Analysis of a time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method for modified anomalous subdiffusion problems

Abstract

This paper analyzes a time-stepping discontinuous Galerkin method for modified anomalous subdiffusion problems with two time fractional derivatives of orders $\alpha$ and $\beta$ ($0<\alpha <\beta <1$). The stability of this method is established, the temporal accuracy of $O({\tau }^{m+1-\beta /2})$ is derived, where $m$ denotes the degree of polynomials for the temporal discretization. It is shown that, even the solution has singularity near $t=0+$, this temporal accuracy can still be achieved by using the graded temporal grids. Numerical experiments are performed to verify the theoretical results.