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Arbitrary order of convergence for Riesz fractional derivative via central difference method

Numerical Analysis 2021-08-10 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We propose a novel method to compute a finite difference stencil for Riesz derivative for artibitrary speed of convergence. This method is based on applying a pre-filter to the Gr\"unwald-Letnikov type central difference stencil. The filter is obtained by solving for the inverse of a symmetric Vandemonde matrix and exploiting the relationship between the Taylor's series coefficients and fast Fourier transform. The filter costs O\left(N^{2}\right) operations to evaluate for O\left(h^{N}\right) of convergence, where h is the sampling distance. The higher convergence speed should more than offset the overhead with the requirement of the number of nodal points for a desired error tolerance significantly reduced. The benefit of progressive generation of the stencil coefficients for adaptive grid size for dynamic problems with the Gr\"unwald-Letnikov type difference scheme is also kept because of the application of filtering. The higher convergence rate is verified through numerical experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2108.03772,
  title  = {Arbitrary order of convergence for Riesz fractional derivative via central difference method},
  author = {Pui Ho Lam and Hing Cheung So and Cheung Fat Chan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03772},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures