Finite difference/spectral approximations for the fractional cable equation

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 80, Issue 275, 2011, Pages 1369-1396

  Lin, Yumin ^a   Li, Xianjuan ^a   Xu, Chuanju ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Fractional cable equation; Numerical solution; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955669422     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-2010-02438-X     Document Type: Article

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