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We investigate a second-order accurate time-stepping scheme for solving a time-fractional diffusion equation with a Caputo derivative of order~$\alpha \in (0,1)$. The basic idea of our scheme is based on local integration followed by linear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Kassem Mustapha , William McLean , Josef Dick

In this work, a time-fractional nonlocal diffusion equation is considered. Based on the $L2$-$1_{\sigma}$ scheme on a graded mesh in time and the standard finite element method (FEM) in space, the fully-discrete $L2$-$1_{\sigma}$ finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Pari J. Kundaliya

Over the past few decades, there has been substantial interest in evolution equations that involving a fractional-order derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ in time, due to their many successful applications in engineering, physics, biology…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Zhi Zhou

In this work, we investigate a quasilinear subdiffusion model which involves a fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ in time and a nonlinear diffusion coefficient. First, using smoothing properties of solution operators for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Bangti Jin , Qimeng Quan , Barbara Wohlmuth , Zhi Zhou

We develop a numerical scheme for subdiffusion of variable exponent by combining the $L2-1_\sigma$ temporal discretization with finite element spatial approximation. In existing works, determining the superconvergence points requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Hongying Huang , Huili Zhang , Xiangcheng Zheng

Stability and convergence of a time-weighted discrete scheme with nonuniform time steps are established for linear reaction-subdiffusion equations. The Caupto derivative is approximated at an offset point by using linear and quadratic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Hong-lin Liao , William McLean , Jiwei Zhang

In 1986, Dixon and McKee developed a discrete fractional Gr\"{o}nwall inequality [Z. Angew. Math. Mech., 66 (1986), pp. 535--544], which can be seen as a generalization of the classical discrete Gr\"{o}nwall inequality. However, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Hui Zhang , Fanhai Zeng , Xiaoyun Jiang , George Em Karniadakis

An initial-boundary value problem with a Caputo time derivative of fractional order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ is considered, solutions of which typically exhibit a singular behaviour at an initial time. For this problem, we give a simple framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Natalia Kopteva

This paper analyzes the well-known L1 scheme for fractional wave equations with nonsmooth data. A new stability estimate is obtained, and the temporal accuracy $ \mathcal O(\tau^{3-\alpha}) $ is derived for the nonsmooth initial data. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Binjie Li , Tao Wang , Xiaoping Xie

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 discretize the Caputo time derivative of order \alpha \in (0,1) using the Alikhanov scheme on a quasi-graded temporal mesh, and employ the Newton linearization method to approximate the nonlinear term. This yields a…

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We couple the L1 discretization of the Caputo fractional derivative in time with the Galerkin scheme to devise a linear numerical method for the semilinear subdiffusion equation. Two important points that we make are: nonsmooth initial data…

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We investigate the behavior of the time derivatives of the solution to a linear time-fractional, advection-diffusion-reaction equation, allowing space- and time-dependent coefficients as well as initial data that may have low regularity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 William McLean , Kassem Mustapha , Raed Ali , Omar M. Knio

In this paper, we first propose an unconditionally stable implicit difference scheme for solving generalized time-space fractional diffusion equations (GTSFDEs) with variable coefficients. The numerical scheme utilizes the $L1$-type formula…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Xian-Ming Gu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Yong-Liang Zhao , Pin Lyu , Bruno Carpentieri

In this work, we consider the numerical solution of an initial boundary value problem for the distributed order time fractional diffusion equation. The model arises in the mathematical modeling of ultra-slow diffusion processes observed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Bangti Jin , Raytcho Lazarov , Dongwoo Sheen , Zhi Zhou

In this work, our aim is to introduce a symmetric fractional-order reduction (SFOR) method to develop numerical algorithms on nonuniform temporal meshes for fractional wave equations under lower regularity assumptions. The $L$-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Dakang Cen , Caixia Ou , Seakweng Vong

In this work, we explore a time-fractional diffusion equation of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with a stochastic diffusivity parameter. We focus on efficient estimation of the expected values (considered as an infinite dimensional integral on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Josef Dick , Hecong Gao , William McLean , Kassem Mustapha

A semilinear initial-boundary value problem with a Caputo time derivative of fractional order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ is considered, solutions of which typically exhibit a singular behaviour at an initial time. For L1-type discretizations of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Natalia Kopteva

In this work, a subdiffusion equation with constant time delay $\tau$ is considered. First, the regularity of the solution to the considered problem is investigated, finding that its first-order time derivative exhibits singularity at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Weiping Bu , Xueqin Zhang , Weizhi Liao , Yue Zhao