TY - JOUR T1 - A Second-Order Accurate Implicit Difference Scheme for Time Fractional Reaction-Diffusion Equation with Variable Coefficients and Time Drift Term AU - Zhao , Yong-Liang AU - Zhu , Pei-Yong AU - Gu , Xian-Ming AU - Zhao , Xi-Le JO - East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics VL - 4 SP - 723 EP - 754 PY - 2019 DA - 2019/10 SN - 9 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/eajam.200618.250319 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/eajam/13330.html KW - Caputo fractional derivative, L2-1σ-formula, finite difference scheme, time fractional reaction-diffusion equation, iterative method. AB -

Two implicit finite difference schemes combined with the Alikhanov's $L$2-1$σ$-formula are applied to one- and two-dimensional time fractional reaction-diffusion equations with variable coefficients and time drift term. The unconditional stability and $L$2-convergence of the methods are established. It is shown that the convergence order of the methods is equal to 2 both in time and space. Numerical experiments confirm the theoretical results. Moreover, since the arising linear systems can be ill-conditioned, three preconditioned iterative methods are employed.