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Simulation of the continuous time random walk of the space-fractional diffusion equations. (English) Zbl 1153.65007
Summary: We discuss the solution of the space-fractional diffusion equation with and without central linear drift in the Fourier domain and show the strong connection between it and the $$\alpha$$-stable Lévy distribution, $$0<\alpha <2$$. We use some relevant transformations of the independent variables $$x$$ and $$t$$, to find the solution of the space-fractional diffusion equation with central linear drift which is a special form of the space-fractional Fokker-Planck equation which is useful in studying the dynamic behaviour of stochastic differential equations driven by the non-Gaussian (Lévy) noises. We simulate the continuous time random walk of these models by using the Monte Carlo method.

##### MSC:
 65C30 Numerical solutions to stochastic differential and integral equations 26A33 Fractional derivatives and integrals 45K05 Integro-partial differential equations 60J60 Diffusion processes 60G50 Sums of independent random variables; random walks 60G15 Gaussian processes 60H15 Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) 60H35 Computational methods for stochastic equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)
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