Weighted finite difference methods for a class of space fractional partial differential equations with variable coefficients

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 233, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1905-1914

  Ding, Zhiqing ^a   Xiao, Aiguo ^a   Li, Min ^b  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Left handed fractional derivative; Right handed fractional derivative; Shifted Gr nwald formula; Stability; Weighted finite difference methods

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE RESULTS; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; INITIAL-BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; STABILITY AND CONVERGENCE; VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS; WEIGHTED FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 70549084939     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2009.09.027     Document Type: Article

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