摘要

A new method is formulated and analyzed for the approximate solution of a two-dimensional time-fractional diffusion-wave equation. In this method, orthogonal spline collocation is used for the spatial discretization and, for the time-stepping, a novel alternating direction implicit method based on the Crank-Nicolson method combined with the -approximation of the time Caputo derivative of order . It is proved that this scheme is stable, and of optimal accuracy in various norms. Numerical experiments demonstrate the predicted global convergence rates and also superconvergence.