A-posteriori error estimations based on postprocessing technique for two-sided fractional differential equations

Abstract

The analysis of diffusion-reaction equations with general two-sided fractional derivative characterized by a parameter p∈[0,1] is investigated in this paper. First, we present a Petrov-Galerkin method, derive a proper weak formulation and show the well-posedness of its weak solution. Moreover, on the basis of the two-sided Jacobi polyfractonomials, a priori error analysis of Petrov-Galerkin method is derived. Further, a posteriori error analysis is established rigorously. More precisely, we develop a novel postprocessing technique to enhance the Petrov-Galerkin method by adding a small amount of computation, and analyze asymptotically exact a-posteriori error estimators. Finally, we demonstrate the theoretical results with numerical examples.