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标题：Discrete monotone method for space-fractional nonlinear reaction–diffusion equations
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作者：Salvador Flores ; Jorge E. Macías-Díaz ; Ahmed S. Hendy 等
期刊名称：Advances in Difference Equations
印刷版ISSN：1687-1839
电子版ISSN：1687-1847
出版年度：2019
卷号：2019
期号：1
页码：1-23
DOI：10.1186/s13662-019-2267-1
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：A discrete monotone iterative method is reported here to solve a space-fractional nonlinear diffusion–reaction equation. More precisely, we propose a Crank–Nicolson discretization of a reaction–diffusion system with fractional spatial derivative of the Riesz type. The finite-difference scheme is based on the use of fractional-order centered differences, and it is solved using a monotone iterative technique. The existence and uniqueness of solutions of the numerical model are analyzed using this approach, along with the technique of upper and lower solutions. This methodology is employed also to prove the main numerical properties of the technique, namely, the consistency, stability, and convergence. As an application, the particular case of the space-fractional Fisher’s equation is theoretically analyzed in full detail. In that case, the monotone iterative method guarantees the preservation of the positivity and the boundedness of the numerical approximations. Various numerical examples are provided to illustrate the validity of the numerical approximations. More precisely, we provide an extensive series of comparisons against other numerical methods available in the literature, we show detailed numerical analyses of convergence in time and in space against fractional and integer-order models, and we provide studies on the robustness and the numerical performance of the discrete monotone method.
关键词：Space-fractional diffusion;reaction equations;Crank;Nicolson finite-difference scheme;Discrete monotone iterative method;Existence and uniqueness of solutions;Numerical efficiency analysis