Analytical and numerical solutions of a one-dimensional fractional-in-space diffusion equation in a composite medium

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 216, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2248-2262

  Ilic, M ^a   Turner, I W ^a   Liu, F ^a   Anh, V ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Composite medium; Fractional diffusion; Global eigenfunction expansion; Global scheme; Numerical approximation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; COMPOSITE MEDIUM; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; EIGENFUNCTION EXPANSIONS; FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION; FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION EQUATION; FRACTIONAL EXPONENT; GLOBAL SOLUTIONS; LINEAR ODES; MATRIX; MATRIX REPRESENTATION; NEUMANN CONDITION; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL STRATEGIES; SIMULATION RESULT; SPACE OPERATORS; TWO LAYERS;

DIFFUSION; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 77953127197     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.03.060     Document Type: Article

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