A mixed finite element method for a time-fractional fourth-order partial differential equation

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 243, Issue , 2014, Pages 703-717

  Liu, Yang ^a   Fang, Zhichao ^a   Li, Hong ^a   He, Siriguleng ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A priori error estimates; Caputo fractional derivative; Finite difference scheme; Mixed finite element method; Stability; Time fractional fourth order PDE

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

AUXILIARY VARIABLES; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FOURTH ORDER PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FOURTH-ORDER; FOURTH-ORDER EQUATIONS; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; PRIORI ERROR ESTIMATE; SECOND-ORDER EQUATION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 84903939649     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2014.06.023     Document Type: Article

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