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Is there any demo program of FEM for fractional parabolic equations in FEniCS?

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Hi,

I have to solve fem of fractional order parabolic partial differential equations (FPDE) for $y(x,t)$ in FEniCS:

$$ y^{\alpha}_{t}(x,t)+\mbox{div}(-A(x)\nabla y(x,t))=f(x,t), \ (x,t)\in \Omega\times [0,T] $$
$$ y(x,t)=0,\ (x,t) \in \partial\Omega\times [0,T], \quad y(x,0)=y_{0}(x),\ \mbox{in}\ \Omega, $$

Here $y^{\alpha}_{t}(x,t)$ is defined by the following Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha$ with respect to t and it is defined by

$$ y^{\alpha}_{t}(x,t)= \frac{\partial^{\alpha}y(x,t)}{\partial t^{\alpha}} = \frac{1}{\Gamma(1-
\alpha)}\int_{0}^{t}(t-\tau)^{-\alpha}\ \frac{\partial}{\partial \tau}y(x,\tau) \ d\tau, \quad 0
<\alpha<1 $$
where $\Gamma(\cdot)$ is the Gamma function.

I wouldn't able to get an idea about this.

Anybody clarify this to me.

Thank you

asked Sep 8, 2014 by Manickam FEniCS Novice (450 points)
edited Sep 9, 2014 by Manickam
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