Direct discontinuous Galerkin method for solving nonlinear time fractional diffusion equation with weak singularity solution (Q2184926)

This work is concerned with the numerical solution of nonlinear time fractional diffusion equation with Caputo derivative. The proposed scheme approximates the Caputo derivative by the well-known \(L1\)-type formua (on a graded mesh), applies a direct discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) method on a uniform mesh, and then employs the Newton linearization method for the nonlinear term. The authors derive optimal \(L^2(\Omega)\) error estimates, and present several numerical experiments.