Existence of solutions to boundary value problems arising from the fractional advection dispersion equation

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kong, Lingju ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional boundary value problem; Three solutions; Variational methods

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EID: 84876959075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10726691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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