By rewriting the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative as Hadamard finite-part integral and with the help of piecewise quadratic interpolation polynomial approximations, a numerical scheme is developed for approximating the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative of order α∈(1,2).\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\alpha \\in (1,2).$$\\end{document} The error has the asymptotic expansion (d3τ3-α+d4τ4-α+d5τ5-α+⋯)+(d2∗τ4+d3∗τ6+d4∗τ8+⋯)\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$ \\big ( d_{3} \ au ^{3- \\alpha } + d_{4} \ au ^{4-\\alpha } + d_{5} \ au ^{5-\\alpha } + \\cdots \\big ) + \\big ( d_{2}^{*} \ au ^{4} + d_{3}^{*} \ au ^{6} + d_{4}^{*} \ au ^{8} + \\cdots \\big ) $$\\end{document} at any fixed time tN=T,N∈Z+\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$t_{N}= T, N \\in {\\mathbb {Z}}^{+}$$\\end{document}, where di,i=3,4,…\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$d_{i}, i=3, 4,\\ldots $$\\end{document} and di∗,i=2,3,…\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$d_{i}^{*}, i=2, 3,\\ldots $$\\end{document} denote some suitable constants and τ=T/N\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\ au = T/N$$\\end{document} denotes the step size. Based on this discretization, a new scheme for approximating the linear fractional differential equation of order α∈(1,2)\\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage{wasysym} \\usepackage{amsfonts} \\usepackage{amssymb} \\usepackage{amsbsy} \\usepackage{mathrsfs} \\usepackage{upgreek} \\setlength{\\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \\begin{document}$$\\alpha \\in (1,2)$$\\end{document} is derived and its error is shown to have a similar asymptotic expansion. As a consequence, a high-order scheme for approximating the linear fractional differential equation is obtained by extrapolation. Further, a high-order scheme for approximating a semilinear fractional differential equation is introduced and analyzed. Several numerical experiments are conducted to show that the numerical results are consistent with our theoretical findings.
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