Abstract
Herein, we mainly focus on developing a new two-grid Crank-Nicolson (CN) mixed finite element (MFE) (TGCNMFE) method for the generalized nonlinear time fractional fourth-order reaction diffusion equation. To do so, by introducing an auxiliary function, the nonlinear time fractional fourth-order reaction diffusion equation is first split into two second-order nonlinear equations. Thereafter, a new time semi-discrete mixed CN (TSDMCN) scheme is constructed through discretizing the time derivative and time fractional derivative by the CN difference quotient, and the existence, steadiness, and errors of the TSDMCN solutions are analysed. Next, a new TGCNMFE method is developed through using two-grid MFE technique to discretize the spacial variables, and the existence, steadiness, and error estimations for the TGCNMFE solutions are discussed. Lastly, the correctness of theory results and the superiority of the TGCNMFE method are verified by some numerical experiments.
Keywords
numerical simulations
finite element method
finite difference scheme
finite volume element method
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 11671106.
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Li, Y., & Luo, Z. (2025). The TGCNMFE Method for the Generalized Nonlinear Time Fractional Fourth-Order Reaction Diffusion Equation. Journal of Numerical Simulations in Physics and Mathematics, 1(1), 18-31. https://doi.org/10.62762/JNSPM.2025.256666
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