“…In fact, all prevalent techniques for spatial discretization can be applied to the viscoelastic equation. See, for example, [9,45] for finite element methods, [3,17,25,38] for mixed finite element methods, [20,54] for finite difference methods, [22,23] for generalized finite difference methods (also known as finite volume element methods), [43] for discontinuous Galerkin methods and [49] for weak Galerkin finite element methods. Recently, the meshless methods also attract much attention in solving the viscoelastic equation (1.1), see for instance [35,37].…”