Abstract
A fractional derivative is a temporally nonlocal operation which is computationally intensive due to inclusion of the accumulated contribution of function values at past times. In order to lessen the computational load while maintaining the accuracy of the fractional derivative, a novel numerical method for the Caputo fractional derivative is proposed. The present adaptive memory method significantly reduces the requirement for computational memory for storing function values at past time points and also significantly improves the accuracy by calculating convolution weights to function values at past time points which can be non-uniformly distributed in time. The superior accuracy of the present method to the accuracy of the previously reported methods is identified by deriving numerical errors analytically. The sub-diffusion process of a time-fractional diffusion equation is simulated to demonstrate the accuracy as well as the computational efficiency of the present method.
Appendix A. B(m, α) ⩽ c(α)m−α
For 0 < α < 1, the function B(m, α) in Eq. (4.23) is expressed as follows:
By letting p = 2m − k, Eq. (A.1) is rewritten as follows:
Using the Taylor series expansion, (p − 1)1−α is expanded as follows:
By substituting Eq. (A.3) into Eq. (A.2), Eq. (A.2) is recast in terms of p as follows:
For the summation in Eq. (A.4) we have the following inequality:
Therefore, there exists a real constant c(α) such that B(m, α) ⩽ c(α)m−α.
Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2015R1A2A1A15056086 and NRF-2019K1A3A1A74107685).
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- FCAA related news, events and books
- Survey Paper
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- Research Paper
- An adaptive memory method for accurate and efficient computation of the Caputo fractional derivative
- Analysis of solutions of some multi-term fractional Bessel equations
- Existence of solutions for the semilinear abstract Cauchy problem of fractional order
- Summability of formal solutions for a family of generalized moment integro-differential equations
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- Short Paper
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- Short note
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- FCAA related news, events and books
- Survey Paper
- Towards a unified theory of fractional and nonlocal vector calculus
- Research Paper
- An adaptive memory method for accurate and efficient computation of the Caputo fractional derivative
- Analysis of solutions of some multi-term fractional Bessel equations
- Existence of solutions for the semilinear abstract Cauchy problem of fractional order
- Summability of formal solutions for a family of generalized moment integro-differential equations
- Analysis and fast approximation of a steady-state spatially-dependent distributed-order space-fractional diffusion equation
- Green’s function for the fractional KdV equation on the periodic domain via Mittag–Leffler function
- First order plus fractional diffusive delay modeling: Interconnected discrete systems
- On a solution of a fractional hyper-Bessel differential equation by means of a multi-index special function
- On the decomposition of solutions: From fractional diffusion to fractional Laplacian
- Output error MISO system identification using fractional models
- Short Paper
- Identification of system with distributed-order derivatives
- Short note
- On the Green function of the killed fractional Laplacian on the periodic domain