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Modified BDF2 schemes for subdiffusion models with a singular source term

Numerical Analysis 2022-07-19 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the time stepping scheme for approximately solving the subdiffusion equation with a weakly singular source term. In this case, many popular time stepping schemes, including the correction of high-order BDF methods, may lose their high-order accuracy. To fill in this gap, in this paper, we develop a novel time stepping scheme, where the source term is regularized by using a kk-fold integral-derivative and the equation is discretized by using a modified BDF2 convolution quadrature. We prove that the proposed time stepping scheme is second-order, even if the source term is nonsmooth in time and incompatible with the initial data. Numerical results are presented to support the theoretical results.

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@article{arxiv.2207.08447,
  title  = {Modified BDF2 schemes for subdiffusion models with a singular source term},
  author = {Minghua Chen and Jiankang Shi and Zhi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08447},
  year   = {2022}
}

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25pages

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