Stability and convergence of a new explicit finite-difference approximation for the variable-order nonlinear fractional diffusion equation

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 435-445

  Lin, R ^a   Liu, F ^b,c   Anh, V ^b   Turner, I ^b  

^a FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Explicit difference approximation; Fractional calculus; Nonlinear fractional diffusion equation; Stability; Variable order

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE; EXPLICIT DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATION; FRACTIONAL CALCULUS; NONLINEAR FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION EQUATION; VARIABLE ORDER;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; STABILITY;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 67349098149     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2009.02.047     Document Type: Article

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