A discontinuous Galerkin method for time fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients

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Abstract: We propose a piecewise-linear, time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method to solve numerically a time fractional diffusion equation involving Caputo derivative of order muin(0,1) with variable coefficients. For the spatial discretization, we apply the standard piecewise linear continuous Galerkin method. Well-posedness of the fully discrete scheme and error analysis will be shown. For a time interval~(0,T) and a spatial domain~Omega, our analysis suggest that the error in -norm is of order O(k2fracmu2+h2) (that is, short by order fracmu2 from being optimal in time) where k denotes the maximum time step, and h is the maximum diameter of the elements of the (quasi-uniform) spatial mesh. However, our numerical experiments indicate optimal O(k2+h2) error bound in the stronger -norm. Variable time steps are used to compensate the singularity of the continuous solution near t=0.



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