Error Estimates for a Semidiscrete Finite Element Method for Fractional Order Parabolic Equations

DOI10.1137/120873984zbMath1268.65126arXiv1204.3884OpenAlexW2093685032MaRDI QIDQ4918813

Raytcho D. Lazarov, Zhi Zhou, Bangti Jin

Publication date: 6 May 2013

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3884

zbMATH Keywords

numerical resultserror estimatesfinite element methodsemidiscrete schemeinitial boundary value problemtime-fractional diffusion equationlumped mass methodfractional order parabolic equationssemidiscrete Gelerkin method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M20) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11)

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