Novel superconvergence analysis of a low order FEM for nonlinear time-fractional Joule heating problem.

The aim of this paper is to develop and investigate a fully-discrete scheme with conforming P 1 element for the nonlinear time-fractional Joule heating problem in which the Caputo derivative is approximated by the classical L 1 method. First, a novel superclose estimate in the H 1 -norm is derived rigorously with some new analysis techniques under low regularity of the solutions u n , ϕ n ∈ L ∞ (0 , T ; H 3 (Ω)) rather than u n ∈ L ∞ (0 , T ; H 4 (Ω)) and ϕ n ∈ L ∞ (0 , T ; H 3 (Ω) ∩ W 2 , ∞ (Ω)) required in the previous studies. Then, the global superconvergence result is deduced by interpolated post-processing approach. Finally, some numerical results are provided to verify the theoretical analysis. It should be mentioned that the analysis and results presented herein are also valid to some other known conforming and nonconforming finite elements. • The aim of this paper is to develop and investigate a fully-discrete scheme with conforming P 1 element for the nonlinear time-fractional Joule heating problem in which the Caputo derivative is approximated by the classical L 1 method. • A novel superclose estimate in the H 1 -norm is derived rigorously with some new analysis techniques under low regularity which improved the results in the previous studies. • The results obtained in our paper are also valid to conforming rectangular Q 1 element, nonconforming Q 1 r o t element on square meshes , and the nonconforming rectangular E Q 1 r o t element and so on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]