Variational formulation and efficient implementation for solving the tempered fractional problems

TL;DR

This paper develops a variational framework and efficient computational methods for solving tempered fractional equations, which better model physical processes with finite domains and lifespans, and validates these methods through theoretical proofs and numerical experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a novel variational formulation and efficient implementation techniques for space and time tempered fractional equations, with rigorous convergence and stability analysis.

Findings

Theoretical proofs of convergence and stability.

Numerical experiments confirming the effectiveness.

Variational equalities established for tempered fractional models.

Abstract

Because of the finiteness of the life span and boundedness of the physical space, the more reasonable or physical choice is the tempered power-law instead of pure power-law for the CTRW model in characterizing the waiting time and jump length of the motion of particles. This paper focuses on providing the variational formulation and efficient implementation for solving the corresponding deterministic/macroscopic models, including the space tempered fractional equation and time tempered fractional equation. The convergence, numerical stability, and a series of variational equalities are theoretically proved. And the theoretical results are confirmed by numerical experiments.