International Journal of Differential Equations
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 495202, 19 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/495202
Research Article

A Time-Space Collocation Spectral Approximation for a Class of Time Fractional Differential Equations

Department of Mathematics, School of Sciences, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China

Received 22 May 2012; Revised 26 July 2012; Accepted 29 July 2012

Academic Editor: Fawang Liu

Copyright © 2012 Fenghui Huang. 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.

Abstract

A numerical scheme is presented for a class of time fractional differential equations with Dirichlet's and Neumann's boundary conditions. The model solution is discretized in time and space with a spectral expansion of Lagrange interpolation polynomial. Numerical results demonstrate the spectral accuracy and efficiency of the collocation spectral method. The technique not only is easy to implement but also can be easily applied to multidimensional problems.