Fa Kwok Sau, Lenzi E K
Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Avenida Colombo 5790, 87020-900, Maringá-PR, Brazil.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Jan;71(1 Pt 1):012101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.012101. Epub 2005 Jan 20.
We investigate the solutions and the first passage time for anomalous diffusion processes governed by the usual diffusion equation. We consider a space- and time-dependent diffusion coefficient and the presence of absorbing boundaries. We obtain analytical results for the probability distribution and the first passage time distribution for finite and semi-infinite intervals. In addition, we compare our results for the first passage time distribution with the one obtained by the usual diffusion equation with constant diffusion coefficient.