On nonnegativity preservation in finite element methods for subdiffusion equations

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3167zbMath1364.65197arXiv1510.02825OpenAlexW2343137341MaRDI QIDQ2981776

Vidar Thomée, Bangti Jin, Raytcho D. Lazarov, Zhi Zhou

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02825

zbMATH Keywords

Galerkin methodheat equationfinite element methodnumerical experimentssemidiscretefinite volume element methodfractional diffusion equationsCaputo fractional derivativesubdiffusionfully discretemaximum-principlelumped mass methodnonnegativity preservation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M20) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08)

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Uses Software

• Triangle
• DistMesh

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