Numerical solutions and solitary wave solutions of fractional KDV equations using modified fractional reduced differential transform method

In this paper, the modified fractional reduced differential transform method (MFRDTM) has been proposed and it is implemented for solving fractional KdV (Korteweg-de Vries) equations. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. In this paper, the reduced differential transform method is modified to be easily employed to solve wide kinds of nonlinear fractional differential equations. In this new approach, the nonlinear term is replaced by its Adomian polynomials. Thus the nonlinear initial-value problem can be easily solved with less computational effort. In order to show the power and effectiveness of the present modified method and to illustrate the pertinent features of the solutions, several fractional KdV equations with different types of nonlinearities are considered. The results reveal that the proposed method is very effective and simple for obtaining approximate solutions of fractional KdV equations.     

A novel method for travelling wave solutions of fractional Whitham–Broer–Kaup,fractional modified Boussinesq and fractional approximate long wave equations in shallow water

In this paper, the analytical approximate traveling wave solutions of Whitham–Broer–Kaup (WBK) equations, which contain blow‐up solutions and periodic solutions, have been obtained by using the coupled fractional reduced differential transform method. By using this method, the solutions were calculated in the form of a generalized Taylor series with easily computable components. The convergence of the method as applied to the WBK equations is illustrated numerically as well as analytically. By using the present method, we can solve many linear and nonlinear coupled fractional differential equations. The results justify that the proposed method is also very efficient, effective and simple for obtaining approximate solutions of fractional coupled modified Boussinesq and fractional approximate long wave equations. Numerical solutions are presented graphically to show the reliability and efficiency of the method. Moreover, the results are compared with those obtained by the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) and variational iteration method (VIM), revealing that the present method is superior to others. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A new Jacobi operational matrix: An application for solving fractional differential equations

In this paper, we derived the shifted Jacobi operational matrix (JOM) of fractional derivatives which is applied together with spectral tau method for numerical solution of general linear multi-term fractional differential equations (FDEs). A new approach implementing shifted Jacobi operational matrix in combination with the shifted Jacobi collocation technique is introduced for the numerical solution of nonlinear multi-term FDEs. The main characteristic behind this approach is that it reduces such problems to those of solving a system of algebraic equations which greatly simplifying the problem. The proposed methods are applied for solving linear and nonlinear multi-term FDEs subject to initial or boundary conditions, and the exact solutions are obtained for some tested problems. Special attention is given to the comparison of the numerical results obtained by the new algorithm with those found by other known methods.     

The alternative Legendre Tau method for solving nonlinear multi-order fractional differential equations

In this paper, the alternative Legendre polynomials (ALPs) are used to approximate the solution of a class of nonlinear multi-order fractional differential equations (FDEs). First, the operational matrix of fractional integration of an arbitrary order and the product operational matrix are derived for ALPs. These matrices together with the spectral Tau method are then utilized to reduce the solution of the mentioned equations into the one of solving a system of nonlinear algebraic equations with unknown ALP coefficients of the exact solution. The fractional derivatives are considered in the Caputo sense and the fractional integration is described in the Riemann-Liouville sense. Numerical examples illustrate that the present method is very effective for linear and nonlinear multi-order FDEs and high accuracy solutions can be obtained only using a small number of ALPs.     

On the solution of time-fractional dynamical model of Brusselator reaction-diffusion system arising in chemical reactions

Fractional Brusselator reaction-diffusion system (BRDS) is used for modeling of specific chemical reaction-diffusion processes. It may be noted that numerous models in nonlinear science are defined by fractional differential equations (FDEs) in which an unknown function appears under the operation of a fractional-order derivative. Even though many researchers have studied the applicability and practicality of this model, the analytical approach of this model is rarely found in the literature. In this investigation, a novel semi-analytical technique called fractional reduced differential transform method (FRDTM) has been applied to solve the present model, which is characterized by the time-fractional derivative (FD). Obtained outcomes are compared with the solution of other existing methods for a particular case. Also, the convergence analysis of this model has been studied here.     

Solving systems of fractional differential equations using differential transform method

This paper presents approximate analytical solutions for systems of fractional differential equations using the differential transform method. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. The application of differential transform method, developed for differential equations of integer order, is extended to derive approximate analytical solutions of systems of fractional differential equations. The solutions of our model equations are calculated in the form of convergent series with easily computable components. Some examples are solved as illustrations, using symbolic computation. The numerical results show that the approach is easy to implement and accurate when applied to systems of fractional differential equations. The method introduces a promising tool for solving many linear and nonlinear fractional differential equations.     

Numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations of fractional order

In this article, we implement relatively new analytical techniques, the variational iteration method and the Adomian decomposition method, for solving nonlinear partial differential equations of fractional order. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. The two methods in applied mathematics can be used as alternative methods for obtaining analytic and approximate solutions for different types of fractional differential equations. In these schemes, the solution takes the form of a convergent series with easily computable components. Numerical results show that the two approaches are easy to implement and accurate when applied to partial differential equations of fractional order.     

Existence and uniqueness of solution for a class of nonlinear sequential differential equations of fractional order

Two-term semi-linear and two-term nonlinear fractional differential equations (FDEs) with sequential Caputo derivatives are considered. A unique continuous solution is derived using the equivalent norms/metrics method and the Banach theorem on a fixed point. Both, the unique general solution connected to the stationary function of the highest order derivative and the unique particular solution generated by the initial value problem, are explicitly constructed and proven to exist in an arbitrary interval, provided the nonlinear terms fulfil the corresponding Lipschitz condition. The existence-uniqueness results are given for an arbitrary order of the FDE and an arbitrary partition of orders between the components of sequential derivatives.     

联合Duffing方程和Van der Pol方程的非线性分数阶微分方程

本文研究了Adomian分解方法在非线性分数阶微分方程求解中的应用. 利用Riemann-Liouville分数阶导数和Adomian分解方法, 将Duffing方程和Van der Pol方程联合在一个分数阶方程中,并获得了此方程的解析近似解.     

A New and Elegant Approach for Solving $$\varvec{n \times n}$$-Order Linear Fractional Differential Equations

The application of fractional differential equations (FDEs) in the fields of science and engineering are gradually increasing day by day during the last two decades. The solutions of linear systems of FDEs are of great importance. Several investigations are carried out on such systems using eigenvalue analysis or Laplace transform method. But both the methods have limitations, and as of now there are no methods for solving \(n \times n\)-order linear FDEs. In the present investigation, the issues of such difficulties are addressed, and the exact solutions of linear \(2 \times 2\)-order linear FDEs are presented by Laplace transform. We are unable to provide the exact solutions of such system of order \(n \times n\) by Laplace transform. To overcome this, we provide a new and elegant approach to find the approximate solutions of \(n \times n\)-order linear FDEs with the help of residual power series (RPS) method. The results thus obtained are verified by providing numerous examples.     

Numerical approach to differential equations of fractional order

In this paper, the variational iteration method and the Adomian decomposition method are implemented to give approximate solutions for linear and nonlinear systems of differential equations of fractional order. The two methods in applied mathematics can be used as alternative methods for obtaining analytic and approximate solutions for different types of differential equations. In these schemes, the solution takes the form of a convergent series with easily computable components. This paper presents a numerical comparison between the two methods for solving systems of fractional differential equations. Numerical results show that the two approaches are easy to implement and accurate when applied to differential equations of fractional order.     

Adomian polynomials: A powerful tool for iterative methods of series solution of nonlinear equations

In this article, we illustrate how the Adomian polynomials can be utilized with different types of iterative series solution methods for nonlinear equations. Two methods are considered here: the differential transform method that transforms a problem into a recurrence algebraic equation and the homotopy analysis method as a generalization of the methods that use inverse integral operator. The advantage of the proposed techniques is that equations with any analytic nonlinearity can be solved with less computational work due to the properties and available algorithms of the Adomian polynomials. Numerical examples of initial and boundary value problems for differential and integro-differential equations with different types of nonlinearities show good results.     

Nonlinear stability of Runge-Kutta methods applied to infinite-delay-differential equations

In functional differential equations (FDEs), there is a class of infinite delay-differential equations (IDDEs) with proportional delays, which aries in many scientific fields such as electric mechanics, quantum mechanics, and optics. Ones have found that there exist very different mathematical challenges between FDEs with proportional delays and those with constant delays. Some research on the numerical solutions and the corresponding analysis for the linear FDEs with proportional delays have been presented by several authors. However, up to now, the research for nonlinear case still remains to be done. For this, in the present paper, we deal with nonlinear stability of the Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for a class of IDDEs with proportional delays. It is shown under the suitable conditions that a (k, l)-algebraically stable RK method for this kind of nonlinear IDDE is globally and asymptotically stable.     

Series Solutions of Systems of Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations

Differential equations of fractional order appear in many applications in physics, chemistry and engineering. An effective and easy-to-use method for solving such equations is needed. In this paper, series solutions of the FDEs are presented using the homotopy analysis method (HAM). The HAM provides a convenient way of controlling the convergence region and rate of the series solution. It is confirmed that the HAM series solutions contain the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) solution as special cases.      

The fractional variational iteration method improved with the Adomian series

In this work, an improved version of the fractional variational iteration method is presented, for solving fractional initial value problems. The nonlinear terms of fractional differential equations are linearized via the famous Adomian series. The fractional differential functions are employed in the numerical simulation. Two examples are given as illustrations.     

An efficient algorithm for the multivariable Adomian polynomials

In this article the sum of the series of multivariable Adomian polynomials is demonstrated to be identical to a rearrangement of the multivariable Taylor expansion of an analytic function of the decomposition series of solutions u₁, u₂, … , u_m about the initial solution components u_1,0, u_2,0, … , u_m,0; of course the multivariable Adomian polynomials were developed and are eminently practical for the solution of coupled nonlinear differential equations. The index matrices and their simplified forms of the multivariable Adomian polynomials are introduced. We obtain the recurrence relations for the simplified index matrices, which provide a convenient algorithm for rapid generation of the multivariable Adomian polynomials. Another alternative algorithm for term recurrence is established. In these algorithms recurrence processes do not require complicated operations such as parametrization, expanding and regrouping, derivatives, etc. as practiced in prior art. The MATHEMATICA program generating the Adomian polynomials based on the algorithm in this article is designed.     

Convergence Analysis of a Block-by-Block Method for Fractional Differential Equations

The block-by-block method, proposed by Linz for a kind of Volterra integral equations with nonsingular kernels, and extended by Kumar and Agrawal to a class of initial value problems of fractional differential equations (FDEs) with Caputo derivatives, is an efficient and stable scheme. We analytically prove and numerically verify that this method is convergent with order at least 3 for any fractional order index $\alpha>0$.     

Nano boundary layer equation with nonlinear Navier boundary condition

At the micro and nano scale the standard no slip boundary condition of classical fluid mechanics does not apply and must be replaced by a boundary condition that allows some degree of tangential slip. In this study the classical laminar boundary layer equations are studied using Lie symmetries with the no-slip boundary condition replaced by a nonlinear Navier boundary condition. This boundary condition contains an arbitrary index parameter, denoted by n>0, which appears in the coefficients of the ordinary differential equation to be solved. The case of a boundary layer formed in a convergent channel with a sink, which corresponds to n=1/2, is solved analytically. Another analytical but non-unique solution is found corresponding to the value n=1/3, while other values of n for n>1/2 correspond to the boundary layer formed in the flow past a wedge and are solved numerically. It is found that for fixed slip length the velocity components are reduced in magnitude as n increases, while for fixed n the velocity components are increased in magnitude as the slip length is increased.     

Nontrivial solutions for impulsive fractional differential systems through variational methods

Fractional differential equations (FDEs) as a generalization of ordinary differential equations and integration to arbitrary noninteger orders have gained importance due to their numerous applications in many fields of science and engineering. Indeed, there are a large number of phenomena, including fluid flow, diffusive transport akin to diffusion, rheology, probability, and electrical networks, that are modeled by different equations involving fractional order derivatives. This paper deals with multiplicity results of solutions for a class of impulsive fractional differential systems. The approach is based on variational methods and critical point theory. Indeed, we establish existence results for our system under some algebraic conditions on the nonlinear part with the classical Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz (AR) condition on the nonlinear and the impulsive terms. Moreover by combining two algebraic conditions on the nonlinear term, which guarantee the existence of two weak solutions, applying the mountain pass theorem, we establish the existence of third weak solution for our system.     

Finding exact solutions of nonlinear PDEs using the natural decomposition method

In this work, we implement the natural decomposition method (NDM) to solve nonlinear partial differential equations. We apply the NDM to obtain exact solutions for three applications of nonlinear partial differential equations. The new method is a combination of the natural transform method and the Adomian decomposition method. We prove some of the properties that are related to the natural transform method. The results are compared with existing solutions obtained by other methods, and one can conclude that the NDM is easy to use and efficient. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.