Stability and convergence of modified Du Fort-Frankel schemes for solving time-fractional subdiffusion equations (Q487712)

The authors present a Du Fort-Frankel-type of finite difference schemes for solving fractional sub-diffusion equations in the Jumarie's modified Riemann-Liouville form with constant, variable or distributed fractional order. By combining the L1 approximation of the modified fractional derivative with the idea of Du Fort-Frankel scheme, the explicit schemes are obtained. Unconditional stability of the schemes is established in the sense of a discrete energy norm. The advantage of this method is that the conditional consistency required for the schemes is rather weaker than the stability condition required for those existing explicit schemes for solving fractional sub-diffusion equations.