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Original Articles

Effective numerical treatment of sub-diffusion equation with non-smooth solution

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Pages 1394-1407 | Received 29 Apr 2017, Accepted 16 Jan 2018, Published online: 05 Feb 2018
 

ABSTRACT

In this paper we investigate a sub-diffusion equation for simulating the anomalous diffusion phenomenon in real physical environment. Based on an equivalent transformation of the original sub-diffusion equation followed by the use of a smooth operator, we devise a high-order numerical scheme by combining the Nyström method in temporal direction with the compact finite difference method and the spectral method in spatial direction. The distinct advantage of this approach in comparison with most current methods is its high convergence rate even though the solution of the anomalous sub-diffusion equation usually has lower regularity on the starting point. The effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed method are verified by several numerical experiments.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the editor and the anonymous referees for their valuable comments and helpful suggestions that improve the quality of our paper.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos.11601432,11471262) and the Strategic Research Grant of the City University of Hong Kong (grant no. 7004446).

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