Variational iteration method for solving the space- And time-fractional KdV equation

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 262-271

  Momani, Shaher ^a   Odibat, Zaid ^b   Alawneh, Ahmed ^c,d  

^a MUTAH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c AL AL BAYT UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Caputo fractional derivative; Fractional differential equations; KdV equation; Lagrange multiplier; Variational iteration method

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049162125     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: 10982426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.20247     Document Type: Article

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