TY - JOUR T1 - Numerical Analysis of a High-Order Scheme for Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations with Uniform Accuracy AU - Cao , Junying AU - Cai , Zhenning JO - Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications VL - 1 SP - 71 EP - 112 PY - 2020 DA - 2020/10 SN - 14 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2020-0039 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nmtma/18328.html KW - Caputo derivative, fractional ordinary differential equations, high-order numerical scheme, stability and convergence analysis. AB -

We introduce a high-order numerical scheme for fractional ordinary differential equations with the Caputo derivative. The method is developed by dividing the domain into a number of subintervals, and applying the quadratic interpolation on each subinterval. The method is shown to be unconditionally stable, and for general nonlinear equations, the uniform sharp numerical order 3 − $ν$ can be rigorously proven for sufficiently smooth solutions at all time steps. The proof provides a general guide for proving the sharp order for higher-order schemes in the nonlinear case. Some numerical examples are given to validate our theoretical results.