Seakweng Vong

Xue-lei Lin, Pin Lyu, Michael K. Ng et al.

In this paper, a second order finite difference scheme is investigated for time-dependent one-side space fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients. The existing schemes for the equation with variable coefficients have temporal convergence rate no better than second order and spatial convergence rate no better than first order, theoretically. In the presented scheme, the Crank-Nicolson temporal discretization and a second-order weighted-and-shifted Grünwald-Letnikov spatial discretization are employed. Theoretically, the unconditional stability and the second-order convergence in time and space of the proposed scheme are established under some conditions on the diffusion coefficients. Moreover, a Toeplitz preconditioner is proposed for linear systems arising from the proposed scheme. The condition number of the preconditioned matrix is proven to be bounded by a constant independent of the discretization step-sizes so that the Krylov subspace solver for the preconditioned linear systems converges linearly. Numerical results are reported to show the convergence rate and the efficiency of the proposed scheme.

Dakang Cen, Caixia Ou, Seakweng Vong

In this work, our aim is to introduce a symmetric fractional-order reduction (SFOR) method to develop numerical algorithms on nonuniform temporal meshes for fractional wave equations under lower regularity assumptions. The $L$-type methods--including $L1$ and $L2$-$1_σ$ schemes--are specifically designed for diffusion-wave equations, and we propose novel optimal parameter selections tailored to nonuniform meshes. Finally, several numerical experiments are conducted to validate the efficiency and accuracy of the algorithms.

Seakweng Vong, Pin Lyu

We study a second order scheme for spatial fractional differential equations with variable coefficients. Previous results mainly concentrate on equations with diffusion coefficients that are proportional to each other. In this paper, by further study on the generating function of the discretization matrix, second order convergence of the scheme is proved for diffusion coefficients satisfying a certain condition but are not necessary to be proportional. The theoretical results are justified by numerical tests.

Pin Lyu, Seakweng Vong

We consider difference schemes for nonlinear time fractional Klein-Gordon type equations in this paper. A linearized scheme is proposed to solve the problem. As a result, iterative method need not be employed. One of the main difficulties for the analysis is that certain weight averages of the approximated solutions are considered in the discretization and standard energy estimates cannot be applied directly. By introducing a new grid function, which further approximates the solution, and using ideas in some recent studies, we show that the method converges with second-order accuracy in time.