Space-time Petrov-Galerkin FEM for fractional diffusion problems

DOI10.1515/CMAM-2017-0026zbMATH Open1382.65311arXiv1707.08057OpenAlexW2963142826MaRDI QIDQ1697102FDOQ1697102

Authors: Beiping Duan, Bangti Jin, Zhi Zhou, Raytcho D. Lazarov, Joseph E. Pasciak 

Publication date: 15 February 2018

Published in: Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present and analyze a space-time Petrov-Galerkin finite element method for a time-fractional diffusion equation involving a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative of order $alphain(0,1)$ in time and zero initial data. We derive a proper weak formulation involving different solution and test spaces and show the inf-sup condition for the bilinear form and thus its well-posedness. Further, we develop a novel finite element formulation, show the well-posedness of the discrete problem, and establish error bounds in both energy and $L^2$ norms for the finite element solution. In the proof of the discrete inf-sup condition, a certain nonstandard $L^2$ stability property of the $L^2$ projection operator plays a key role. We provide extensive numerical examples to verify the convergence of the method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08057

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilityerror estimatesnumerical exampletime-fractional diffusion equationdiscrete inf-sup conditionspace-time Petrov-Galerkin finite element method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) 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)

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