2021/09/04 by Shengyue Li, Li, Shengyue, Wanrong Cao +3
Engineering · Mathematics · #Differential Equations and Numerical Methods #FOS: Mathematics #Fractional Differential Equations Solutions #Numerical Analysis (math.NA) #Numerical methods in engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.01859
openalex publication_date 2021/09/04 · openalex created_date 2021/09/13 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this paper, we investigate a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for fractional initial value problems. Singularities of the solution at the origin inherited from the weakly singular kernel of the fractional derivative are considered, and the regularity is constructed for the solution in weighted Sobolev space. We present an optimal error estimate of the spectral Petrov-Galerkin method, and prove that the convergence order of the method in the weighted L2-norm is 3α+1 for smooth source term, where α is the order of the fractional derivative. An iteration algorithm with a quasi-linear complexity is considered to solve the produced linear system. Numerical experiments verify the theoretical findings and show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, and exhibit that the presented numerical method works well for some time-fractional diffusion equations after suitable temporal semi-discrete.