A New Mixed Element Method for a Class of Time-Fractional Partial Differential Equations

作者:Liu, Yang*; Li, Hong; Gao, Wei; He, Siriguleng; Fang, Zhichao
来源:The Scientific World Journal, 2014, 2014: 141467.
DOI:10.1155/2014/141467

摘要

A kind of new mixed element method for time-fractional partial differential equations is studied. The Caputo-fractional derivative of time direction is approximated by two-step difference method and the spatial direction is discretized by a new mixed element method, whose gradient belongs to the simple (L-2(Omega))(2) space replacing the complex H(div; Omega) space. Some a priori error estimates in L-2-norm for the scalar unknown u and in (L-2)(2)-norm for its gradient sigma. Moreover, we also discuss a priori error estimates in H-1-norm for the scalar unknown u.