In this article, a local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) method is studied for numerically solving the fractal mobile/immobile transport equation with a new time Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivative. The stability of the LDG scheme is proven, and a priori error estimates with the second-order temporal convergence rate and the (k + 1)th order spatial convergence rate are derived in detail. Finally, numerical experiments based on P k , k = 0, 1, 2, 3, elements are provided to verify our theoretical results.
KEYWORDSa priori error analysis, Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivative, fractal mobile/immobile transport equation, LDG method, stability 1 Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq. 2019;35:1588-1612. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/num © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1588 ] ds, (2.4)and c k ∈ (t k − 1 , t k ). By taking z(t) = u(x, t) in (2.2) at t = t n , we can obtain CF 0 t u(x, t n ) =