EQ rot 1 nonconforming finite element approximation to a class of nonlinear dual phase lagging heat conduction equations is discussed for semi-discrete and fully-discrete schemes. By use of a special property, that is, the consistency error of this element is of order O(h2 ) one order higher than its interpolation error O(h), the superclose results of order O(h2 ) in broken H1 -norm are obtained. At the same time, the global superconvergence in broken H1 -norm is deduced by interpolation postprocessing technique. Moreover, the extrapolation result with order O(h4 ) is derived by constructing a new interpolation postprocessing operator and extrapolation scheme based on the known asymptotic expansion formulas of EQ rot 1 element. Finally, optimal error estimate is gained for a proposed fully-discrete scheme by different approaches from the previous literature.
The block-by-block method,proposed by Linz for a kind of Volterra integral equations with nonsingular kernels,and extended by Kumar and Agrawal to a class of initial value problems of fractional differential equations(FDEs)with Caputo derivatives,is an efficient and stable scheme.We analytically prove and numerically verify that this method is convergent with order at least 3 for any fractional order indexα>0.
