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In this paper, we propose a conservative linearized Crank–Nicolson Galerkin FEMs for the nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation. We construct5 a time-discrete system, to which, the mass conservation, semi-discrete error estimates and the suitable regularity of the numerical solution are obtained. With the spatial direction discreted by FEMs, the fully discrete conservative linearized finite element scheme is presented. Moreover, by a new error splitting technique, an unconditional-norm error estimates are derived by the boundedness of the fully-discrete numerical solution in-norm. Finally, some numerical examples are given to confirm the theoretical results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we study Galerkin finite element methods for a class of higher dimensional multi-term fractional diffusion equations. The finite difference approximation of Caputo derivative on non-uniform meshes is used in temporal direction and Galerkin finite element method is used in spatial direction. We prove that semi-discrete and fully discrete finite element schemes are unconditionally stable. Meanwhile,-norm convergence properties of the two schemes are proved rigorously. To confirm our theoretical analysis, we give some numerical examples in both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) spaces. Finally, a moving local refinement technique in temporal direction is used to improve the accuracy of numerical solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]