@Article{IJNAM-9-658, author = {Basu , T. S. and Wang , H.}, title = {A Fast Second-Order Finite Difference Method for Space-Fractional Diffusion Equations}, journal = {International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling}, year = {2012}, volume = {9}, number = {3}, pages = {658--666}, abstract = {

Fractional diffusion equations provide an adequate and accurate description of transport processes that exhibit anomalous diffusion that cannot be modeled accurately by classical second-order diffusion equations. However, numerical discretizations of fractional diffusion equations yield full coefficient matrices, which require a computational operation of $O(N^3)$ per time step and a memory of $O(N^2)$ for a problem of size $N$. In this paper we develop a fast second-order finite difference method for space-fractional diffusion equations, which only requires memory of $O(N)$ and computational work of $O(N log^2 N)$. Numerical experiments show the utility of the method.

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