Analytical solutions for the multi-term time-space fractional advection-diffusion equations with mixed boundary conditions

In this paper, we consider the analytical solutions of multi-term time-space fractional advection-diffusion equations with mixed boundary conditions on a finite domain. The technique of spectral representation of the fractional Laplacian operator is used to convert the multi-term time-space fractional advection-diffusion equations into multi-term time fractional ordinary differential equations. By applying Luchko's theorem to the resulting fractional ordinary differential equations, the desired analytical solutions are obtained. Our results are applied to derive the analytical solutions of some special cases to demonstrate their practical applications. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.