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Numerical solutions to time-fractional stochastic partial differential equations

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This study is concerned with numerical approximations of time-fractional stochastic heat-type equations driven by multiplicative noise, which can be used to model the anomalous diffusion in porous media with random effects with thermal memory. A standard finite element approximation is used in space as well as a spatial-temporal discretization which is achieved by a new algorithm in time direction. The strong convergence error estimates for both semidiscrete and fully discrete schemes in a semigroup framework are proved, which are based on the error estimates for the corresponding deterministic equations, and together with the optimal regularity results of mild solutions to the time-fractional SPDEs. Numerical results are finally reported to confirm our theoretical findings.

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We thank the referees very much for the constructive comments and valuable suggestions which would help us to improve the quality of the paper.

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This study is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11626085) and Key Scientifc Research Projects of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province, China (19A110002).

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Zou, Ga. Numerical solutions to time-fractional stochastic partial differential equations. Numer Algor 82, 553–571 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-018-0613-0

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