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In this article, we develop the local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method combined with theL2 formula to solve a fractional Cable model, where the BDF2 with theL2 formula for the fractional derivative is used to discretize the temporal direction, and the LDG method is used to approximate the spatial direction. The stability of the fully discrete LDG scheme is analyzed, and the rigorous optimal error estimate in\(L^2\)-norm is derived. Further, numerical examples with different boundary conditions are provided to validate our theory results.
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Authors thank three anonymous reviewers and Editor-in-Chief very much for their valuable comments and suggestions for improving our work. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12061053, 12161063), Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia (2020MS01003, 2021MS01018), Young Innovative Talents Project of Grassland Talents Project, Program for Innovative Research Team in Universities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (NMGIRT2207) and Scientific Research Projection of Higher Schools of Inner Mongolia (NJZY21266).
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Song, M., Wang, J., Liu, Y.et al. Local discontinuous Galerkin method combined with theL2 formula for the time fractional Cable model.J. Appl. Math. Comput.68, 4457–4478 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12190-022-01711-4
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