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In this work, a second-order approximation of the fractional substantial derivative is presented by considering a modified shifted substantial Gr\"{u}nwald formula and its asymptotic expansion. Moreover, the proposed approximation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Zhaopeng Hao , Wanrong Cao , Guang Lin

This work considers to numerically solve a subdiffusion equation involving constant time delay $\tau$ and Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. First, a fully discrete finite element scheme is developed for the considered problem under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Weiping Bu , Chen Nie , Weizhi Liao

In this paper, we develop two fast implicit difference schemes for solving a class of variable-coefficient time-space fractional diffusion equations with integral fractional Laplacian (IFL). The proposed schemes utilize the graded $L1$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Xian-Ming Gu , Hai-Wei Sun , Yanzhi Zhang , Yong-Liang Zhao

In this paper, we propose a new second-order fast finite difference scheme in time for solving the Tempered Time Fractional Advection-Dispersion Equation. Under the assumption that the solution is nonsmooth at the initial time, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Liangcai Huang , Shujuan Lü

In this paper we propose and analyze an energy stable numerical scheme for the Cahn-Hilliard equation, with second order accuracy in time and the fourth order finite difference approximation in space. In particular, the truncation error for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Kelong Cheng , Wenqiang Feng , Cheng Wang , Steven M. Wise

In this paper, a second order finite difference scheme is investigated for time-dependent one-side space fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients. The existing schemes for the equation with variable coefficients have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Xue-lei Lin , Pin Lyu , Michael K. Ng , Hai-Wei Sun , Seakweng Vong

A fast two-level linearized scheme with unequal time-steps is constructed and analyzed for an initial-boundary-value problem of semilinear subdiffusion equations. The two-level fast L1 formula of the Caputo derivative is derived based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Hong-lin Liao , Yonggui Yan , Jiwei Zhang

Fractional differential equations (FDEs) are an extension of the theory of fractional calculus. However, due to the difficulty in finding analytical solutions, there have not been extensive applications of FDEs until recent decades. With…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Nirupama Bhattacharya , Gabriel A. Silva

In this paper, we propose a novel numerical scheme for solving time-fractional reaction-diffusion problems with Robin boundary conditions, where the time derivative is in the Caputo sense of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$. The existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Qian Luo , Aiguo Xiao , Xiaoqiang Yan , Jingmin Xia

Anomalous diffusion is a phenomenon that cannot be modeled accurately by second-order diffusion equations, but is better described by fractional diffusion models. The nonlocal nature of the fractional diffusion operators makes substantially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-08 K. Mustapha , K. Furati , O. M. Knio , O. Le Maitre

We prove existence and uniqueness of the flow of water within a confined aquifer with fractional diffusion in space and fractional time derivative in the sense of Caputo-Fabrizio. Our main method is the fixed-point theorem. We propose the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-25 J-D Djida , A. Atangana

The subdiffusion equation with a Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time arises in a wide variety of practical applications, and it is often adopted to model anomalous subdiffusion processes in heterogeneous media.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

In this paper, we propose a fast second-order approximation to the variable-order (VO) Caputo fractional derivative, which is developed based on $L2$-$1_\sigma$ formula and the exponential-sum-approximation technique. The fast evaluation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jia-li Zhang , Zhi-wei Fang , Hai-wei Sun

We propose a piecewise-linear, time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method to solve numerically a time fractional diffusion equation involving Caputo derivative of order $\mu\in (0,1)$ with variable coefficients. For the spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-03 K. Mustapha , B. Abdallah , K. M. Furati , M. Nour

In the paper we deal with linear fractional control problems with constant delays in the state. Single-order systems with fractional derivative in Caputo sense of orders between 0 and 1 are considered. The aim is to introduce a new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Josef Rebenda , Zdeněk Šmarda

In this paper, the time fractional reaction-diffusion equations with the Caputo fractional derivative are solved by using the classical $L1$-formula and the finite volume element (FVE) methods on triangular grids. The existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Zhichao Fang , Jie Zhao , Hong Li , Yang Liu

In this article, a numerical scheme is introduced for solving the fractional partial differential equation (FPDE) arising from electromagnetic waves in dielectric media (EMWDM) by using an efficient class of finite difference methods. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Vijay Kumar Patel , Dhirendra Bahuguna

In this paper, a higher order finite difference scheme is proposed for Generalized Fractional Diffusion Equations (GFDEs). The fractional diffusion equation is considered in terms of the generalized fractional derivatives (GFDs) which uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Kamlesh Kumar , Rajesh K. Pandey

We consider a class of numerical approximations to the Caputo fractional derivative. Our assumptions permit the use of nonuniform time steps, such as is appropriate for accurately resolving the behavior of a solution whose derivatives are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Hong-lin Liao , William McLean , Jiwei Zhang

We apply a composite idea of semi-discrete finite difference approximation in time and Galerkin finite element method in space to solve the Navier-Stokes equations with Caputo derivative of order 0 < {\alpha} < 1. The stability properties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Guang-an Zou , Yong Zhou , Bashir Ahmad , Ahmed Alsaedi