems, including
biased random walks, reaction to chemotactic cues and long-range coordination. In this …

Nonlocal diffusion models with consistent local and fractional limits

Q Du, X Tian, Z Zhou - … , Applications, and Analysis of Nonlocal, Nonlinear …, 2023 - Springer
For some spatially nonlocal diffusion models with a finite range of nonlocal interactions
measured by a positive parameter δ, we review their formulation defined on a bounded …

Quasi-optimal convergence rate for an adaptive method for the integral fractional Laplacian

M Faustmann, J Melenk, D Praetorius - Mathematics of Computation, 2021 - ams.org
For the discretization of the integral fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^ s $, $0< s< 1$, based on
piecewise linear functions, we present and analyze a reliable weighted residual a posteriori …

Robust nonlocal trace and extension theorems

F Grube, M Kassmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.05735, 2023 - arxiv.org
We prove trace and extension results for Sobolev-type function spaces that are well suited
for nonlocal Dirichlet and Neumann problems including those for the fractional $ p …

A monotone discretization for integral fractional Laplacian on bounded Lipschitz domains: Pointwise error estimates under Hölder regularity

R Han, S Wu - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 2022 - SIAM
We propose a monotone discretization for the integral fractional Laplace equation on
bounded Lipschitz domains with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The …