Dissipativity and contractivity of the second-order averaged L1 method for fractional Volterra functional differential equations

This paper focuses on the dissipativity and contractivity of a second-order numerical method for fractional Volterra functional differential equations (F-VFDEs). Firstly, an averaged L1 method for the initial value problem of F-VFDEs is presented based on the averaged L1 approximation for Caputo fractional derivative together with an appropriate piecewise interpolation operator for the functional term. Then the averaged L1 method is proved to be dissipative with an absorbing set and contractive with an algebraic decay rate. Finally, the numerical experiments further confirm the theoretical results.