Fundamental solution of the time-space bi-fractional diffusion equation with a kinetic source term for anomalous transport

Sci Rep. 2024 Jun 5;14(1):12886. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-63579-7.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the fundamental solution of the time-space bi-fractional diffusion equation incorporating an additional kinetic source term in semi-infinite space. The equation is a generalization of the integer-order model t ρ ( x , t ) = x 2 ρ ( x , t ) - ρ ( x , t ) (also known as the Debye-Falkenhagen equation) by replacing the first-order time derivative with the Caputo fractional derivative of order 0 < α < 1 , and the second-order space derivative with the Riesz-Feller fractional derivative of order 0 < β < 2 . Using the Laplace-Fourier transforms method, it is shown that the parametric solutions are expressed in terms of the Fox's H-function that we evaluate for different values of α and β .