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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 548292, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/548292
Research Article
A Characteristic Difference Scheme for Time-Fractional Heat Equations Based on the Crank-Nicholson Difference Schemes
Department of Mathematics, Fatih University, Buyukcekmece, 34500 Istanbul, Turkey
Received 25 April 2012; Revised 27 August 2012; Accepted 27 August 2012
Academic Editor: Dumitru Bǎleanu
Copyright © 2012 Ibrahim Karatay and Serife R. Bayramoglu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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