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An efficient numerical method based on QSC for multi-term variable-order time fractional mobile-immobile diffusion equation with Neumann boundary condition
Electronic Research Archive 2025, 33(2): 642-666
Published: 15 February 2025
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In this work, we aimed at a kind of multi-term variable-order time fractional mobile-immobile diffusion (TF-MID) equation satisfying the Neumann boundary condition, with fractional orders α m ( t ) for m = 1 , 2 , , P, and introduced a QSC- L 1 + scheme by applying the quadratic spline collocation (QSC) method along the spatial direction and using the L 1 + formula for the temporal direction. This new scheme was shown to be unconditionally stable and convergent with the accuracy O ( τ min { 3 α α ( 0 ) , 2 } + Δ x 2 + Δ y 2 ), where Δ x, Δ y, and τ denoted the space-time mesh sizes. α was the maximum of α m ( t ) over the time interval, and α ( 0 ) was the maximum of α m ( 0 ) in all values of m. The QSC- L 1 + scheme, under certain appropriate conditions on α m ( t ), is capable of attaining a second order convergence in time, even on a uniform space-time grid. Additionally, we also implemented a fast computation approach which leveraged the exponential-sum-approximation technique to increase the computational efficiency. A numerical example with different fractional orders was attached to confirm the theoretical findings.

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