Abstract
Non-Fickian or anomalous diffusion had been well documented in material transport through heterogeneous systems at all scales, whose dynamics can be quantified by the time fractional derivative equations (fDEs). While analytical or numerical solutions have been developed for the standard time fDE in bounded domains, the standard time fDE suffers from the singularity issue due to its power-law function kernel. This study aimed at deriving the analytical solutions for the time fDE models with a modified kernel in bounded domains. The Mittag-Leffler function was selected as the alternate kernel to improve the standard power-law function in defining the time fractional derivative, which was known to be able to overcome the singularity issue of the standard fractional derivative. Results showed that the method of variable separation can be applied to derive the analytical solution for various time fDEs with absorbing and/or reflecting boundary conditions. Finally, numerical examples with detailed comparison for fDEs with different kernels showed that the models and solutions obtained by this study can capture anomalous diffusion in bounded domains.
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