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FEM for time-fractional diffusion equations, novel optimal error analyses

Numerical Analysis 2020-06-12 v2 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

A semidiscrete Galerkin finite element method applied to time-fractional diffusion equations with time-space dependent diffusivity on bounded convex spatial domains will be studied. The main focus is on achieving optimal error results with respect to both the convergence order of the approximate solution and the regularity of the initial data. By using novel energy arguments, for each fixed time tt, optimal error bounds in the spatial L2L^2- and H1H^1-norms are derived for both cases: smooth and nonsmooth initial data.

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@article{arxiv.1610.05621,
  title  = {FEM for time-fractional diffusion equations, novel optimal error analyses},
  author = {Kassem Mustapha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05621},
  year   = {2020}
}
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