Abstract
In this research, we provide sufficient conditions to prove the existence of local and global solutions for the general two-dimensional nonlinear fractional integro-differential equations. Furthermore, we prove that these solutions are unique. In addition, we use operational matrices of two-variable shifted Jacobi polynomials via the collocation method to reduce the equations into a system of equations. Error bounds of the presented method are obtained. Five test problems are solved. The obtained numerical results show the accuracy, efficiency, and applicability of the proposed approach.
Keywords:
the mixed Riemann–Liouville integral; fixed-point theorems; shifted Jacobi polynomials; operational matrices; collocation method; error bound MSC:
26A33; 33C45; 65N35
1. Introduction
In the last decades, many problems, such as acoustic wave problems [1], groundwater pollution and groundwater flow problems [2,3,4,5,6], among others [7,8,9,10], have been shown by using fractional calculus. In addition, many engineering and physical problems, such as problems from control, electrochemistry, rheology, coupling and particle mechanics, viscoelasticity, electromagnetism fluid structure, and porous media (see e.g., [11,12,13,14]), have been mathematically formulated by fractional integro-differential equations (FIDEs). Recently, numerical methods for solving FIDEs have attracted the attention of many researchers. Taheri et al. [15] solved stochastic FIDEs by using the shifted Legendre spectral collocation method. Rahimkhani et al. [16] proposed the Bernoulli pseudo-spectral method for solving nonlinear Volterra FIDEs. Wang et al. [17] developed an approximate scheme based on fractional-order Euler functions to solve weakly singular FIDEs. Babaei et al. [18] considered a sixth-kind Chebyshev collocation method to solve a nonlinear quadratic FIDEs of variable order.
In the presented research, we focus on the following general two-dimensional nonlinear fractional integro-differential Equations (2D-NFIDEs):
with the initial conditions of:
where ; ; and a, b, c, are constants, and
Here, functions (.), , , are known, and is unknown; is the left-sided mixed Riemann–Liouville integral of order of f denoted by [19]
and are constants.
While several numerical techniques have been proposed for solving many different problems (see, for instance, [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35] and references therein), there were few research studies that developed numerical methods for solving Equations (1) and (2). For example, Najafalizadeh and Ezzati [36] obtained approximate solutions of these equations by using operational matrices of two-dimensional block pulse functions (2D-BPFs) with the order of convergence , . Maleknejad et al. [37] applied operational matrices based on a hybrid of two-dimensional block-pulse functions and shifted Legendre polynomials (2D-HBPSLs) to solve the general 2D-NFIDEs. The order of convergence of this method was .
According to the best of our knowledge, the existence and uniqueness of solutions for Equations (1) and (2) have not been discussed so far. In this research, we provide sufficient conditions to prove that there exist local and global solutions for the general 2D-NFIDEs. Then, we prove that the solutions of these equations are unique. Additionally, we prepare an efficient numerical approach to approximate solutions of the general 2D-NFIDEs with high accuracy.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: in Section 2, some theorems for the existence and uniqueness of solutions of general 2D-NFIDEs are proved. In Section 3, an introduction of one- and two-variable shifted Jacobi polynomials (1D-SJPs and 2D-SJPs) is provided. Additionally, some operational matrices are introduced. In Section 4, by using the collocation method via these operational matrices, approximate solutions for Equations (1) and (2) are obtained. In Section 5, error bounds of approximations are obtained. In Section 6, five test problems are solved to show the accuracy of the proposed method. In Section 7, a conclusion is presented.
2. Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions
Now, by using Schauder’s fixed-point theorem [38], a local existence of solutions of general 2D-NIDEFs is proved in a Banach space.
Theorem 1.
Suppose that
- (C1)
- , , g, , f, , , , , ;
- (C2)
- , , , ;
- (C3)
- ;
- (C4)
- , , , ;
- (C5)
- , , , .
Then, there exists at least one solution for the 2D-NIDEF on .
Proof.
Suppose that . Let , , , , ,
on . Choose , . Consider such that , . Clearly, is bounded, closed, and convex. Now, for any , define the operator
It is clear that
Therefore, we obtain
which implies that . Furthermore, for any , such that and , we obtain
Additionally, we have
Therefore,
Moreover, we can obtain
Similarly,
It is clear that the right-hand side of (10) tends to zero as . Thus, is equicontinuous. Therefore, by using the Arzela–Ascoli theorem [39], the compactness of the closure of can be concluded.
Now, we need to show that is continuous. For this propose, define
where , , and
Since are uniformly continuous, we can write
Suppose that the assumptions – hold; therefore,
Furthermore, we can easily obtain the following inequalities:
Thus, we have
and the proof is completed. □
In the following theorem, by using Tychonoff’s fixed-point theorem [38], the global existence of solutions of the general 2D-NFIDEs will be discussed.
Theorem 2.
Suppose that
- (D1)
- , , ;
- (D2)
- For each , , are monotonically non-decreasing in u;
- (D3)
- , , ;
- (D4)
- .
Then, for every , the generalized two-dimensional nonlinear fractional integro-differential equation
has a solution with initial conditions
and
Proof.
Let be a real space of all continuous functions from into . The topology on is that induced by the family of pseudo-norms , where for . Consider as a set of neighborhoods with . Under this topology, is complete, locally convex, and a linear space.
Let
where is a solution of Equations (11) and (12). Obviously, in the topology of , is closed, convex, and bounded.
Note that a fixed point of Equations (11) and (12) corresponds to a solution of Equations (1) and (2). Since, in the topology of , is compact and is bounded, therefore, the closure of is compact.
Considering assumptions – yields
Similarly,
In the following theorem, we prove that the general 2D-NFIDE has a unique solution.
Theorem 3.
Consider (), . Assume that there exist such that:
If
then the general 2D-NIDEF has a unique solution.
3. The 1D-SJPs and 2D-SJPs and Their Operational Matrices
3.1. The 1D-SJPs
The 1D-SJPs are defined on the interval by
These polynomials are orthogonal on the interval ; therefore,
where is a weight function, is Kronecker delta, and
Additionally, these polynomials have the following property:
The vector of 1D-SJPs is as follows:
3.2. 2D-SJPs and Function Approximation
The 2D-SJPs are defined on the domain by
These polynomials are orthogonal on ; therefore,
where is a weight function.
By using 2D-SJPs, we can approximate a continuous function on the domain as follows:
where
with entries
and
are vectors.
Additionally, we can expand a function on the domain with respect to 2D-SJPs as follows:
Here, K is a matrix with entries
where
and .
3.3. Operational Matrices of Two-Dimensional Integration
In [40], the authors computed the one-dimensional integration of for . Similarly, we compute the one-dimensional integration of this vector for , as follows:
where is a one-dimensional operational matrix of integration, defined in the following form:
with the following entries:
Since , the two-dimensional integration of can be obtained as follows:
where ⊗ denotes the Kronecker product; is the operational matrix of the two-dimensional integration; and are one-dimensional operational matrices of integration, defined in Equation (23).
Additionally, it is easy to conclude the following result:
where
with the entries:
for .
3.4. Operational Matrices of Fractional-Order Integration
In [27], the authors defined an operational matrix of the Riemann–Liouville integral operator of order by
with the entries
for .
Theorem 4
(see [34]). Let and be the vector of 2D-SJPs. Then
Here, and are operational matrices of a fractional Riemann–Liouville integration of orders and , respectively.
Theorem 5
Theorem 6
3.5. Operational Matrix of Product
Assume that , defined in (21), is the vector of 2D-SJPs. In [34], Rashidinia et al. introduced the operational matrix of the product as follows:
for . Here, is the operational matrix of the product with the entries
where
for .
4. Method of Solution
Here, by using the method proposed in Section 3, we solve the general 2D-NFIDEs. First of all, we define
Now, from the Appendix in [36], we can obtain:
Using (26) for yields
Similarly, we obtain
Now, by substituting (31)–(34), (36)–(44), and (46)–(49) into (1), a system of equations can be obtained as follows:
In the above system, the coefficients , are unknown. Using the roots of and for an appropriate N determines these unknown coefficients. By collocating Equation (50) at points , we obtain equations and solve this system using the Newton method. Therefore, we obtain the unknown coefficients and determine an approximate solution from (20).
5. Error Bounds
Let and be a weighted space of square integrable functions on . We recall the following inner product and norm on to discuss the convergence of the new method:
Theorem 7.
Consider the following finite-dimensional polynomial space:
Suppose that
If is the best approximation from to and is the Taylor expansion of of order N with respect to each variables x and y, then
where
and is a beta function.
Proof.
Since is the best approximation to , it is obvious that from the definition of best approximation, we have
The Taylor expansion of about yields
where and . Since , we can write
Taking the square roots of the above inequality gives the inequality (51). □
Definition 1.
A Jacobi-weighted Sobolev space of measurable functions is denoted by and is defined with the following norm and semi-norm:
where
Theorem 8.
For any , , and , we have
where η is a positive constant.
Proof.
Similarly,
where
Therefore, we obtain
□
Theorem 9.
For any , , and , we have
where is a positive constant.
Proof.
By taking the norm of the above equation, we obtain
where
Similarly,
where
□
Theorem 10.
For any , , and , we can conclude that
where is a positive constant.
Proof.
The proof of this theorem is similar to the proof of Theorem 9. □
Theorem 11.
For any , , and , we have
where is a positive constant.
Proof.
The proof of this theorem is similar to the proof of Theorem 9. □
Remark 1.
Inequality (54) implies that if N tends to infinity, then .
6. Numerical Results
Here, we solve five examples tested by Maple 2018. The number of bases are denoted by . The absolute errors and maximum absolute errors are obtained by
respectively, where are roots of 2D-SJPs in for different values of and .
Moreover, using
we plot maximum absolute errors where are roots of 1D-SJPs in for .
Example 1.
Consider the following 2D-NFIDE studied by [36]:
with the initial conditions
where and
The exact solution is .
Table 1 and Table 2 report the obtained numerical results and absolute errors, respectively, using the new approach and choosing and . Additionally, Table 3 reports maximum absolute errors by selecting various values of τ, ς and . These tables show that by choosing numbers of 2D-SJPs, our obtained results are more accurate than the results reported in [36,37] and use and numbers of 2D-HBPSLs and 2D-BPFs, respectively, for solving this problem. From Figure 1, the accuracy and efficiency of proposed method is illustrated.
Table 1.
Numerical results with for Example 1.
Table 2.
Absolute errors with for Example 1.
Table 3.
Maximum absolute errors with for Example 1.
Figure 1.
Plots of the exact and approximate solutions (left), maximum absolute error (middle) at , and absolute error (right) obtained by the 2D-SJPs with and for Example 1.
Example 2.
Consider the following 2D-NFIDE studied by [36]:
with initial conditions
where and
The exact solution is .
Table 4 and Table 5 report the obtained numerical results and absolute errors, respectively, using the new approach and choosing and . Additionally, Table 6 reports maximum absolute errors by selecting various values of τ, ς and . These tables show that by choosing numbers of 2D-SJPs, our obtained results are more accurate than the results reported in [36,37] and use and numbers of 2D-HBPSLs and 2D-BPFs, respectively, for solving this problem. In Figure 2, the accuracy and efficiency of proposed method is illustrated.
Table 4.
Numerical results with for Example 2.
Table 5.
Absolute errors with for Example 2.
Table 6.
Maximum absolute errors with for Example 2.
Figure 2.
Plots of the exact and approximate solutions (left), maximum absolute error (middle) at , and absolute error (right) obtained by the 2D-SJPs with and for Example 2.
Example 3.
Consider the following 2D-NFIDE:
with initial conditions
where
The exact solution is . Note that .
Table 7 and Table 8 report the obtained numerical results and absolute errors, respectively, using the new approach and choosing and . These tables show that by choosing numbers of 2D-SJPs, our obtained results are more accurate than the results reported in [37] and use numbers of 2D-HBPSLs for solving this problem. From Figure 3, the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated.
Table 7.
Numerical results with for Example 3.
Table 8.
Absolute errors with for Example 3.
Figure 3.
Plots of the exact and approximate solutions (left), maximum absolute error (middle) at , and absolute error (right) obtained by the 2D-SJPs with and for Example 3.
Example 4.
Consider the following 2D-NFIDE:
with initial conditions
where and
The exact solution is .
Table 9 and Table 10 report the obtained numerical results and absolute errors, respectively, using the new approach and choosing and . Additionally, Table 11 reports maximum absolute errors by selecting various values of τ, ς and . These tables show that by choosing numbers of 2D-SJPs, our obtained results are more accurate than the results obtained by the 2D-HBPSL method [37] and use bases for solving this problem. In Figure 4, the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated.
Table 9.
Numerical results with for Example 4.
Table 10.
Absolute errors with for Example 4.
Table 11.
Maximum absolute errors with for Example 4.
Figure 4.
Plots of the exact and approximate solutions (left), maximum absolute error (middle) at , and absolute error (right) obtained by the 2D-SJPs with and for Example 4.
Example 5.
Consider the following 2D-NFIDE:
with initial conditions
where and
The exact solution is .
Table 12 and Table 13 report the obtained numerical results and absolute errors, respectively, using the new approach and choosing and . Additionally, Table 14 reports maximum absolute errors by selecting various values of τ, ς and . These tables show that by choosing numbers of 2D-SJPs, our obtained results are more accurate than the results obtained by the 2D-HBPSL method [37] and use bases for solving this problem. In Figure 5, the accuracy and efficiency of proposed method is illustrated.
Table 12.
Numerical results with for Example 5.
Table 13.
Absolute errors with for Example 5.
Table 14.
Maximum absolute errors with for Example 5.
Figure 5.
Plots of the exact and approximate solutions (left), maximum absolute error (middle) at , and absolute error (right) obtained by the 2D-SJPs with and for Example 5.
7. Conclusions
In this research, sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of local and global solutions of general 2D-NFIDEs were provided. Additionally, the collocation method and operational matrices based on 2D-SJPs were used for solving these equations. Moreover, error bounds of the proposed method were obtained. We showed that the order of convergence of the method is in the Jacobi-weighted Sobolev space. Finally, we evaluated the presented method by solving five test problems. The obtained numerical results showed that a favorable approximate solution can be obtained by using lower numbers of basis functions.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, T.E.; methodology, T.E.; software, T.E.; validation, T.E. and J.R.; investigation, T.E.; resources, T.E.; writing—original draft preparation, T.E.; writing—review and editing, T.E. and J.R.; supervision, J.R. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Acknowledgments
The authors express their sincere thanks to anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions that improved the quality of this paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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