A characteristic difference method for the transient fractional convection-diffusion equations

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 946-960

  Su, Lijuan ^a   Wang, Wenqia ^b   Wang, Hong ^c  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference methods; Fractional convection diffusion equations; Method of characteristics; Shifted Gr nwald Letnikov formula; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCE; CHARACTERISTIC METHOD; CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; ERROR ESTIMATES; FRACTIONAL CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79956206224     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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