Local discontinuous galerkin methods for fractional diffusion equations

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1845-1864

  Deng, W H ^a,b   Hesthaven, J S ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Error estimates; Fractional derivatives; Local discontinuous Galerkin methods; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996130235     PISSN: 0764583X     EISSN: 12903841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/m2an/2013091     Document Type: Article

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