Collocation Finite Element Method for the Fractional Fokker–Planck Equation

ABSTRACT In this study, the approximate results of the fractional Fokker–Planck equations have been investigated. First, finite element schemes have been obtained using collocation finite element method based on the trigonometric quintic B‐spline basis functions. Then, the present method is tested on two fundamental problems having appropriate initial conditions. The newly obtained numerical results contained the error norms and for various temporal and spatial steps are compared with the exact ones and other solutions. More accurate results have been obtained for large numbers of spatial and temporal elements.