Superconvergence analysis of interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for a class of time-fractional diffusion problems

In this study, we consider a class of non-autonomous time-fractional partial advection–diffusion-reaction equations with Caputo-type fractional derivative. To obtain the numerical solution to the model problem, we apply the non-symmetric interior penalty Galerkin method in space on a uniform mesh and the L1-scheme in time on a graded mesh. It is demonstrated that the computed solution is discretely stable. Superconvergence of error estimates for the proposed method is obtained using the discrete energy-norm. Also, we have applied the proposed method to solve semi-linear problems after linearizing by Newton’s linearization process. The theoretical results are verified through numerical experiments.