Efficient numerical method for multi-term time-fractional diffusion equations with Caputo-Fabrizio derivatives

Bin Fan; Bin Fan

doi:10.3934/math.2024354

AIMS Mathematics

2024, Volume 9, Issue 3: 7293-7320. doi: 10.3934/math.2024354

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Efficient numerical method for multi-term time-fractional diffusion equations with Caputo-Fabrizio derivatives

Bin Fan ^,

School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Fujian University of Technology, 350118 Fuzhou, China

Received: 03 December 2023 Revised: 19 January 2024 Accepted: 29 January 2024 Published: 20 February 2024
MSC : 35R11, 80M22, 80M20

In this paper, we consider a numerical method for the multi-term Caputo-Fabrizio time-fractional diffusion equations (with orders $ \alpha_i\in(0, 1) $, $ i = 1, 2, \cdots, n $). The proposed method employs a fast finite difference scheme to approximate multi-term fractional derivatives in time, requiring only $ O(1) $ storage and $ O(N_T) $ computational complexity, where $ N_T $ denotes the total number of time steps. Then we use a Legendre spectral collocation method for spatial discretization. The stability and convergence of the scheme have been thoroughly discussed and rigorously established. We demonstrate that the proposed scheme is unconditionally stable and convergent with an order of $ O\left(\left(\Delta t\right)^{2}+N^{-m}\right) $, where $ \Delta t $, $ N $, and $ m $ represent the timestep size, polynomial degree, and regularity in the spatial variable of the exact solution, respectively. Numerical results are presented to validate the theoretical predictions.
- multi-term time-fractional diffusion equation,
- Caputo-Fabrizio derivative,
- finite difference,
- spectral approximation,
- stability,
- error estimates
Citation: Bin Fan. Efficient numerical method for multi-term time-fractional diffusion equations with Caputo-Fabrizio derivatives[J]. AIMS Mathematics, 2024, 9(3): 7293-7320. doi: 10.3934/math.2024354

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider a numerical method for the multi-term Caputo-Fabrizio time-fractional diffusion equations (with orders $ \alpha_i\in(0, 1) $, $ i = 1, 2, \cdots, n $). The proposed method employs a fast finite difference scheme to approximate multi-term fractional derivatives in time, requiring only $ O(1) $ storage and $ O(N_T) $ computational complexity, where $ N_T $ denotes the total number of time steps. Then we use a Legendre spectral collocation method for spatial discretization. The stability and convergence of the scheme have been thoroughly discussed and rigorously established. We demonstrate that the proposed scheme is unconditionally stable and convergent with an order of $ O\left(\left(\Delta t\right)^{2}+N^{-m}\right) $, where $ \Delta t $, $ N $, and $ m $ represent the timestep size, polynomial degree, and regularity in the spatial variable of the exact solution, respectively. Numerical results are presented to validate the theoretical predictions.

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