Spatial High Accuracy Analysis of FEM for Two-dimensional Multi-term Time-fractional Diffusion-wave Equations

In this paper, high-order numerical analysis of finite element method (FEM) is presented for two-dimensional multi-term time-fractional diffusion-wave equation (TFDWE). First of all, a fully-discrete approximate scheme for multi-term TFDWE is established, which is based on bilinear FEM in spatial direction and Crank-Nicolson approximation in temporal direction, respectively. Then the proposed scheme is proved to be unconditionally stable and convergent. And then, rigorous proofs are given here for superclose properties in H1−norm and temporal convergence in L2-norm with order $$O(h^{2}+\tau^{3-\alpha})$$O(h2+τ3−α), where h and τ are the spatial size and time step, respectively. At the same time, theoretical analysis of global superconvergence in H1-norm is derived by interpolation postprocessing technique. At last, numerical example is provided to demonstrate the theoretical analysis.

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