Numerical evaluation of two and three parameter Mittag-Leffler functions

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1350-1369

  Garrappa, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fractional calculus; Laplace transform; Mittag Leffler function; Prabhakar function; Special function; Trapezoidal rule

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; FRACTIONAL CALCULUS; MITTAG-LEFFLER FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PROPAGATION OF ERROR; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS; TRAPEZOIDAL RULES;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 84937854434     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/140971191     Document Type: Article

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