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Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals
An International Journal of Computation and Methodology
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A block-centered finite-difference method for the time-fractional diffusion equation on nonuniform grids

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Pages 217-233 | Received 03 Jun 2015, Accepted 20 Jul 2015, Published online: 21 Jan 2016

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