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Second-order BDF time approximation for Riesz space-fractional diffusion equations

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Pages 144-158 | Received 12 Jan 2017, Accepted 18 Jun 2017, Published online: 30 Aug 2017
 

ABSTRACT

Second-order backward difference formula (BDF2) is considered for time approximation of Riesz space-fractional diffusion equations. The Riesz space derivative is approximated by the second-order fractional centre difference formula. To improve the computational efficiency, an alternating directional implicit scheme is also proposed for solving two-dimensional space-fractional diffusion problems. Numerical experiments are provided to verify our theory and to show the effectiveness of numerical algorithms.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the editor and referees for their helpful comments which have improved the presentation of this paper.

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Funding

This research was partially supported by the research grant numbers MYRG2015-00064-FST and MYRG2017-00098-FST from Universidade de Macau, the grant numbers 11001271 and 11372354 from National Science Foundation of China and the grant numbers BRA2015518 from 333 High-level Personal Training Project of Jiangsu Province.

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