A comparison of three Eulerian numerical methods for fractional-order transport models

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-20

  Hanert, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fractional calculus; L vy distributions; Spectral element method; Tracer transport

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRACER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 75949112770     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9145-4     Document Type: Article

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