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A PDE approach to space-time fractional parabolic problems

Numerical Analysis 2015-03-05 v3

Abstract

We study solution techniques for parabolic equations with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative, the latter being discretized and analyzed in a general Hilbert space setting. The spatial fractional diffusion is realized as the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map for a nonuniformly elliptic problem posed on a semi-infinite cylinder in one more spatial dimension. We write our evolution problem as a quasi-stationary elliptic problem with a dynamic boundary condition. We propose and analyze an implicit fully-discrete scheme: first-degree tensor product finite elements in space and an implicit finite difference discretization in time. We prove stability and error estimates for this scheme.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0068,
  title  = {A PDE approach to space-time fractional parabolic problems},
  author = {Ricardo H. Nochetto and Enrique Otarola and Abner J. Salgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0068},
  year   = {2015}
}
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