A discontinuous Galerkin method for time fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients

DOI10.1007/S11075-016-0106-YzbMATH Open1352.65363arXiv1511.00163OpenAlexW2267852856MaRDI QIDQ329324FDOQ329324

M. Nour, Kassem Mustapha, K. M. Furati, B. Abdallah

Publication date: 21 October 2016

Published in: Numerical Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a piecewise-linear, time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method to solve numerically a time fractional diffusion equation involving Caputo derivative of order $muin(0,1)$ with variable coefficients. For the spatial discretization, we apply the standard piecewise linear continuous Galerkin method. Well-posedness of the fully discrete scheme and error analysis will be shown. For a time interval~$(0,T)$ and a spatial domain~$Omega$, our analysis suggest that the error in $$-norm is of order $O(k^{2-fracmu2}+h^2)$ (that is, short by order $fracmu2$ from being optimal in time) where $k$ denotes the maximum time step, and $h$ is the maximum diameter of the elements of the (quasi-uniform) spatial mesh. However, our numerical experiments indicate optimal $O(k^2+h^2)$ error bound in the stronger $$-norm. Variable time steps are used to compensate the singularity of the continuous solution near $t=0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00163

zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous Galerkin methoderror estimatenumerical examplevariable coefficientstime-fractional diffusion equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) 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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