Numerical solution of a model for turbulent diffusion

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Sousa, Ercilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

finite differences; fractional differential equations; Riesz fractional derivative; Turbulent diffusion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION;

CONVERGENCE RESULTS; EXPLICIT NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; IMPLICIT NUMERICAL METHOD; STABILITY CONSTRAINTS; TURBULENT DIFFUSION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84887392164     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127413501666     Document Type: Article

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