An implicit difference scheme for the fourth-order nonlinear partial integro-differential equations

Abstract

In this paper, an implicit difference scheme is constructed and analyzed for the fourth-order nonlinear partial integro-differential equations. The backward Euler scheme and convolution quadrature are combined for time derivative and Riemann–Liouville (R–L) fractional integral terms. A fully discrete difference scheme is established with the space discretization by the standard central difference approximation. For nonlinear convection term , by the Galerkin method based on piecewise linear test functions, we can handle nonlinear term implicitly and attain a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. The stability and convergence are derived by the energy method. Especially, the existence and uniqueness of the numerical solutions are strictly proved for the nonlinear system. Also, we introduce three methods for solving the nonlinear systems, where two existing methods and a new linearized iterative algorithm are given to show the efficiency of our scheme. Numerical results are consistent with the theoretical analysis.