On a Novel Numerical Scheme for Riesz Fractional Partial Differential Equations

Abstract

In this paper, we consider numerical solutions for Riesz space fractional partial differential equations with a second order time derivative. We propose a Galerkin finite element scheme for both the temporal and spatial discretizations. For the proposed numerical scheme, we derive sharp stability estimates as well as optimal a priori error estimates. Extensive numerical experiments are conducted to verify the promising features of the newly proposed method.

Keywords

• Riesz fractional derivative
• numerical scheme
• bilinear finite element
• error estimates