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Discontinuous Galerkin method for an evolution equation with a memory term of positive type
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Math. Comp. 78 (2009), 1975-1995 Request permission

Abstract:

We consider an initial value problem for a class of evolution equations incorporating a memory term with a weakly singular kernel bounded by $C(t-s)^{\alpha -1}$, where $0<\alpha <1$. For the time discretization we apply the discontinuous Galerkin method using piecewise polynomials of degree at most $q-1$, for $q=1$ or $2$. For the space discretization we use continuous piecewise-linear finite elements. The discrete solution satisfies an error bound of order $k^q+h^2\ell (k)$, where $k$ and $h$ are the mesh sizes in time and space, respectively, and $\ell (k)=\max (1,\log k^{-1})$. In the case $q=2$, we prove a higher convergence rate of order $k^3+h^2\ell (k)$ at the nodes of the time mesh. Typically, the partial derivatives of the exact solution are singular at $t=0$, necessitating the use of non-uniform time steps. We compare our theoretical error bounds with the results of numerical computations.
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  • Kassem Mustapha
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
  • MR Author ID: 727133
  • Email: kassem@kfupm.edu.sa
  • William McLean
  • Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
  • Email: w.mclean@unsw.edu.au
  • Received by editor(s): October 16, 2007
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 9, 2008
  • Published electronically: February 23, 2009
  • Additional Notes: Support of the KFUPM is gratefully acknowledged
  • © Copyright 2009 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 78 (2009), 1975-1995
  • MSC (2000): Primary 26A33, 45J05, 65M12, 65M15, 65M60
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-09-02234-0
  • MathSciNet review: 2521275