Abstract
Recently, a new fractional derivative operator has been introduced so that it presents the combination of the Riemann–Liouville integral and Caputo derivative. This paper aims to enhance the reproducing kernel Hilbert space method (RKHSM, for short) for solving certain fractional differential equations involving this new derivative. This is the first time that the application of the RKHSM is employed for solving some differential equations with the new operator. We illustrate the convergence analysis of the applicability and reliability of the suggested approaches. The results confirm that the RKHSM finds the true solution. Additionally, these numerical results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords:
fractional differential equations; proportional-Caputo hybrid operator; constant proportional-Caputo operator; reproducing kernel Hilbert space method MSC:
46E22; 34A08
1. Introduction
The subject of the derivative concept has become considerably important and popular due to its many applications in the broad disciplines of chemistry, biology, engineering, applied physics, and many others. Fractional calculus has an important role in modeling various fascinating complex phenomena in the form of ordinary or partial differential equations: to mention a few, time-fractional Schrödinger equations [1,2], the time-fractional Benjamin–Bona-Mahony equation [2], time-fractional Burgers equation [3], time-fractional Korteweg–de Vries equation [4], and time-fractional Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation [5]. The symmetric and anti-symmetric solutions of the fractional Schrödinger equation have been studied in [6]. In [7], the authors extended the Lie symmetry analysis to the time fractional generalized KdV equations. However, using the classical concept of derivative does not fill the gap that exists in different fields. This latter need modernized the classical concept of the derivative to the rich concept of fractional derivative [8,9]. For the most part, the non-local behaviors of many processes can be formulated as fractional differential equations (FDEs, for short) [10]. Here, the exact solutions of the FDEs are too complicated to be found. From this point, some well-known numerical techniques have been needed to find an approximate approach to these equations [11,12,13].
Many researchers worked on developing the fractional calculus concept and investigating new ways to define fractional derivatives which range from Riemann–Liouville to new hybrid proportional-Caputo fractional derivatives. The hybrid proportional-Caputo is the novel suggested fractional operator [14]. In their paper, they used an elementary FDE to discover that their new operator is deeply connected with the bivariate Mittag–Leffler function, which arises naturally from the modeling of certain systems of the real world. In addition, their new hybrid fractional operator may be useful as a tool to study the anomalous behavior of dynamical systems in diverse real data, such as chaotic systems, visco-elasticity, electro-chemistry, and physics.
In this research, motivated by the work of Baleanu et al. [14], we apply the RKHSM to fractional differential equations with respect to the new hybrid fractional operator.
The RKHSM is a widely used numerical method for solving non-linear systems. This method was proposed in 1908 [15] and is an effective numerical method for complex non-linear problems without discretization. Many researchers applied it to solve several types of equations [16,17,18,19,20,21]. Its principal advantages are the feature that it is easy to be applied, especially because it is meshfree, and its capability to deal with diverse complex differential equations. The highlights of the manuscript can be summarized as follows: (i) an efficient numerical technique is employed for solving some differential equations with the new operator; (ii) the effect of the new fractional derivative is shown in the obtained outcomes; (iii) the superior performance of the used method is confirmed via comparing the numerical solutions with the true ones.
2. Mathematical Concepts
2.1. The New Fractional Derivative Operator
Definition 1.
The Caputo derivative of order of is described by [9]
where is the Riemann–Liouville integral which is given by the definition below.
Definition 2.
Let ℏ be an integrable function. The Riemann–Liouville integral of order of ℏ is given by [9]
The more essential properties related to the above operators can be obtained from [22].
Definition 3.
Let and The proportional derivative operator of order γ of a differentiable function ℏ is given by [23]
where the functions and satisfy the following conditions:
Remark 1.
Remark 2.
The proportional (conformable) derivative goes back to Khalil et al. [24]. In [25], some properties of the conformable derivative were investigated. In the same year, a modified proportional derivative was explored in [26] with more properties. Definition 3 represents a precise definition of the proportional derivative. For more details related to the proportional operator see, for instance, [27].
It is interesting to note that the proportional derivative operator (3) of order can be expressed as a special case where and depend only on they are constant functions with respect to So as a consequence, this particular case can be defined as follows.
Definition 4.
Let and The constant proportional (CP, for short) derivative operator of order γ of a differentiable function ℏ is given by [14]
where the functions and satisfy the following conditions:
Recently, Baleanu et al. [14] introduced the concept of a new hybrid fractional operator which can be defined in two possible ways. One is to combine both proportional and Caputo definitions. The other is to combine both constant proportional and Caputo definitions. The concept of these operators is formalized as follows.
Definition 5.
Let the function ℏ be differentiable and let ℏ with its derivative be locally functions on [14].
- 1.
- The proportional-Caputo (PC, for short) hybrid operator of order for ℏ is given by
- 2.
- The constant proportional-Caputo (CPC, for short) hybrid operator of order for ℏ is given by
Proposition 1.
The hybrid CPC and PC fractional operators are non-local and singular [14].
Theorem 1.
The Laplace transform of the hybrid CPC operator is represented by [14]
where the function is differentiable. ℏ, with its derivative , are locally functions on , and exists.
Among the main properties of the PC and CPC fractional operators, we mention the following ones, namely, the inversion relations:
where and denote the inverse of the operators and respectively. They were constructed in [14] as follows.
Proposition 2.
The inverse operators to the CPC and PC fractional derivatives are defined, respectively, as [14]
These satisfy the inversion relations which are mentioned just above. The denotes the Riemann–Liouville derivative which is defined as follows:
For more details on CPC and PC hybrid fractional operators see [14].
Remark 3.
Of special interest, Baleanu et al. [14] realized that the specific case
will not be useful in applications because of the lack of dimensional agreement in (3) while this is important for physical consistency.
Remark 4.
We shall pay special attention in this paper to two specific cases when
- 1.
- For any we take
- 2.
- For any we take
2.2. The Reproducing Kernel Theory
The following are some fundamental definitions and theorems required from the reproducing kernel theory.
Definition 6.
We say that a function is a reproducing kernel of the space H provided [28]:
- 1.
- 2.
- , and
where H is a Hilbert space over S and
Remark 5.
Note that the assertion (2) is called the reproducing property (RP).
Remark 6.
An RKHS “H” is a Hilbert space endowed with an RK “K”.
Definition 7
([28]). The function space consists of all functions for which and are absolutely continuous functions on and
Definition 8
([28]). If then the inner product and norm are
and
Theorem 2.
We obtain the RK function of as:
Proof.
We must prove
We have
Applying integration by parts, we obtain:
Since we have
Then
We need to compute and :
By using the above equations, we obtain:
We have
Thus
and, since we deduce
□
Definition 9
([28]). The function space consists of all functions for which is absolutely continuous function on and
Definition 10
([28]). If then the inner product and norm are
and
Theorem 3.
We obtain the RK function of as:
Proof.
We must prove
We have
We need to compute
By using the above equation, we obtain:
We have
Thus
so, we deduce
□
3. The RKHS Approach
Considering the following fractional initial value problem:
where is given in (10).
One skillful way to investigate the considered problem by using RKHSM is to homogenize the initial condition To do so, the transformation has the form:
Then, (22) becomes
where
The first step is to define a linear operator defined by
Theorem 4.
The operator is bounded and linear.
Proof.
For checking the linearity, let Then,
Additionally, let and Then
We can now prove that is bounded. This shows that
From Definition 10, we have
By virtue of the RP, we have
In addition,
Using the Schwarz inequality and the continuity of to obtain
In the same way,
Hence
From (26), we conclude that where □
Prior to constructing the numerical solution of (27), we should first construct the orthogonal function system of For this, let us introduce the useful functions:
where
- represents the RKF associated with
- is the formal adjoint of
- is a dense countable set in
The Gram–Schmidt process gives the following orthonormal system :
Here, denotes a functioning system in where its expression can be determined by the following way:
where
Remark 7.
Not that the formula for is given by
The operator means that is applied to η variables.
Theorem 5.
Assume is dense on then is the complete system of the space
Proof.
We see easily that Therefore, for each fixed
Since
Due to the density of in one can get
Additionally, the existence of implies.
□
Lemma 1.
Assume then
ϝ is non-negative and
Proof.
we have
and
As a result,
Here □
Theorem 6.
Proof.
On account of the completeness of in the space we compute
with (32) following very easily from the considered change of variables □
Remark 8.
The n-term approximate solution of (31) is given as
Remark 9.
As is a Hilbert space, we deduce
This means that the approximate solution is convergent in the norm.
Theorem 7.
Lets be an approximate solution in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space . Then,
- 1.
- converges uniformly to
- 2.
- converges uniformly to
Proof.
where is a constant.
For the first result, we need to estimate the term on the left below:
In the same way, we get
due to the uniform boundedness of we have
where is a positive constant.
Hence
□
4. Numerical Experiments
In the following, some applications of differential equations based on the new hybrid CPC derivative are tested to confirm the theoretical part.
Example 1.
Considering the following simple problem:
The exact solution to the above problem takes the following form [14]
- 1.
- First situation (FS, for short):
- 2.
- Second situation (SS, for short):
This RKHSM is tested with the grid points The exact solution (ES), approximate solution (AS), absolute error (AE), and relative error RE) of (33) are shown in Table 1, Table 2, Table 3 and Table 4 when and for both FS and SS. Additionally, the comparison between the ES and RKHSM’s solution for are depicted together in Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3 for FS and in Figure 4, Figure 5 and Figure 6 for SS. From the results, we can see that the numerical solutions are found to be in excellent agreement with the exact solutions.
Table 1.
First and second situations: results for Example 1 when
Table 2.
First and second situations: results for Example 1 when
Table 3.
First and second situations: results for Example 1 when
Table 4.
First and second situations: results for Example 1 when
Figure 1.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the FS of Example 1.
Figure 2.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the FS of Example 1.
Figure 3.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the FS of Example 1.
Figure 4.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the SS of Example 1.
Figure 5.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the SS of Example 1.
Figure 6.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the SS of Example 1.
Example 2.
Considering the following simple problem:
The exact solution to the above problem takes the following form
- 1.
- First situation (FS, for short):
- 2.
- Second situation (SS, for short):
This RKHSM is tested with the grid points The ES, AS, AE, and RE of (35) are shown in Table 5, Table 6, Table 7 and Table 8 when and for both the FS and SS. Additionally, the comparisons between the ES and RKHSM’s solution for both cases are depicted in Figure 7 for the FS and Figure 8 for the SS, when . From the results, we can see that the numerical solutions are found to be in excellent agreement with the exact solutions.
Table 5.
First and second situations: results for Example 2 when
Table 6.
First and second situations: results for Example 2 when
Table 7.
First and second situations: results for Example 2 when
Table 8.
First and second situations: results for Example 2 when
Figure 7.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the FS of Example 2.
Figure 8.
Comparison of numerical solutions of the RKHSM by the ES for the SS of Example 2.
5. Conclusions
In this paper, an efficient method has been applied successfully for solving FDEs. The approximate solution and its derivative both converge uniformly. The accuracy and applicability of the proposed method are validated by computing the numerical solutions at many grid points. The boundedness of the linear operator is demonstrated. The results show that the proposed method is a powerful tool to approximate many other non-linear problems which are described by the new hybrid fractional derivative operator. This research opens the way for the use of the RKHSM to study the mentioned problem for various new fractional derivatives. As part of our purpose, we plan to apply the RKHSM to multidimensional fractional partial differential equations that are described with CPC derivative, which will be new in the literature.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, D.S.; methodology, N.A.; software, A.A.; validation, A.A. and D.S.; formal analysis, N.A.; investigation, A.A.; resources, M.D.l.S.; data curation, A.A.; writing—original draft preparation, N.A.; writing—review and editing, N.A.; visualization, A.A.; supervision, M.B.; project administration, A.A., M.D.l.S., M.B., D.S. and A.N.; funding acquisition, M.D.l.S. and M.B. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
Data are included within this research.
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the Basque Government for its support through Grant IT1555-22 and to MCIN/AEI 269.10.13039/501100011033 for Grant PID2021-1235430B-C21/C22.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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