Existence and uniqueness of the weak solution of the space-time fractional diffusion equation and a spectral method approximation

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1016-1051

  Li, Xianjuan ^a,b   Xu, Chuanju ^b  

^a BNU HKBU UNITED INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Error estimates; Existence and uniqueness; Space time fractional diffusion equation; Spectral methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954143774     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.020709.221209a     Document Type: Article

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