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Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 293 (2016) 94–111 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics journal homepage: /locate/cam A simple finite element method for boundary value problems with a Riemann–Liouville derivative Bangti Jin a,∗, Raytcho Lazarov b , Xiliang Lu c , Zhi Zhou b a Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK b Department of Mathematics, Texas AM University, College Station, TX 77843-3368, USA c School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We consider a boundary value problem involving a Riemann–Liouville fractional deriva- Received 17 November 2014 tive of order α ∈ (3/2, 2) on the unit interval (0, 1). The standard Galerkin finite element Received in revised form 26 February 2015 approximation converges slowly due to the presence of singularity term xα −1 in the solu- tion representation. In this work, we develop a simple technique, by transforming it into MSC: a second-order two-point boundary value problem with nonlocal low order terms, whose 34B24 solution can reconstruct directly the solution to the original problem. The stability of the 45J05 47G20 variational formulation, and the optimal regularity pickup of the solution are analyzed. A novel G