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International Journal of Differential Equations
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 464321, 22 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/464321
Research Article
Stability and Convergence of an Effective Numerical Method for the Time-Space Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation with a Nonlinear Source Term
School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia
Received 25 May 2009; Revised 20 August 2009; Accepted 28 September 2009
Academic Editor: Om Agrawal
Copyright © 2010 Qianqian Yang et al. 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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