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In this paper, a new analytical technique is proposed for solving fractional partial differential equations. This method is referred to as the general conformal multiple Laplace transform decomposition method. It is a combination of the multiple Laplace transform method and the Adomian decomposition method. The main theoretical results of using this method are presented. In addition, illustrative examples are provided to demonstrate the validity and symmetry of the presented method.
Having attracted much attention over the last few decades due to its extensive application in almost all disciplines of applied science and engineering, fractional calculus is widely used in fractional partial differential equations (PDEs) to model problems in the real world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. Most fractional derivative definitions are the Riemann–Liouville, Caputo, and Grunwald–Letnikov definitions. However, the above fractional derivatives lack some basic properties such as the chain rule and Leibniz rule for derivatives [1].
Ref. [2] discusses some non-standard definitions of Caputo fractional derivatives and their applications as well as addressing some “fractional” analogues of the Leibniz rule.
In 2014, Khalil et al. [1,3] proposed a new definition: conformable derivative, which has the Leibniz rule and the chain rule as classic derivatives.
For the function , the conformable derivative of order of f at is expressed as
This new fractional derivative has both physical and geometrical interpretations [8], satisfying the following basic properties and theorems as referred to in [1,3]:
(1)
(2)
, for all constant functions
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
This definition has been applied in various fields. By introducing conformable derivative formulae to fractional differential equations, they can be transformed into simpler formulations more easily than other commonly used fractional derivative formulae due to the difficulty in finding analytical or approximation solutions through those fractional derivatives. In recent years, fractional differential equations have been attracting increased attention.
In 2019, Jarad et al. [19] modified the conformable Laplace transform. The conformable double Laplace transform was proposed in [19]. The conformable Laplace transform was applied in [20] to solve the systems with nonlocal conformable fractional derivatives. Mohammed K. A. Kaabar et al. proposed the new approximate analytical solutions intended for the nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation with second-order spatio-temporal dispersion by using the double Laplace transform method [6]. Shailesh A. Bhanotar et al. [4] proposed the conformal triple Laplace transform decomposition method to study nonlinear partial differential equations. Shailesh A. Bhanotar and Mohammed K. A. Kaabar [4] proposed the analytical solutions to the nonlinear partial differential equations by using the conformable triple Laplace transform decomposition method. Abdon Atangana et al. [7] carried out a study on the multi-Laplace transform method for solving nonlinear partial differential equations with mixed derivatives. In [5,8,11,13,21], there are many different analogue methods suited to the study of fractional differential with a conformable derivative.
The Laplace decomposition method (LDM) [12] is an analytical method that can be used to solve differential equations [4]. LDM shows advantages over other methods. For example, it requires neither discretization nor linearization, which leads to more efficient results. LDM has now been applied to solve all sorts of nonlinear differential equations. H. Jafari et al. [19] adopted the Laplace decomposition method to solve the linear and nonlinear fractional diffusion–wave equations. Mohamed Z. Mohamed et al. [16] put forward the Laplace Adomian decomposition method as a solution to time-partial fractional differential equations and drew comparison with the new modified variational iteration Laplace transform method. Refs. [22,23,24] employed the Adomian decomposition method to various fractional and nonlinear transport models.
In this paper, the methods in [4,5,6,7,15] are generalized to solve fractional differential equations by using a conformable multi-Laplace transform decomposition method. With the general conformable multiple Laplace transform decomposition method (GCMLDM) scheme proposed, a discussion is conducted about how to solve fractional differential equations through the GCMLDM. The advantage of the multiple Laplace method is that it avoids the conjunction of classical differential equation theory with Laplace transform theory [6,9,10]. The general conformable multiple Laplace transform decomposition method (GCMLDM) has not been used before and no data are available for the solution to more than three dimensional conformable fractional partial differential equations. Numerical examples show that our technique has close agreement with those solved by the Adomian decomposition method [19].
The rest of the manuscript is structured as follows. Section 2 elaborates on the definitions of the general conformable higher order fractional derivative and multiple Laplace transform. In Section 3, the Laplace decomposition method is briefly described. In Section 4, the general conformable multiple Laplace transform decomposition method (GCMLDM) intended to solve fractional differential equations is presented. Two examples are provided using the proposed method to validate the obtained results in Section 5. Finally, the conclusion is presented in Section 6.
2. Basic Definitions and Theorems
Based on the ideas in [4,5,6,7], this section presents some modified and generalized definitions and theorems of conformable fractional derivatives related to the general conformable multiple Laplace transform method.
Definition 1.
Let u be a real-valued function with real variables and be a point with each component being positive. Then, the following general conformable partial fractional derivative (GCPFD) of higher orders , and can be obtained
where and denote the derivatives of u of order and , respectively (the same notation is used throughout the text), with and being the smallest integer greater than or equal to and , respectively. If the above two limits exist, the general conformable higher order partial derivative of u of the order and , with respect to and t at point , is denoted as and , respectively.
Exceptionally, if, we obtain
For, Definition 1 is the generalized case of Definition 4.1 in [4].
For (4), it is equivalent to the definition given out by Khalil et al [1].
Definition 2.
Let u be a real-valued function with n real variables, and be a point with each component being positive. Then, the following general conformable fractional integral of higher orders with respect to integral variable can be obtained
If we generalize Lemma 2.4 in [3], Lemma 1 can be obtained as follows.
Lemma 1.
Assume that is continuous with respect to variable , and , then we have
Proof.
This proof can be done easily by substituting into Definitions 1 and 2 and referring to Lemma 2.4 in [3]. □
In the following Theorem 1, we will present the theorem related to the relation between the GCPFD and fractional partial derivatives as follows:
Theorem 1.
Let , and be differentiable at a for , then we have
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Proof.
(i) By adopting the definition of the GCPFD and taking ,
(ii) The proof of (ii) is conducted in a similar way to (i) and we take .
(iii) The proof of (iii) is conducted in a similar way to (i). In the following Proposition 1, we present the conformable partial fractional derivative of some special functions. It can be proved easily by Theorem 1 and [10]. □
Proposition 1.
Let , , and , , then the definition of (1) of the GCPFD shares a set of properties as follows:
(1)
(2)
(3)
, for all constant functions
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
Proof.
(1)–(3) can be proved easily by using Definition 1, (4)–(5) can be proved by substituting into (1), and (6)–(8) can be proved easily through definition (2). □
3. Some Results and Theorems of the General Conformable Multiple Laplace Transform
In this section, we recall some basic definitions of conformable Laplace transform and some results [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14] that can be used in this paper. Furthermore, the definition of general conformable multiple Laplace transform is presented, namely, Definition 5.
Definition 3
([14]). The single conformable Laplace transform of function with respect to x of order is expressed as
Definition 4
([4]). Let be a real valued piecewise continuous function with three variables , and t as defined on the domain D of exponential order , and γ, respectively. Then, the conformable triple Laplace transform (CTLT) of is expressed as
where , are Laplace variables.
In view of Definition 4, the general conformable multiple Laplace transform (CMLT) is defined as follows:
Definition 5.
Let be a real valued piecewise continuous function of independent real variables as defined on the domain of of exponential order and . Then, the general conformable multiple Laplace transform (CMLT) (fold) of is obtained as
where are the Laplace variables, while and are the smallest integer no less than and γ, respectively.
When the function satisfies the adequate conditions [25], we can change the order of transformation, so
Exceptionally, if , and , (7) can be reduced to (6) in Shailesh A. Bhanotar et al., [14] is as follows:
Definition 6.
Conformable inverse triple Laplace transform [14] is defined as
Definition 7.
Let . If , then the general conformable inverse multiple Laplace transform is defined as
Theorem 2.
Let
. If
and , σ, A, B, and C are real constants, then
(a)
Linear property,
(b)
(c)
(d)
Shifting property,
(e)
, then,
(f)
(g)
where
Proof.
Property (a)–(c) can be easily proved by using the definition of general conformable multiple Laplace transform. Herein, we see the proof of property (d)–(f).
(d).
By using the general conformable multiple Laplace transform Definition 5, we have
Now, by subrogating above formula into , it yields
Therefore, we carry out this process for n times to obtain the desired results.
(e) By using the general conformable multiple Laplace transform Definition 5, it yields
By differentiating with respect to -times, it yields
Then, by differentiating again with respect to -times, it yields
By applying Definition 5 and Theorem 2 , it can be proved easily. □
Theorem 4.
Let be a real valued piecewise continuous function of independent real variables as defined on the domain of of exponential order and . Then, the general conformable multiple Laplace transform (CMLT) of conformable partial fractional derivatives of order and is obtained as
(a)
where , , denotes l times conformable fractional derivatives of function with order ,
and, notably, when , the results above coincide with those in Theorem 5 [4];
(b)
(c)
where denotes and times conformable fractional derivatives of function with order and respectively.
Proof.
(a) By using Theorem 5 in Ref. [4], one can prove its special case of . Thus, through mathematical induction, one can easily see the proof for arbitrarily and arbitrarily .
(b) One can easily see the proof by using Definition 5.
(c) The proof is derived from generalizing Theorem 2.3 in Ref. [11] directly and using the induction process on n. □
4. Solving Nonlinear Partial Fractional Differential Equation Using the General Conformable Multiple Laplace Transform Decomposition Method
We consider a general nonlinear nonhomogeneous partial fractional differential equation:
where is time variable subjected to the boundary or initial conditions:
where R and N are the linear differential operator and the nonlinear partial fractional operator, respectively, and is the source term. In order to solve Equation (11), the following steps are taken:
Step 1: By applying the conformable multiple Laplace transform to Equation (11) on both sides, we obtain
By applying Theorem 4 (a) and initial conditions (12) to Equation (13), it yields
Step 2: By dividing by , and applying the conformable inverse multiple Laplace transform to Equation (14), we have
where represents the term coming from the source term and initial or boundary conditions.
Step 3: Based on the conformable multiple Laplace transform decomposition method, the solution to Equation (11) is supposed to be an infinite series as follows:
and the nonlinear term can be decomposed into
where is Adomian polynomials of , and it is expressed as
By substituting Equations (17) and (18) into Equation (16), we obtain
Step 4: By comparing both sides of Equation (18), we have
where
Lastly, the approximate analytical solution of Equation (11) can be expressed as
5. Illustrative Examples
In this section, numerical experiments are conducted using the general conformable multiple Laplace decomposition method to solve both nonlinear homogeneous and nonhomogeneous partial fractional differential equations.
Example 1.
The solution to fractional diffusion equation in three dimensions [20] using conformable fractional derivative. In this section, the fractional diffusion equation is expressed as
where , and denotes the fractional Laplace operator in conformable sense.
We first adopt the conformable multiple Laplace transform on both sides of Equation (22), which leads to
By using Theorem 4(a) and the initial condition, Equation (22) can be reduced to
Now, by operating with the inverse of the conformable multiple fractional Laplace transform on both sides of (24) and using Proposition 1, it yields
By applying the proposed general conformable multiple Laplace transform decomposition method, and considering the initial and boundary conditions, the recursive relation is expressed as
Now, by calculating through Proposition 1, we have
Then, by substituting Equation (26) into the Equation (25), and using Theorem 4(a) and Theorem 2(c), we obtain
Similarly, we have
Similarly, we have
and so on.
Therefore, the approximate series solution is expressed as
Example 2.
Assume the nonlinear time-fractional advection partial differential equation [16,18]:
Now, by operating with the inverse of the conformable fractional double Laplace transform on both sides of (38) and using Theorem 2(g), it yields
By applying the proposed general conformable multiple Laplace transform decomposition method, and considering the initial conditions, the recursive relation is expressed as
where represents the Adomian polynomial, which satisfies the following equation:
Assume the nonlinear term can be expressed as
By substituting Equation (42) into Equation (41), Equation (40) can be rewritten as
for ,
Thus, by using Theorem 2(g), we obtain
We have
for ,
we have
By substituting Equation (45) into Equation (46) and using Theorem 2(g), it yields
for ,
By substituting , and into Equation (48) and simplifying it, we have
Therefore, we have
Thus, we obtain
and so on.
The third term approximate series solution for Example 2 is expressed as
According to Equation (52), if we consider , then the third term approximate series solution of Example 2 is expressed as
Table 1 shows the comparison of values when , and 1; , and ; and and 1 for Equation (52) using the proposed Laplace decomposition method and the Adomian decomposition method [18].
Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3 show the 3D graphical representations of Equation (52) with varying values of .
From Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3 and Table 1, it can be seen that the results are basically consistent with those in references [16,18]. Their error becomes increasingly smaller as the fractional order approaches 1. This is because the conformable fractional derivative is more like the integer derivative than other fractional derivatives [26]. It is worth noting that only three terms of the decomposition series were used to evaluate the approximate solutions for Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3 and Table 1. It can be seen clearly from Equation (52) that the efficiency of the proposed approach can be significantly enhanced by computing the further terms or further components of .
6. Conclusions
In this paper, the general conformable multiple Laplace transform was conducted by using our proposed new scheme. The conformable multiple Laplace transform decomposition method was adopted to solve linear and nonlinear homogeneous or nonhomogeneous partial fractional differential equations. Two numerical examples were provided by using our proposed method. Our results demonstrate the significance of finding novel methods to solve fractional partial differential equations with symmetric variables.
Funding
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11971416).
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