Spectral approximation of a variable coefficient fractional diffusion equation in one space dimension

DOI10.1016/J.AMC.2019.05.017MaRDI QIDQ2279585zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiangcheng Zheng, V. J. Ervin, Hong Wang

Publication date 13 December 2019

Published in Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.12420

zbMATH Keywords

fractional diffusion equationJacobi polynomialsspectral method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35)

Abstract: In this article we consider the approximation of a variable coefficient (two-sided) fractional diffusion equation (FDE), having unknown $u$. By introducing an intermediate unknown, $q$, the variable coefficient FDE is rewritten as a lower order, constant coefficient FDE. A spectral approximation scheme, using Jacobi polynomials, is presented for the approximation of $q$, $q_N$. The approximate solution to $u$, $u_N$, is obtained by post processing $q_N$. An a priori error analysis is given for $(q,-,q_N)$ and $(u,-,u_N)$. Two numerical experiments are presented whose results demonstrate the sharpness of the derived error estimates.

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