Exact solutions of the fractional time‐derivative Fokker–Planck equation: A novel approach

Author(s):  
Hamdy I. Abdel‐Gawad ◽  
Nasser H. Sweilam ◽  
Seham M. Al‐Mekhlafi ◽  
Dumitru Baleanu
Entropy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Weber ◽  
Piotr Bełdowski ◽  
Martin Bier ◽  
Adam Gadomski

We study the entropy production that is associated with the growing or shrinking of a small granule in, for instance, a colloidal suspension or in an aggregating polymer chain. A granule will fluctuate in size when the energy of binding is comparable to k B T , which is the “quantum” of Brownian energy. Especially for polymers, the conformational energy landscape is often rough and has been commonly modeled as being self-similar in its structure. The subdiffusion that emerges in such a high-dimensional, fractal environment leads to a Fokker–Planck Equation with a fractional time derivative. We set up such a so-called fractional Fokker–Planck Equation for the aggregation into granules. From that Fokker–Planck Equation, we derive an expression for the entropy production of a growing granule.


2009 ◽  
Vol 373 (18-19) ◽  
pp. 1610-1615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Schulze-Halberg ◽  
Jesús Morales Rivas ◽  
José Juan Peña Gil ◽  
Jesús García-Ravelo ◽  
Pinaki Roy

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