Abstract
An initial-boundary value problem, whose differential equation contains a sum of fractional time derivatives with orders between 0 and 1, is considered.
Its spatial domain is
Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Award Identifier / Grant number: 11801332
Award Identifier / Grant number: 11971259
Award Identifier / Grant number: NSAF-U1930402
Funding statement: The research of Martin Stynes is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant NSAF U1930402. The research of Chaobao Huang is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11801332 and 11971259).
Acknowledgements
We thank both reviewers for their careful reading of the paper, and in particular we thank one reviewer for suggesting to us a significant simplification in the stability analysis.
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