A hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for fractional diffusion problems (Q888521)

In this paper, the authors propose and analyze a numerical method using exact integration in time and the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method (cf. [\textit{B. Cockburn} et al., SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 47, No. 2, 1319--1365 (2009; Zbl 1205.65312)]) for the spatial discretization of a certain anomalous, slow diffusion (sub-diffusion) model problem in \(u\). Assuming that the exact solution is sufficiently regular, optimal error estimates of the approximations to \(u\) in certain norms over a regular triangular meshes has been proved. For quasi-uniform meshes, by a simple elementwise postprocessing, a faster approximation for \(u\) with a superconvergence rate has been obtained. Thus, the authors obtain a much better approximation at a cost which is negligible in comparison with that of obtaining the approximate solution. These convergence results extend those obtained in [\textit{B. Chabaud} and \textit{B. Cockburn}, Math. Comput. 81, No. 277, 107--129 (2012; Zbl 1251.65138)] for the heat equation.