A novel and accurate finite difference method for the fractional Laplacian and the fractional Poisson problem

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2017.11.011zbMath1380.65323OpenAlexW2769258003MaRDI QIDQ1700891

Hans Werner van Wyk, Siwei Duo, Yanzhi Zhang

Publication date: 22 February 2018

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.11.011

zbMATH Keywords

error estimatesfinite difference methodfractional Poisson equationfractional Laplacianweighted trapezoidal ruleweighted Montgomery identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pseudodifferential operators as generalizations of partial differential operators (35S05) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11)

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