Direct meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (DMLPG) method for time-fractional fourth-order reaction–diffusion problem on complex domains

Abstract

A new numerical scheme has been developed based on the fast and efficient meshless local weak form i.e direct meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (DMLPG) method for solving the fractional fourth-order partial differential equation on computational domains with complex shape. The fractional derivative is the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative. At first, a finite difference scheme with the second-order accuracy has been employed to discrete the time variable. Then, the DMLPG technique is employed to achieve a full-discrete scheme. The time-discrete scheme has been studied in terms of unconditional stability and convergence order by the energy method in the L2 space. Also, some numerical results are presented to show the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed technique on the simple and complex domains with the irregular and non-regular grid points.