Finite difference/spectral approximations for the time-fractional diffusion equation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1533-1552

  Lin, Yumin ^a   Xu, Chuanju ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Fractional diffusion equation; Spectral approximation; Stability

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS;

CONVERGENCE; FIRST ORDER; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION EQUATION; NUMERICAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL APPROXIMATIONS; STABLE ORDERS; TIME DERIVATIVE; TIME FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION EQUATION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 34547548712     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.02.001     Document Type: Article

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