Numerical approximation of the space-time fractional diffusion problem

Fractional differential equations have become central tools for the accurate modeling of real-world phenomena in various fields. This work focuses on the discretization of the space-time fractional diffusion problem with Caputo derivative in time and Riesz-Caputo derivative in space. We introduce a collocation method based on a B-spline representation of the solution. This approach strategically exploits the symmetry properties of both the spline basis functions and the Riesz-Caputo operator, resulting in an efficient method for solving the given fractional differential problem. Preliminary numerical tests are presented to validate the proposed collocation method.