A Finite Point Method for Solving the Time Fractional Richards’ Equation

Table 1

Comparison of ε2 errors between the FPM and the FDM under different α, when T = 1, ∆t = 10⁻³, and the number of nodes is 11.

α	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.8
FPM	2.5156e − 06	6.9681e − 06	1.8722e − 05	4.7683e − 05	1.1539e − 04
FDM	1.4281e − 03	1.4360e − 03	1.4519e − 03	1.4823e − 03	1.5359e − 03