Error estimates of crank-nicolson-type difference schemes for the subdiffusion equation

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2302-2322

  Zhang, Ya Nan ^a   Sun, Zhi Zhong ^a   Wu, Hong Wei ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Finite difference; Fractional derivative; Stability; Subdiffusion equation

Indexed keywords

COMPACT SCHEMES; CONVERGENCE; CONVERGENCE ORDER; DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; ERROR ESTIMATES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVE; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; MAXIMUM NORM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SOBOLEV; SPATIAL DIRECTION; SUBDIFFUSION; THEORETICAL RESULT; THOMAS ALGORITHM; TRIDIAGONAL; TRUNCATION ERRORS; UNCONDITIONAL STABILITY;

LINEAR SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84862921732     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/100812707     Document Type: Article

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