Time and space nonlocalities underlying fractional-derivative models: Distinction and literature review of field applications

Y Zhang, DA Benson, DM Reeves - Advances in Water Resources, 2009 - Elsevier
We investigate the spatiotemporal nonlocality underlying fractional-derivative models as a
possible explanation for regional-scale anomalous dispersion with heavy tails. Properties of …

Fractional modeling in action: A survey of nonlocal models for subsurface transport, turbulent flows, and anomalous materials

JL Suzuki, M Gulian, M Zayernouri, M D'Elia - Journal of Peridynamics and …, 2023 - Springer
Modeling of phenomena such as anomalous transport via fractional-order differential
equations has been established as an effective alternative to partial differential equations …

Physically based modeling in catchment hydrology at 50: Survey and outlook

C Paniconi, M Putti - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated, process‐based numerical models in hydrology are rapidly evolving, spurred by
novel theories in mathematical physics, advances in computational methods, insights from …

Normal and anomalous diffusion of gravel tracer particles in rivers

V Ganti, MM Meerschaert… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One way to study the mechanism of gravel bed load transport is to seed the bed with marked
gravel tracer particles within a chosen patch and to follow the pattern of migration and …

Space‐fractional advection‐dispersion equations with variable parameters: Diverse formulas, numerical solutions, and application to the Macrodispersion Experiment …

Y Zhang, DA Benson, MM Meerschaert… - Water Resources …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
To model the observed local variation of transport speed, an extension of the homogeneous
space‐fractional advection‐dispersion equation (fADE) to more general cases with space …

A radial basis functions method for fractional diffusion equations

C Piret, E Hanert - Journal of Computational Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the ongoing issues with fractional diffusion models is the design of an efficient high-
order numerical discretization. This is one of the reasons why fractional diffusion models are …

A nonlocal theory of sediment transport on hillslopes

E Foufoula‐Georgiou, V Ganti… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Hillslopes are typically shaped by varied processes which have a wide range of event‐
based downslope transport distances, some of the order of the hillslope length itself. We …

Front dynamics in fractional-order epidemic models

E Hanert, E Schumacher, E Deleersnijder - Journal of theoretical biology, 2011 - Elsevier
A number of recent studies suggest that human and animal mobility patterns exhibit scale-
free, Lévy-flight dynamics. However, current reaction-diffusion epidemics models do not …

Particle motion on burned and vegetated hillslopes

DL Roth, TH Doane, JJ Roering… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is causing increasingly widespread, frequent, and intense wildfires across
the western United States. Many geomorphic effects of wildfire are relatively well studied, yet …

Comparison of alternative models for simulating anomalous solute transport in a large heterogeneous soil column

G Gao, H Zhan, S Feng, G Huang, X Mao - Journal of hydrology, 2009 - Elsevier
This study compared five different models for evaluating solute transport in a 1250-cm long,
saturated and highly heterogeneous soil column. The five models were: the convection …