Numerical Investigation of the Three-Dimensional Time-Fractional Extended Fisher-Kolmogorov Equation via a Meshless Method

Abstract

In this paper, we develop an efficient meshless technique for solving numerical solutions of the three-dimensional time-fractional extended Fisher-Kolmogorov (TF-EFK) equation. Firstly, the $L2-1_σ$ formula on a general mesh is used to discretize the Caputo fractional derivative, and then a weighted average technique at two neighboring time levels is adopted to implement the time discretization of the TF-EFK equation. After applying this time discretization, the generalized finite difference method (GFDM) is introduced for the space discretization to solve the fourth-order nonlinear algebra system generated from the TF-EFK equation with an arbitrary domain. Numerical examples are investigated to validate the performance of the proposed meshless GFDM in solving the TF-EFK equation in high dimensions with complex domains.