Error analysis for a fractional-derivative parabolic problem on quasi-graded meshes using barrier functions

Abstract

An initial-boundary value problem with a Caputo time derivative of fractional order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ is considered, solutions of which typically exhibit a singular behaviour at an initial time. For this problem, we give a simple and general numerical-stability analysis using barrier functions, which yields sharp pointwise-in-time error bounds on quasi-graded temporal meshes with arbitrary degree of grading. L1-type and Alikhanov-type discretization in time are considered. In particular, those results imply that milder (compared to the optimal) grading yields optimal convergence rates in positive time. Semi-discretizations in time and full discretizations are addressed. The theoretical findings are illustrated by numerical experiments.

arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.05070

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