scholarly journals Blow-up rates of solutions of initial-boundary value problems for a quasi-linear parabolic equation

2017 ◽  
Vol 262 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichi Anada ◽  
Tetsuya Ishiwata
Author(s):  
Hu Chen ◽  
Martin Stynes

Abstract Time-fractional initial-boundary value problems of the form $D_t^\alpha u-p \varDelta u +cu=f$ are considered, where $D_t^\alpha u$ is a Caputo fractional derivative of order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ and the spatial domain lies in $\mathbb{R}^d$ for some $d\in \{1,2,3\}$. As $\alpha \to 1^-$ we prove that the solution $u$ converges, uniformly on the space-time domain, to the solution of the classical parabolic initial-boundary value problem where $D_t^\alpha u$ is replaced by $\partial u/\partial t$. Nevertheless, most of the rigorous analyses of numerical methods for this time-fractional problem have error bounds that blow up as $\alpha \to 1^-$, as we demonstrate. We show that in some cases these analyses can be modified to obtain robust error bounds that do not blow up as $\alpha \to 1^-$.


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