Article history: Received 27 June 2013 Received in revised form 22 January 2014 Accepted 25 March 2014 Available online 2 April 2014

Fractional-order diffusion equations are viewed as generalizations of classical diffusion equations, treating super-diffusive flow processes. In this paper, in order to solve the fractional advection-diffusion equation, the fractional characteristic finite difference method is presented, which is based on the method of characteristics (MOC) and fractional finite difference (FD) procedures. The ...

Using classic differential quadrature formulae and uniform grids, this paper systematically constructs a variety of high-order finite difference schemes, and some of these schemes are consistent with the so-called boundary value methods. The derived difference schemes enjoy the same stability and accuracy properties with correspondent differential quadrature methods but have a simpler form of c...

High-order finite difference methods are efficient, easy to program, scale well in multiple dimensions and can be modified locally for various reasons (such as shock treatment for example). The main drawback has been the complicated and sometimes even mysterious stability treatment at boundaries and interfaces required for a stable scheme. The research on summation-byparts operators and weak bo...

and Applied Analysis 3 The grid function y(x, t) is a function defined at the grid points of g. we denote the nodal values of a grid function y(x, t) between time levels t 0 and t 0 as y (x, t) = y (x 1 , x 2 , t l,j i ) = y l,j n1 ,n2 , (11) for x ∈ ω i , i > 0, j = 0, . . . , m i . For x ∈ ω 0 we define y (x, t) = y (x 1 , x 2 , t l+1 0 ) = y l+1 n1 ,n2 . (12) δ x1 , δ x1 and δ x2 , δ x2 are ...

The stability and convergence properties of the mimetic finite difference method for diffusion-type problems on polyhedral meshes are analyzed. The optimal convergence rates for the scalar and vector variables in the mixed formulation of the problem are proved.

The error generated by the classical upwind finite difference method on a uniform mesh, when applied to a class of singularly perturbed model ordinary differential equations with a singularly perturbed Neumann boundary condition, tends to infinity as the singular perturbation parameter tends to zero. Note that the exact solution is uniformly bounded with respect to the perturbation parameter. F...

It is important to simulate a groundwater transport process, e.g., pollutant migration, through the vadose zone and subsequent mixing within the saturated zone to assess potential impacts of contaminants in the subsurface in preliminary stages. It is challenging to simulate heterogeneous soil characteristics and non-uniform initial contaminant concentration. This paper proposes a vertically het...