A Class of Semi-Implicit Parallel Difference Method for Time Fractional Diffusion Equations

In this paper, we construct a class of semi-implicit difference method for time fractional diffusion equations—the group explicit (GE) difference scheme, which is a difference scheme with good parallelism constructed using Saul’yev asymmetric scheme. The stability and convergence of the GE scheme of time fractional diffusion equation are analyzed by mathematical induction. Then, the theoretical analysis is verified by numerical experiments, which shows that the GE scheme is effective for solving the time fractional diffusion equation.

Alternating Segment Explicit-Implicit and Implicit-Explicit Parallel Difference Method for Time Fractional Sub-Diffusion Equation

The fractional diffusion equations can accurately describe the migration process of anomalous diffusion, which are widely applied in the field of natural science and engineering calculations. This paper proposed a kind of numerical methods with parallel nature which were the alternating segment explicit-implicit (ASE-I) and implicit-explicit (ASI-E) difference method for the time fractional sub-diffusion equation. It is based on the combination of the explicit scheme, implicit scheme, improved Saul’yev asymmetric scheme and the alternating segment technique. Theoretical analyses have shown that the solution of ASE-I (ASI-E) scheme is uniquely solvable. At the same time the stability and convergence of the two schemes were proved by the mathematical induction. The theoretical analyses are verified by numerical experiments. Meanwhile the ASE-I (ASI-E) scheme has the higher computational efficiency compared with the implicit scheme. Therefore it is feasible to use the parallel difference schemes for solving the time fractional diffusion equation.

PARALLEL COMPUTING METHOD OF PURE ALTERNATIVE SEGMENT EXPLICIT-IMPLICIT DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR NONLINEAR LELAND EQUATION

The research on the numerical solution of the nonlinear Leland equation has important theoretical significance and practical value. To solve nonlinear Leland equation, this paper offers a class of difference schemes with parallel nature which are pure alternative segment explicit-implicit(PASE-I) and implicit-explicit(PASI-E) schemes. It also gives the existence and uniqueness,the stability and the error estimate of numerical solutions for the parallel difference schemes. Theoretical analysis demonstrates that PASE-I and PASI-E schemes have obvious parallelism, unconditionally stability and second-order convergence in both space and time. The numerical experiments verify that the calculation accuracy of PASE-I and PASI-E schemes are better than that of the existing alternating segment Crank-Nicolson scheme, alternating segment explicit-implicit and implicit-explicit schemes. The speedup of PASE-I scheme is 9.89, compared to classical Crank-Nicolson scheme. Thus the schemes given by this paper are high efficient and practical for solving the nonlinear Leland equation.