Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (7): 897-912.doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-014-1833-9

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Highly efficient H1-Galerkin mixed finite element method (MFEM) for parabolic integro-differential equation

Dong-yang SHI, Xin LIAO, Qi-li TANG   

  1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, P. R. China
  • Received:2013-07-14 Revised:2013-09-21 Online:2014-07-01 Published:2014-07-01
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 10971203, 11271340, and 11101381) and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20094101110006)

Abstract:

A highly efficient H1-Galerkin mixed finite element method (MFEM) is presented with linear triangular element for the parabolic integro-differential equation. Firstly, some new results about the integral estimation and asymptotic expansions are studied. Then, the superconvergence of order O(h2) for both the original variable u in H1(Ω) norm and the flux p = u in H(div,Ω) norm is derived through the interpolation post processing technique. Furthermore, with the help of the asymptotic expansions and a suitable auxiliary problem, the extrapolation solutions with accuracy O(h3) are obtained for the above two variables. Finally, some numerical results are provided to confirm validity of the theoretical analysis and excellent performance of the proposed method.

Key words: linear triangular element, H1-Galerkin mixed finite element method (MFEM), asymptotic expansion, superconvergence and extrapolation, parabolic integro-differential equation

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