A finite element method with singularity reconstruction for fractional boundary value problems

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2015010MaRDI QIDQ3449156zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bangti Jin, Zhi Zhou

Publication date 3 November 2015

Published in ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6840

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceerror estimatefractional boundary value problemGalerkin finite element methodnumerical resultRiemann-Liouville fractional derivativesingularity reconstructiontwo-point boundary value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional ordinary differential equations (34A08) Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for ordinary differential equations (65L20) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L60)

Abstract: We consider a two-point boundary value problem involving a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order $alin(1,2)$ in the leading term on the unit interval $(0,1)$. Generally the standard Galerkin finite element method can only give a low-order convergence even if the source term is very smooth due to the presence of the singularity term $x^{al-1}$ in the solution representation. In order to enhance the convergence, we develop a simple singularity reconstruction strategy by splitting the solution into a singular part and a regular part, where the former captures explicitly the singularity. We derive a new variational formulation for the regular part, and establish that the Galerkin approximation of the regular part can achieve a better convergence order in the $L^2(0,1)$, $H^{al/2}(0,1)$ and $L^{i}nfty(0,1)$-norms than the standard Galerkin approach, with a convergence rate for the recovered singularity strength identical with the $L^2(0,1)$ error estimate. The reconstruction approach is very flexible in handling explicit singularity, and it is further extended to the case of a Neumann type boundary condition on the left end point, which involves a strong singularity $x^{al-2}$. Extensive numerical results confirm the theoretical study and efficiency of the proposed approach.

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