1. Introduction
Fractional calculus (FC) is a mathematical discipline that dates back 300 years, defined in the 19th century by Rieman and Liouville as “the generalization of the ordinary derivative to non-integer values”, and was later developed by Euler, Liouville, and Abel (1823). For more details, see [
1,
2,
3]. In the last decades, FC starts to attract much more attention from researchers. It was found that different, particularly interdisciplinary applications can be superbly modeled with the help of fractional derivatives. For instance, robotics, nonlinear oscillation of earthquakes, control theory, signal processing, and viscoelasticity [
4,
5,
6,
7]. For more details and applications of FC, we refer the reader to [
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14]. Since the ordinary differential is a local operator, but the fractional order differential operator is non-local, the non-local property is considered the most significant aspect of using fractional differential equations (FDEs), which indicates the following state of a phenomenon does not rely only upon its current state but considers its historical states as well. For this reason, FDEs have drawn great attention from researchers for their realism in the interpretation of real-world phenomena and it has become a more popular mathematical discipline: such as circuit systems [
15], electrochemistry of corrosion [
16], heat conduction [
17], optics and signal processing [
18], probability and statistics [
19], inviscid fluid [
20], fluid flow [
21], and so on. In the literature, eminent researchers have introduced and developed various ways to define the fractional derivatives (FD), such as Atangana–Baleanu, Riemann– Liouville, Abel, Weyl, Riesz, Caputo–Fabrizio, and Caputo operators. The Riemann–Liouville, and Caputo FDs are the most popular, they give a high degree of freedom in the description and simulation of the physical phenomena compared with ordinary derivatives. To learn about these FDs, (see [
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28]).
Various mathematical forming of science and engineering phenomena involve linear and non-linear differential equations, Integral equations, or Integro-differential equations (DEs, IEs, IDEs) that play a vital role to simulate a wide range of both linear and non-linear phenomena in varied science and engineering fields. However, when converting these phenomena to one of DEs, IEs, or IDEs some of them are complicated and cannot be treated with the help of ordinary calculus. In this regard, many scientists have concentrated on employing FDEs and fractional IDEs (FIDEs) as convenient tools in modeling the phenomenon and play an important role in exploring solutions utilizing varied methods, which is in line with the rapid growth in explaining the various phenomena originating from the natural sciences more accurately than ordinary DEs. But, there remain challenges to solving the non-linear models of such phenomena theoretically or numerically. Recently, many researchers have devoted more effective methods to provide a solution, approximate, analytical, numerical, or exact to such models. Exploring the analytic solution of FDEs and FIDEs is difficult hard in most cases. Even though, abundant efforts had been introduced recently to develop emerging numerical and approximate-analytical techniques for finding out the solutions to linear and nonlinear fractional problems. Among these methods, reproducing kernel Hilbert space method [
29], the Haar wavelet method [
30], the Adomian decomposition method [
31], the homotopy analysis method [
32], the finite difference method [
33], the Taylor series expansion method [
34], collocation method [
35], the power series method [
36,
37,
38], and the Aboodh transform decomposition method [
39]. One of the novel and efficient techniques for generating analytic-approximate of wide classes of FDEs and FIDEs is the Laplace fractional power series (LFPS) method. LFPS approach had been suggested as a modern algorithm which is a mixture of two strong approaches, fractional power series (FPS) and Laplace transform (LT). The LFPS algorithm is a considerable algorithm to be appropriate for handling several linear and non-linear fractional models and investigating their solutions: such as time-fractional Swift-Hohenberg equations [
40], time-fractional Black–Scholes option pricing equations [
41], time-fractional Kolmogorov and Rosenau–Hyman models [
42], temporal time-fractional gas dynamics equations [
43], time-fractional generalized biology population model [
44], and fractional reaction–diffusion for bacteria growth model [
45].
Motivated by the aforementioned works, this article extends the application of LPSM for solving non-linear FIDEs in the Volterra sense, as shown in the underlying form.
where
, is the parameter defining the Caputo-FD, the functions
,
are continuous real-valued functions, and
, is the non-linear function of
In the Volterra sense, the solution of FIDEs is crucial for describing the pattern of linear and non-linear physical phenomena, particularly, the phenomena excited in harmony or to evaluate the probabilistic response of randomly-excited analytical models, the dynamics of nuclear reactors, and so forth. A functional expansion of a dynamic, nonlinear, and time-invariant functional is referred to as Volterra Series.
The main contribution of this work is to design a modern modified algorithm to generate the analytic-approximate solutions of the non-linear fractional Volterra integro–differential equation (FVIDE) in the framework of employing Caputo-FD. This kind of FD is chosen in the present analysis due to its simplicity in handling both linear and non-linear FIDEs and its compatibility with initial conditions, that is; when solving FDEs or FIDEs, initial conditions are often involved. As well, the Caputo-FD handles initial conditions naturally and allows for a direct and consistent incorporation of these conditions into the formulation of the problem. Furthermore, it satisfies the causality property, which means that the value of FD at a particular time depends only on the values of the function up to that time. This property aligns well with the physical interpretation of FDs in many applications, where the current behavior of a system depends on its history. The principle of exploring approximate solutions is discussed. The remaining sections of this work are structured as follows: In section two, some elementary results of FC theory and LT features are presented. Next, a modified LFPS algorithm to examine and establish the approximate solution of the target model (1) is presented in section three. In section four, the simplicity, potential, and accuracy of the recommended scheme are provided by two non-linear FVIDEs with appropriate initial conditions. Toward the end, some concluding remarks are drawn in the last section.
3. Principle of the LFPS Algorithm
The LFPS scheme is analytic-numeric algorithm specifically extended to deal with arising FDEs, and FPDEs in diverse linear and non-linear dynamical phenomena. This algorithm depends on the investigation of the series solution of the target problem in a new space called Laplace space with the simulation of the generalized arbitrary order Taylor series to find out the unknown components of the suggested series solution. The proposed scheme has sensational merits and superb capability to handle non-linear terms profitably without no inserting any physical hypotheses of the studied models. In this segment, a modified algorithm of LFPS scheme is developed for determining accurate analytic-approximate solutions of the certain class of FIDEs. In this context, let us consider the non-linear FVIDE (1) subject to the initial condition It is needful to start with the following theorem that is required in the strategy of solving the target equation (1).
Theorem 3.
Suppose that for, and, then
Proof. Define
for
The product of the two series gives
Since
only if
, which happened at
. Then
But
, and
. So that
□
Now, to solve FVIDE (1), we should transform it into the Laplace space as follows:
Herein, let the order of Caputo-FD , where such that if .
The proposed solution of (7) has the FSE form:
provided that
. Thus, the
-th truncated FSE form
, could be expressed as:
Let
and
be analytic functions, then its LT can be written as
and
. Then, by substitution these expansions series with FSE (9) into Equation (7), we get
Using Theorem 3, Equation (10) becomes as follows:
Multiply Equation (11) by
for
, we have
By taking the limit of the obtained Equation (12) as
, such that
Then, for the first, second, and third sums respectively; let
, and
. We have
Thus, the proposed solution of (7) could be reformulated in the following FSE form:
Correspondingly, by performing the inverse LT operator on both sides of (15), one can reach the following analytic-approximate series solution of FVIDE (1) along with the given initial condition.
4. Illustrated Examples
In this section, the LFPS algorithm is implemented to investigate analytical-approximate solutions of non-linear FVIDEs using Caputo-FD. Some graphical and numerical simulations are illustrated to show the performance and accuracy of our recommended algorithm. In this portion, we utilize Mathematica package 12 to perform computations.
Example 1.
Consider the following non-linear FVIDE:
subject to initial condition . The exact solution of the system of non-linear FVIDE (17) at is , [46].
Following the process of the proposed algorithm in the last. Running LT into (17), we get
Utilizing the following series expansions:
and
where
By performing LT operator into both sides of (21), we get
By substitute , the -th truncated Laplace residual error function (L-REF) of the series form for the Laplace equation (18) can be given as:
Multiply both sides of Equation (24) by the factor , and take the limit as , we have
Then, by solving , we get the following recurrence formula:
For In case , we choose , then for . Then, the recurrence formula (26) gives the following first nonzero coefficients:
Thus, the analytic-approximate series solution of FVIDE (17) becomes as:
Particularly for , we have:
In a similar way, we calculate the solution for varying the fractional derivative .
The residual error of -th LFPS approximate solution of FVIDE (17) is defined as:
To confirm the accuracy of the recommended approach, we calculate the of the LFPS approximate solution at different numbers of iterations and varied values of fractional order derivative , and summarized in Table 1. One can observe from Table 1 that the numerical comparisons simulation reflects the accuracy of LFPS approach. Graphically, the behavior of attained analytic-approximate series solution of FVIDE (17) is displayed in a 2D plot as in Figure 1. It’s clear that from the graphical representation, the LFPS solutions in different cases of fractional order derivative , simulate the exact solution. Finally, we provided the residual error for Example 1 at different terms and times when fixed value of FD . Its clear that, from mentioned simulation in Table 2, the values of residual errors will further decrease via increasing terms. So, the accuracy, efficiency, and convergences of designed algorithm is confirmed.
Example 2.
Consider the following non-linear FVIDE:
Subject to the initial condition . The exact solution of (29) at , is . [
46]
As we do in Example 1, we should be firstly transformed (29) into the new Laplace space; that is:
and the L-REF of (30) can be identified as:
Write the LTs of (31) in the following FSE:
Using the FSEs (9, 32-34), the -th L-REF of (32) can be written as:
By solving , we have
for , and for In the case of , we can choose Setting for , then the non-zero terms for from 9 to 40 are So, the analytic-approximate solution is given by
In the same manner, we gain for , respectively.
Table 3 compares the residual errors for gained LFPS approximate solutions to FVIDE (29) at varied values of . From Table 3, obvious that the effect of FD parameter on the values of residual errors will further decrease over intrest domain of obtained solutions and this confirms the accuracy of our proposed method. Figure 2 displays the 2D plot of the exact and LFPS solutions for Example 2 when in the domain . This graphical representation indicates that the attained solutions via recommended algorithm converge to the exact solution when , tends to 1, and these solutions overlap at . Finally, we provided the residual error attained resuts forExample 2 at different terms and times when fixed of FD in Table 4 to demonstrate the convergence of the proposed method. From this table, one notice that the values of residual errors will further decrease via increasing terms of obtained solutions, and this proves the accuracy, efficiency, and convergency of LFPS scheme.