Fem for time-fractional diffusion equations, novel optimal error analyses

A semidiscrete Galerkin finite element method applied to timefractional diffusion equations with time-space dependent diffusivity on bounded convex spatial domains will be studied. Themain focus is on achieving optimal error results with respect to both the convergence order of the approximate solution and the regularity of the initial data. By using novel energy arguments, for each fixed time t, optimal error bounds in the spatial L²- and H¹-norms are derived for both cases: smooth and nonsmooth initial data. Some numerical results will be provided at the end.