A Second-Order Accurate Numerical Approximation for Two-Sided Fractional Boundary Value Advection-Diffusion Problem

Theory of Approximation and Applications

مقاله 8، دوره 13، شماره 1، مرداد 2019، صفحه 119-135

نوع مقاله: Research Articles

نویسندگان

Elyas Shivanian^{* 1}؛ Hamid Reza Khodabandehlo²

¹Department of Mathematics, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, 34149-16818, Iran

²Department of Mathematics, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, 34149-16818, Iran

چکیده

Fractional order partial differential equations are generalization of classical partial
differential equations. Increasingly, these models are used in applications such as fluid flow, finance
and others. In this paper we examine some practical numerical methods to solve a class of initial-boundary value fractional partial differential equations with variable coefficients on a finite domain. An approach based on the classical Crank-Nicolson method combined with spatial extrapolation is used to obtain temporally and spatially second-order accurate numerical estimates. Stability, consistency, and convergence of the method are examined. It is shown that the fractional Crank-Nicolson method based on the shifted Gr"{u}nwald
formula is unconditionally stable. Some numerical examples are presented and compared with the exact analytical solution
for its order of convergence.


Fractional order partial differential equations are generalization of classical partial
differential equations. Increasingly, these models are used in applications such as fluid flow, finance
and others. In this paper we examine some practical numerical methods to solve a class of initial-boundary value fractional partial differential equations with variable coefficients on a finite domain. An approach based on the classical Crank-Nicolson method combined with spatial extrapolation is used to obtain temporally and spatially second-order accurate numerical estimates. Stability, consistency, and convergence of the method are examined. It is shown that the fractional Crank-Nicolson method based on the shifted Gr"{u}nwald
formula is unconditionally stable. Some numerical examples are presented and compared with the exact analytical solution
for its order of convergence.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Numerical fractional PDE؛ Two-sided fractional partial differential equation؛ Shifted Gr"{u}nwald-Letnikov formula؛ Fractional diffusion؛ Crank-Nicolson method