A high-order and unconditionally stable scheme for the modified anomalous fractional sub-diffusion equation with a nonlinear source term

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 240, Issue , 2013, Pages 36-48

  Mohebbi, Akbar ^a   Abbaszadeh, Mostafa ^a   Dehghan, Mehdi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Compact finite difference; Convergence; Fourier analysis; Modified anomalous fractional sub diffusion equation; Solvability; Unconditional stability

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; LIOUVILLE EQUATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COMPACT FINITE DIFFERENCES; CONVERGENCE; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; FOURIER'S ANALYSIS; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER; MODIFIED ANOMALOUS FRACTIONAL SUB-DIFFUSION EQUATION; SOLVABILITY; UNCONDITIONAL STABILITY; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

FOURIER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874387562     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.11.052     Document Type: Article

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