Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
976534 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 2008 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

We investigate the solutions and the first passage time for anomalous diffusion processes governed by the fractional nonlinear diffusion equation with a space- and time-dependent diffusion coefficient subject to absorbing boundaries and the initial condition. We obtain explicit analytical expression for the probability distribution, the first passage time distribution, the mean first passage time, and the mean squared displacement corresponding to different time-dependent diffusion coefficient. In addition, we compare our results for the first passage time distribution and the mean first passage time with the one obtained by usual linear diffusion equation with time-dependent diffusion coefficient.

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