Spectral element technique for nonlinear fractional evolution equation, stability and convergence analysis

Abstract

In the current manuscript, we consider a fractional partial integro-differential equation that is called fractional evolution equation. The fractional evolution equation is based on the Riemann–Liouville fractional integral. The presented numerical algorithm is based on the following procedures: at first a difference scheme has been used to discrete the temporal direction and secondly the spectral element method is applied to discrete the spatial direction and finally these procedures are combined to obtain a full-discrete scheme. For the constructed numerical technique, we prove the unconditional stability and also obtain an error bound. We use the energy method to analysis the full-discrete scheme. We employ some test problems to show the high accuracy of the proposed technique. Also, we compare the obtained numerical results using the present method with the existing methods in the literature.