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

DOI10.1007/S11075-016-0106-YMaRDI QIDQ329324zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kassem Mustapha, B. Abdallah, K. M. Furati, M. Nour

Publication date 21 October 2016

Published in Numerical Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00163

zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous Galerkin methoderror estimatenumerical exampletime-fractional diffusion equationvariable coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

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 $$-norm is of order $O(k^{2-fracmu2}+h^2)$ (that is, short by order $fracmu2$ from being optimal in time) where $k$ denotes the maximum time step, and $h$ is the maximum diameter of the elements of the (quasi-uniform) spatial mesh. However, our numerical experiments indicate optimal $O(k^2+h^2)$ error bound in the stronger $$-norm. Variable time steps are used to compensate the singularity of the continuous solution near $t=0$.

Review text

The authors consider a piecewise-linear, time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method to solve a time-fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients involving a Caputo derivative of order \(\mu \in (0,1)\). A standard Galerkin method of total degree \(\leq 1\) on each spatial mesh elements is considered as a spatial discretization. Well-posedness of the fully discrete scheme and error analysis are proved. An error estimate is proved to be of order \(k^{2-\frac{\mu}{2}}+h^2\) in the \(L^2(L^2)\)-norm. Some numerical examples are presented and it is remarked that the order is \(k^ 2 +h^2 \) in the stronger \(L^\infty (L^2)\)-norm. Variable time steps are used to compensate the singularity of the continuous solution near \(t=0\).

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