Abstract: 

We study two schemes for a time-fractional Fokker–Planck equation with space and time-dependent forcing in one

space dimension.  The first scheme is continuous in time and is discretized in space using a piecewise-linear Galerkin finite element method.  The second is continuous in space and employs a time-stepping procedure similar to the classical implicit Euler method.  We show that the space discretization is second-order accurate in

the spatial L2-norm, whereas the corresponding error for the time-stepping scheme is of order kα for a uniform time step k, where α ∈ (1/2, 1) is the fractional diffusion parameter.  In numerical experiments using a combined, fully-discrete method, we observe convergence behaviour consistent with these results.  

Speaker

Kim Ngan Le

Research Area
Affiliation

UNSW

Date

Tue, 09/02/2016 - 11:30am to 11:55am

Venue

RC-2063, The Red Centre, UNSW