Title
Some new error estimates of a semidiscrete finite volume element method for a parabolic integro-differential equation with nonsmooth initial data
Abstract
A semidiscrete finite volume element (FVE) approximation to a parabolic integro-differential equation (PIDE) is analyzed in a two-dimensional convex polygonal domain. An optimal-order $L^2$-error estimate for smooth initial data and nearly the same optimal-order $L^2$-error estimate for nonsmooth initial data are obtained. More precisely, for homogeneous equations, an elementary energy technique and a duality argument are used to derive an error estimate of order $O\left(t^{-1}{h^2}\ln h\right)$ in the $L^2$-norm for positive time when the given initial function is only in $L^2$.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1137/040612099
SIAM J. Numerical Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
nonsmooth initial data,semidiscrete finite volume element,smooth and nonsmooth initial data.,error estimate,smooth initial data,homogeneous equation,optimal-order error estimate,initial function,ln h,new error estimate,parabolic equation,parabolic integro-differential equation,positive time,integro-differential equation,elementary energy technique,duality argument,finite volume,integro differential equation
Polygon,Mathematical optimization,Mathematical analysis,Integro-differential equation,Finite element method,Regular polygon,Duality (optimization),Numerical analysis,Finite volume method,Mathematics,Parabola
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
6
0036-1429
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.92
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rajen K. Sinha1152.05
Richard E. Ewing225245.87
Raytcho D. Lazarov345682.23