Journal Article

·2018

The accuracy of an HDG method for conservative fractional diffusion equations

Mehmet Fatih Karaaslan YTU

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce and investigate the performance of a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for approximating the solution of conservative fractional diffusion equations (CFDE). The main attractive feature of these methods is the fact that the only globally coupled unknowns are those at the element boundaries. We first introduce the HDG method for the CFDE and prove the existence and uniqueness of the numerical solution provided that the stabilization parameter is strictly positive. We provide extensive numerical results to test the convergence behavior of the HDG approximation.

Keywords

Mathematics Discontinuous Galerkin method Uniqueness Convergence (economics) Applied mathematics Diffusion Weak formulation Mathematical analysis Finite element method Boundary value problem

Subject Areas

Fractional Differential Equations Solutions ·Modeling and Simulation ·Physical Sciences
Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics ·Computational Mechanics ·Physical Sciences
Differential Equations and Numerical Methods ·Numerical Analysis ·Physical Sciences

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