Innovative definitions of the electric and magnetic diffusivities through conducting mediums and innovative diffusion equations of the electric charges and magnetic flux are verified in this article. Such innovations ...Innovative definitions of the electric and magnetic diffusivities through conducting mediums and innovative diffusion equations of the electric charges and magnetic flux are verified in this article. Such innovations depend on the analogy of the governing laws of diffusion of the thermal, electrical, and magnetic energies and newly defined natures of the electric charges and magnetic flux as energy, or as electromagnetic waves, that have electric and magnetic potentials. The introduced diffusion equations of the electric charges and magnetic flux involve Laplacian operator and the introduced diffusivities. Both equations are applied to determine the electric and magnetic fields in conductors as the heat diffusion equation which is applied to determine the thermal field in steady and unsteady heat diffusion conditions. The use of electric networks for experimental modeling of thermal networks represents sufficient proof of similarity of the diffusion equations of both fields. By analysis of the diffusion phenomena of the three considered modes of energy transfer;the rates of flow of these energies are found to be directly proportional to the gradient of their volumetric concentration, or density, and the proportionality constants in such relations are the diffusivity of each energy. Such analysis leads also to find proportionality relations between the potentials of such energies and their volumetric concentrations. Validity of the introduced diffusion equations is verified by correspondence their solutions to the measurement results of the electric and magnetic fields in microwave ovens.展开更多
In this paper,a local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)scheme for the time-fractional diffusion equation is proposed and analyzed.The Caputo time-fractional derivative(of orderα,with 0<α<1)is approximated by a finit...In this paper,a local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)scheme for the time-fractional diffusion equation is proposed and analyzed.The Caputo time-fractional derivative(of orderα,with 0<α<1)is approximated by a finite difference method with an accuracy of order3-α,and the space discretization is based on the LDG method.For the finite difference method,we summarize and supplement some previous work by others,and apply it to the analysis of the convergence and stability of the proposed scheme.The optimal error estimate is obtained in the L2norm,indicating that the scheme has temporal(3-α)th-order accuracy and spatial(k+1)th-order accuracy,where k denotes the highest degree of a piecewise polynomial in discontinuous finite element space.The numerical results are also provided to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the considered scheme.展开更多
In this paper,finite difference schemes for solving time-space fractional diffusion equations in one dimension and two dimensions are proposed.The temporal derivative is in the Caputo-Hadamard sense for both cases.The...In this paper,finite difference schemes for solving time-space fractional diffusion equations in one dimension and two dimensions are proposed.The temporal derivative is in the Caputo-Hadamard sense for both cases.The spatial derivative for the one-dimensional equation is of Riesz definition and the two-dimensional spatial derivative is given by the fractional Laplacian.The schemes are proved to be unconditionally stable and convergent.The numerical results are in line with the theoretical analysis.展开更多
A mixed time discontinuous space-time finite element scheme for secondorder convection diffusion problems is constructed and analyzed. Order of the equation is lowered by the mixed finite element method. The low order...A mixed time discontinuous space-time finite element scheme for secondorder convection diffusion problems is constructed and analyzed. Order of the equation is lowered by the mixed finite element method. The low order equation is discretized with a space-time finite element method, continuous in space but discontinuous in time. Stability, existence, uniqueness and convergence of the approximate solutions are proved. Numerical results are presented to illustrate efficiency of the proposed method.展开更多
In this paper,we investigate a stochastic meshfree finite volume element method for an optimal control problem governed by the convection diffusion equations with random coefficients.There are two contributions of thi...In this paper,we investigate a stochastic meshfree finite volume element method for an optimal control problem governed by the convection diffusion equations with random coefficients.There are two contributions of this paper.Firstly,we establish a scheme to approximate the optimality system by using the finite volume element method in the physical space and the meshfree method in the probability space,which is competitive for high-dimensional random inputs.Secondly,the a priori error estimates are derived for the state,the co-state and the control variables.Some numerical tests are carried out to confirm the theoretical results and demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.展开更多
In this paper,we develop novel local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)methods for fractional diffusion equations with non-smooth solutions.We consider such problems,for which the solutions are not smooth at boundary,and the...In this paper,we develop novel local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)methods for fractional diffusion equations with non-smooth solutions.We consider such problems,for which the solutions are not smooth at boundary,and therefore the traditional LDG methods with piecewise polynomial solutions suffer accuracy degeneracy.The novel LDG methods utilize a solution information enriched basis,simulate the problem on a paired special mesh,and achieve optimal order of accuracy.We analyze the L2 stability and optimal error estimate in L2-norm.Finally,numerical examples are presented for validating the theoretical conclusions.展开更多
After discretization by the finite volume method,the numerical solution of fractional diffusion equations leads to a linear system with the Toeplitz-like structure.The theoretical analysis gives sufficient conditions ...After discretization by the finite volume method,the numerical solution of fractional diffusion equations leads to a linear system with the Toeplitz-like structure.The theoretical analysis gives sufficient conditions to guarantee the positive-definite property of the discretized matrix.Moreover,we develop a class of positive-definite operator splitting iteration methods for the numerical solution of fractional diffusion equations,which is unconditionally convergent for any positive constant.Meanwhile,the iteration methods introduce a new preconditioner for Krylov subspace methods.Numerical experiments verify the convergence of the positive-definite operator splitting iteration methods and show the efficiency of the proposed preconditioner,compared with the existing approaches.展开更多
A class of nonlinear singularly perturbed problems for reaction diffusion equations are considered. Under suitable conditions, by using the theory of differential inequalities, the asymptotic behavior of solutions for...A class of nonlinear singularly perturbed problems for reaction diffusion equations are considered. Under suitable conditions, by using the theory of differential inequalities, the asymptotic behavior of solutions for the initial boundary value problems are studied, reduced problems of which possess two intersecting solutions.展开更多
In this paper,we apply the Fourier analysis technique to investigate superconvergence properties of the direct disontinuous Galerkin(DDG)method(Liu and Yan in SIAM J Numer Anal 47(1):475-698,2009),the DDG method with ...In this paper,we apply the Fourier analysis technique to investigate superconvergence properties of the direct disontinuous Galerkin(DDG)method(Liu and Yan in SIAM J Numer Anal 47(1):475-698,2009),the DDG method with the interface correction(DDGIC)(Liu and Yan in Commun Comput Phys 8(3):541-564,2010),the symmetric DDG method(Vidden and Yan in Comput Math 31(6):638-662,2013),and the nonsymmetric DDG method(Yan in J Sci Comput 54(2):663-683,2013).We also include the study of the interior penalty DG(IPDG)method,due to its close relation to DDG methods.Error estimates are carried out for both P2 and P3 polynomial approximations.By investigating the quantitative errors at the Lobatto points,we show that the DDGIC and symmetric DDG methods are superior,in the sense of obtaining(k+2)th superconvergence orders for both P2 and P3 approximations.Superconvergence order of(k+2)is also observed for the IPDG method with P3 polynomial approximations.The errors are sensitive to the choice of the numerical flux coefficient for even degree P2 approximations,but are not for odd degree P3 approxi-mations.Numerical experiments are carried out at the same time and the numerical errors match well with the analytically estimated errors.展开更多
The functionally generalized variable separation of the generalized nonlinear diffusion equations ut = A(u, Ux)Uxx + B(u, ux) is studied by using the conditional Lie-Blicklund symmetry method. The variant forms o...The functionally generalized variable separation of the generalized nonlinear diffusion equations ut = A(u, Ux)Uxx + B(u, ux) is studied by using the conditional Lie-Blicklund symmetry method. The variant forms of the considered equations, which admit the corresponding conditional Lie--Biicklund symmetries, are characterized. To construct functionally gener- alized separable solutions, several concrete examples defined on the exponential and trigonometric invariant subspaces are provided.展开更多
The singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations are considered.Under suitable conditions and by using the theory of differential inequality,the asymptotic behavior of solution...The singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations are considered.Under suitable conditions and by using the theory of differential inequality,the asymptotic behavior of solution for initial boundary value problems are studied,where the reduced problems possess two intersecting solutions.展开更多
A class of singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations in a part of domain are considered. Using the operator theory the asymptotic behavior of solution for the problems i...A class of singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations in a part of domain are considered. Using the operator theory the asymptotic behavior of solution for the problems is studied.展开更多
The variational iteration method is successfully extended to the case of solving fractional differential equations, and the Lagrange multiplier of the method is identified in a more accurate way. Some diffusion models...The variational iteration method is successfully extended to the case of solving fractional differential equations, and the Lagrange multiplier of the method is identified in a more accurate way. Some diffusion models with fractional derivatives are investigated analytically, and the results show the efficiency of the new Lagrange multiplier for fractional differential equations of arbitrary order.展开更多
The fractional diffusion equation is one of the most important partial differential equations(PDEs) to model problems in mathematical physics. These PDEs are more practical when those are combined with uncertainties...The fractional diffusion equation is one of the most important partial differential equations(PDEs) to model problems in mathematical physics. These PDEs are more practical when those are combined with uncertainties. Accordingly, this paper investigates the numerical solution of a non-probabilistic viz. fuzzy fractional-order diffusion equation subjected to various external forces. A fuzzy diffusion equation having fractional order 0 〈 α≤ 1 with fuzzy initial condition is taken into consideration. Fuzziness appearing in the initial conditions is modelled through convex normalized triangular and Gaussian fuzzy numbers. A new computational technique is proposed based on double parametric form of fuzzy numbers to handle the fuzzy fractional diffusion equation. Using the single parametric form of fuzzy numbers, the original fuzzy diffusion equation is converted first into an interval-based fuzzy differential equation. Next, this equation is transformed into crisp form by using the proposed double parametric form of fuzzy numbers. Finally, the same is solved by Adomian decomposition method(ADM) symbolically to obtain the uncertain bounds of the solution. Computed results are depicted in terms of plots. Results obtained by the proposed method are compared with the existing results in special cases.展开更多
A class of initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations are considered.The asymptotic behavior of solution for the problem is obtained using the theory of differential inequality.
A class of nonlinear singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations with two parameters and boundary perturbation were considered.Under suitable conditions,the existence,uniquene...A class of nonlinear singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations with two parameters and boundary perturbation were considered.Under suitable conditions,the existence,uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of solutions for the initial boundary value problems were studied.An example was also given to illustrate our main results.展开更多
In this paper,we study the large time behavior of solutions to a class of fast diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary sources on the exterior domain of the unit ball.We are interested in the critical global expon...In this paper,we study the large time behavior of solutions to a class of fast diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary sources on the exterior domain of the unit ball.We are interested in the critical global exponent q_o and the critical Fujita exponent q_c for the problem considered,and show that q_o=q_c for the multidimensional Non-Newtonian polytropic filtration equation with nonlinear boundary sources,which is quite different from the known results that q_o〈q_c for the onedimensional case;moreover,the value is different from the slow case.展开更多
By using the approximate derivative-dependent functional variable separation approach, we study the quasi-linear diffusion equations with a weak source ut = (A(u)Ux)x + eB(u, Ux). A complete classification of t...By using the approximate derivative-dependent functional variable separation approach, we study the quasi-linear diffusion equations with a weak source ut = (A(u)Ux)x + eB(u, Ux). A complete classification of these perturbed equations which admit approximate derivative-dependent functional separable solutions is listed. As a consequence, some approxi- mate solutions to the resulting perturbed equations are constructed via examples.展开更多
The generialized Kuramoto Sivashinski equation and Fisher equation in chemical reaction diffusion was studied in this paper. By introducing a new method, the anthors obtained the exact traveling wave solution for th...The generialized Kuramoto Sivashinski equation and Fisher equation in chemical reaction diffusion was studied in this paper. By introducing a new method, the anthors obtained the exact traveling wave solution for the two types of reaction diffusion equations.展开更多
We study an indirect finite element approximation for two-sided space-fractional diffusion equations in one space dimension.By the representation formula of the solutions u(x)to the proposed variable coefficient model...We study an indirect finite element approximation for two-sided space-fractional diffusion equations in one space dimension.By the representation formula of the solutions u(x)to the proposed variable coefficient models in terms of v(x),the solutions to the constant coefficient analogues,we apply finite element methods for the constant coefficient fractional diffusion equations to solve for the approximations vh(x)to v(x)and then obtain the approximations uh(x)of u(x)by plugging vh(x)into the representation of u(x).Optimal-order convergence estimates of u(x)−uh(x)are proved in both L2 and Hα∕2 norms.Several numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the sharpness of the derived error estimates.展开更多
文摘Innovative definitions of the electric and magnetic diffusivities through conducting mediums and innovative diffusion equations of the electric charges and magnetic flux are verified in this article. Such innovations depend on the analogy of the governing laws of diffusion of the thermal, electrical, and magnetic energies and newly defined natures of the electric charges and magnetic flux as energy, or as electromagnetic waves, that have electric and magnetic potentials. The introduced diffusion equations of the electric charges and magnetic flux involve Laplacian operator and the introduced diffusivities. Both equations are applied to determine the electric and magnetic fields in conductors as the heat diffusion equation which is applied to determine the thermal field in steady and unsteady heat diffusion conditions. The use of electric networks for experimental modeling of thermal networks represents sufficient proof of similarity of the diffusion equations of both fields. By analysis of the diffusion phenomena of the three considered modes of energy transfer;the rates of flow of these energies are found to be directly proportional to the gradient of their volumetric concentration, or density, and the proportionality constants in such relations are the diffusivity of each energy. Such analysis leads also to find proportionality relations between the potentials of such energies and their volumetric concentrations. Validity of the introduced diffusion equations is verified by correspondence their solutions to the measurement results of the electric and magnetic fields in microwave ovens.
基金supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(11931003)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41974133)。
文摘In this paper,a local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)scheme for the time-fractional diffusion equation is proposed and analyzed.The Caputo time-fractional derivative(of orderα,with 0<α<1)is approximated by a finite difference method with an accuracy of order3-α,and the space discretization is based on the LDG method.For the finite difference method,we summarize and supplement some previous work by others,and apply it to the analysis of the convergence and stability of the proposed scheme.The optimal error estimate is obtained in the L2norm,indicating that the scheme has temporal(3-α)th-order accuracy and spatial(k+1)th-order accuracy,where k denotes the highest degree of a piecewise polynomial in discontinuous finite element space.The numerical results are also provided to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the considered scheme.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.12271339 and 12201391.
文摘In this paper,finite difference schemes for solving time-space fractional diffusion equations in one dimension and two dimensions are proposed.The temporal derivative is in the Caputo-Hadamard sense for both cases.The spatial derivative for the one-dimensional equation is of Riesz definition and the two-dimensional spatial derivative is given by the fractional Laplacian.The schemes are proved to be unconditionally stable and convergent.The numerical results are in line with the theoretical analysis.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10601022)NSF ofInner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China (No. 200607010106)513 and Science Fund of InnerMongolia University for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. ND0702)
文摘A mixed time discontinuous space-time finite element scheme for secondorder convection diffusion problems is constructed and analyzed. Order of the equation is lowered by the mixed finite element method. The low order equation is discretized with a space-time finite element method, continuous in space but discontinuous in time. Stability, existence, uniqueness and convergence of the approximate solutions are proved. Numerical results are presented to illustrate efficiency of the proposed method.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11701253,11971259,11801216)Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2017BA010)。
文摘In this paper,we investigate a stochastic meshfree finite volume element method for an optimal control problem governed by the convection diffusion equations with random coefficients.There are two contributions of this paper.Firstly,we establish a scheme to approximate the optimality system by using the finite volume element method in the physical space and the meshfree method in the probability space,which is competitive for high-dimensional random inputs.Secondly,the a priori error estimates are derived for the state,the co-state and the control variables.Some numerical tests are carried out to confirm the theoretical results and demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.
文摘In this paper,we develop novel local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)methods for fractional diffusion equations with non-smooth solutions.We consider such problems,for which the solutions are not smooth at boundary,and therefore the traditional LDG methods with piecewise polynomial solutions suffer accuracy degeneracy.The novel LDG methods utilize a solution information enriched basis,simulate the problem on a paired special mesh,and achieve optimal order of accuracy.We analyze the L2 stability and optimal error estimate in L2-norm.Finally,numerical examples are presented for validating the theoretical conclusions.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11971354)The author Yi-Shu Du acknowledges the financial support from the China Scholarship Council(File No.201906260146).
文摘After discretization by the finite volume method,the numerical solution of fractional diffusion equations leads to a linear system with the Toeplitz-like structure.The theoretical analysis gives sufficient conditions to guarantee the positive-definite property of the discretized matrix.Moreover,we develop a class of positive-definite operator splitting iteration methods for the numerical solution of fractional diffusion equations,which is unconditionally convergent for any positive constant.Meanwhile,the iteration methods introduce a new preconditioner for Krylov subspace methods.Numerical experiments verify the convergence of the positive-definite operator splitting iteration methods and show the efficiency of the proposed preconditioner,compared with the existing approaches.
基金The Importent Study Profect of the National Natural Science Poundation of China(90211004)The Natural Sciences Foundation of Zheiiang(102009)
文摘A class of nonlinear singularly perturbed problems for reaction diffusion equations are considered. Under suitable conditions, by using the theory of differential inequalities, the asymptotic behavior of solutions for the initial boundary value problems are studied, reduced problems of which possess two intersecting solutions.
基金the National Science Foundation grant DMS-1620335 and Simons Foundation Grant 637716Research work of Xinghui Zhong is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grant no.11871428).
文摘In this paper,we apply the Fourier analysis technique to investigate superconvergence properties of the direct disontinuous Galerkin(DDG)method(Liu and Yan in SIAM J Numer Anal 47(1):475-698,2009),the DDG method with the interface correction(DDGIC)(Liu and Yan in Commun Comput Phys 8(3):541-564,2010),the symmetric DDG method(Vidden and Yan in Comput Math 31(6):638-662,2013),and the nonsymmetric DDG method(Yan in J Sci Comput 54(2):663-683,2013).We also include the study of the interior penalty DG(IPDG)method,due to its close relation to DDG methods.Error estimates are carried out for both P2 and P3 polynomial approximations.By investigating the quantitative errors at the Lobatto points,we show that the DDGIC and symmetric DDG methods are superior,in the sense of obtaining(k+2)th superconvergence orders for both P2 and P3 approximations.Superconvergence order of(k+2)is also observed for the IPDG method with P3 polynomial approximations.The errors are sensitive to the choice of the numerical flux coefficient for even degree P2 approximations,but are not for odd degree P3 approxi-mations.Numerical experiments are carried out at the same time and the numerical errors match well with the analytically estimated errors.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11371293,11401458,and 11501438)the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Tian Yuan Special Foundation(Grant No.11426169)the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(Gran No.2015JQ1014)
文摘The functionally generalized variable separation of the generalized nonlinear diffusion equations ut = A(u, Ux)Uxx + B(u, ux) is studied by using the conditional Lie-Blicklund symmetry method. The variant forms of the considered equations, which admit the corresponding conditional Lie--Biicklund symmetries, are characterized. To construct functionally gener- alized separable solutions, several concrete examples defined on the exponential and trigonometric invariant subspaces are provided.
基金Supported by the National Natural Scince Foundation of China( 1 0 0 71 0 4 8) ,and the"Hundred TalentsProject"of Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘The singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations are considered.Under suitable conditions and by using the theory of differential inequality,the asymptotic behavior of solution for initial boundary value problems are studied,where the reduced problems possess two intersecting solutions.
文摘A class of singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations in a part of domain are considered. Using the operator theory the asymptotic behavior of solution for the problems is studied.
基金Project supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51134018).
文摘The variational iteration method is successfully extended to the case of solving fractional differential equations, and the Lagrange multiplier of the method is identified in a more accurate way. Some diffusion models with fractional derivatives are investigated analytically, and the results show the efficiency of the new Lagrange multiplier for fractional differential equations of arbitrary order.
基金the UGC,Government of India,for financial support under Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship(RGNF)
文摘The fractional diffusion equation is one of the most important partial differential equations(PDEs) to model problems in mathematical physics. These PDEs are more practical when those are combined with uncertainties. Accordingly, this paper investigates the numerical solution of a non-probabilistic viz. fuzzy fractional-order diffusion equation subjected to various external forces. A fuzzy diffusion equation having fractional order 0 〈 α≤ 1 with fuzzy initial condition is taken into consideration. Fuzziness appearing in the initial conditions is modelled through convex normalized triangular and Gaussian fuzzy numbers. A new computational technique is proposed based on double parametric form of fuzzy numbers to handle the fuzzy fractional diffusion equation. Using the single parametric form of fuzzy numbers, the original fuzzy diffusion equation is converted first into an interval-based fuzzy differential equation. Next, this equation is transformed into crisp form by using the proposed double parametric form of fuzzy numbers. Finally, the same is solved by Adomian decomposition method(ADM) symbolically to obtain the uncertain bounds of the solution. Computed results are depicted in terms of plots. Results obtained by the proposed method are compared with the existing results in special cases.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China( 90 2 1 1 0 0 4 ,1 0 4 71 0 39) ,and by the"Hundred Talents Project"of Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘A class of initial boundary value problems for the reaction diffusion equations are considered.The asymptotic behavior of solution for the problem is obtained using the theory of differential inequality.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11271372)Hunan Provincial National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12JJ2004)the Graduate Innovation Project of Central South University,China(No.2014zzts136)
文摘A class of nonlinear singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations with two parameters and boundary perturbation were considered.Under suitable conditions,the existence,uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of solutions for the initial boundary value problems were studied.An example was also given to illustrate our main results.
基金The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the NSF(11071100) of China
文摘In this paper,we study the large time behavior of solutions to a class of fast diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary sources on the exterior domain of the unit ball.We are interested in the critical global exponent q_o and the critical Fujita exponent q_c for the problem considered,and show that q_o=q_c for the multidimensional Non-Newtonian polytropic filtration equation with nonlinear boundary sources,which is quite different from the known results that q_o〈q_c for the onedimensional case;moreover,the value is different from the slow case.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.10671156)the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province of China(Grant No.SJ08A05)
文摘By using the approximate derivative-dependent functional variable separation approach, we study the quasi-linear diffusion equations with a weak source ut = (A(u)Ux)x + eB(u, Ux). A complete classification of these perturbed equations which admit approximate derivative-dependent functional separable solutions is listed. As a consequence, some approxi- mate solutions to the resulting perturbed equations are constructed via examples.
文摘The generialized Kuramoto Sivashinski equation and Fisher equation in chemical reaction diffusion was studied in this paper. By introducing a new method, the anthors obtained the exact traveling wave solution for the two types of reaction diffusion equations.
基金the OSD/ARO MURI Grant W911NF-15-1-0562the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-1620194.
文摘We study an indirect finite element approximation for two-sided space-fractional diffusion equations in one space dimension.By the representation formula of the solutions u(x)to the proposed variable coefficient models in terms of v(x),the solutions to the constant coefficient analogues,we apply finite element methods for the constant coefficient fractional diffusion equations to solve for the approximations vh(x)to v(x)and then obtain the approximations uh(x)of u(x)by plugging vh(x)into the representation of u(x).Optimal-order convergence estimates of u(x)−uh(x)are proved in both L2 and Hα∕2 norms.Several numerical experiments are presented to demonstrate the sharpness of the derived error estimates.