1. Introduction
The time-fractional Navier–Stokes equations are a big step forward in fluid dynamics, especially when it comes to modeling flow processes that are complicated and have memory effects and interactions that are not local. The were developed by adding fractional derivatives in time to the normal Navier–Stokes equations (NSE).
Researchers first developed the (NSE) in [
1]. They are partial differential equations that explain how fluids that stay together move. It is very important to know that the Navier–Stokes equation is a basic tool for describing many physical phenomena in the field of fluid dynamics. These include fluid flow through pipes and atmospheric currents [
2,
3]. The Navier-Stokes equation (NSE) is a very useful tool for finding how viscous fluids and solid objects interact. It is the best tool in the fields of thermohydraulics, meteorology, petroleum engineering, plasma physics, and technology, as noted in [
4]. Different researchers have employed various methodologies to obtain the solution to the NSE. For instance, the authors in [
5] addressed the time-fractional Navier–Stokes equations utilizing an innovative analytical and approximate approach. In [
6], the researchers solved the time-fractional NSE system using the hybrid method called the Laplace–Adomian decomposition method.
The Adomian decomposition transform method and the q-homotopy analysis transform method were used in [
7] to get numerical results for the multi-dimensional NSE. The homotopy perturbation method, a new recursive transform method that uses natural transformation, was used to find the solution to the multi-dimensional NSE in [
8]. In [
9], the authors examine the solution of the multi-dimensional fractional NSE employing the Sumudu transform in conjunction with the Caputo fractional derivative.
The authors in [
10] utilize the variational iteration transform method to deal with solutions of the fractional-order NSE. The generalized Laplace transform was first examined in [
11], and further characteristics of this transformation were acquired in [
12]; a Laplace-type integral transform associated with Adomian’s was utilized to derive the solution of nonlinear evolution equations featuring non-integer derivatives in [
13]. In [
14], the authors examined the solution of the fractional-order Kaup–Kupershmidt (KK) equation by employing the natural decomposition method, utilizing two distinct fractional derivatives: the Atangana–Baleanu derivative in Caputo form (ABC) and the Caputo–Fabrizio (CF) derivative.
The double generalized Laplace transform with the decomposition method was applied to gain the solution of nonlinear sine-Gordon and coupled sine-Gordon equations [
15]; later the same technique was extended to solve a time-fractional partial differential equation [
16]. In [
17], the authors introduced the natural generalized Laplace transform decomposition method (NGLTDM) for obtaining analytical solutions to time-fractional linear and nonlinear dispersive dKdV-type equations. The author in [
18] employed the natural generalized Laplace transform decomposition method (NGLTDM) to obtain the solution of the singular one-dimensional Boussinesq equation. Based on the aforementioned research, this article utilizes the new natural generalized Laplace transform (NGLT) and the double natural generalized Laplace transform (DNGLT) together with the decomposition method to investigate the solution of the time-fractional Navier–Stokes equation.
Observation: The abbreviations used in this study are as follows:
- (1)
(GLT) as a replacement for ”Generalized Laplace Transform”.
- (2)
(NT) as a replacement for ” Natural transform”.
- (3)
(NGLT) as a replacement for ” natural generalized Laplace transform”.
- (4)
(INGLT) as a replacement for ” inverse natural generalized Laplace transform”.
- (5)
(NGLTDM) as a replacement for ” natural generalized Laplace transform decomposition method”.
- (6)
(DNGLTDM) as a replacement for ” double natural generalized Laplace transform decomposition method”.
2. Important Ideas
This unit covers the most important definitions and properties of fractional calculus, as well as the single and DNGLT theory, which will be used throughout the article:
Definition 1 ([
11])
. Let be integrable, for . The generalized integral transform of the function is denoted byfor, and . Definition 2. The Caputo time-fractional derivative operator of order is determined byFor additional details, refer to [19]. The NGLT is defined as follows.
Definition 3 ([
18])
. Let and be functions of the definition of the (NGLT) of the functions and ; are granted byand the DNGLT is defined bywhere and indicate (NGLT) and (DNGLT) respectively and the symbols and s denote transforms of the variable and σ respectively. Therefore, the inverse (NGLT) and (DNGLT) can be written, respectively, as
and
where the symbols
and
represent the inverse (NGLT) and (DNGLT) respectively.
Based on the definition of the natural generalized Laplace transform, we can derive the following transformation:
- 1.
Setting
,
, we obtain the double Sumudu transform:
- 2.
Setting
,
and
, we obtain the double Laplace transform:
- 3.
Setting
,
, and
, we obtain the Laplace–Yang transform:
From the above remark, we conceded that the natural generalized Laplace transform is more general than other transformations.
The NGLT and DNGLT of the function
and
are proposed by
and
so, the NGLT and DNGLT of the partial derivatives
and
are presented by
and
and
are provided by
For further details, the reader is referred to [
17]. The example below provides valuable support for the present analysis.
Example 1. The NGLT of the function is given byand The following theorem is used to handle the singularities.
Theorem 1. The NGLT of the fractional partial derivatives is denoted by Proof. By utilizing the definition of NGLT, we have
By utilizing the derivatives with respect to
for Equation (
9), we get
you can find the derivative inside the brackets like this:
By putting the right-hand-side of Equation (
11) into Equation (
10), we get
By arranging Equation (
12), we have
The first integral on the right side of Equation (
13) is the NGLT of the function
and the second integral is the NGLT of
By manipulating Equation (
14) and using Equation (
5), we will obtain the proof for Equation (
7) as follows
To establish Equation (
9), we can use the derivatives concerning
, so we have
Hence, Equation (
15) becomes
Therefore
The proof is complete. □
3. Convergence Analysis and NGLTDM
This section of the article describes the foundational principles of the natural generalized Laplace transform decomposition method (NGLTDM), which is used to solve time-fractional partial differential equations.
Let us examine the following linear one-dimensional time-fractional partial differential equation along with its initial conditions condition:
and
Here
denotes the Caputo fractional operator,
L the linear differential operator,
H the general nonlinear differential operator, and
the external source term. To study the solution of Equation (
17), we proceed through the following analytical steps:
- Step 1:
Applying the (NGLT) yields the following form of Equation (
17).
- Step 2:
Employing Equation (
5), we get
where
and
are the NT and NGLT for
and
respectively.
- Step 3:
Multiplying Equation (
20) by
, one can get
- Step 4:
Applying the inverse natural generalized Laplace transform to Equation (
21)
- Step 5:
For the linear component, the following formulation is employed:
For the nonlinear component, the formulation is expressed as follows:
where
is given by
Putting Equations (
23) and (
24) into Equation (
22), is granted by
where
The series solution of Equation (
17) is given by Equation (
23).
Theorem 2 (
Uniqueness Theorem)
. Equation (17) has a unique solution, as long as , where Proof. Assume that
is the Banach space of all continuous functions defined on the
and the norm
, then define
in order that
Presume that
and
and additionally let
and
where
are the Lipschitz constants with
and
are two various solutions of Equation (
17). Hence
where
Therefore, the above inequality becomes
So, according to the Banach fixed-point theorem for contractions in [
20], there is a unique solution to Equation (
17). Since (
), it follows that
is a contraction mapping. So, the proof is complete. □
Theorem 3 (
Convergence Theorem)
. Let be a Banach space and be a mapping associated with NGLTMD defined by Equation (23). Consequently, Θ has a unique fixed point, and the series solution of Equation (23) converges to the solution in (17). Proof. To show that
is a Cauchy sequence in
let
denote the partial sum sequence corresponding to Equation (
23). Assume that
Given a partial sum sequence
and
, where
and
utilizing the triangle inequality, it follows that
from
we notice that
; thus
and since
is bounded, hence
at
. Hence, the sequence
is a Cauchy sequence
Consequently, the sequence in the Banach space is
. It follows that the series solution of Equation (
23) converges, which completes the proof of the theorem. □
4. Analysis of the Natural Generalized Laplace Transform Decomposition
Method (NGLTDM)
In this part of the paper, the NGLTDM is a mix of analytical methods that works well and is strong enough to solve fractional NSE.
In order to demonstrate the essential strategy of the NGLTDM, we consider the following time-fractional NSE
under the initial condition
where
is the fractional Caputo derivative,
,
and the right-hand-side function
is the source term. To utilize the NGLTDM, the following steps are required:
- Step 1:
We multiply first Equation (
29) by
and obtain
- Step 2:
Applying the NGLT on both sides of Equation (
2), we have
By using Theorem 1, we get
After algebraic manipulation, we obtain
- Step 3:
By taking the integral for both sides of Equation (
32) from 0 to
u with respect to
u, we get
- Step 4:
By employing the inverse NGLT for Equation (
33), we get
where the symbol
indicates the inverse NGLT. The NGLTDM represents the solution as an infinite series as
by substituting Equation (
35) into Equation (
33), we get
by using NGLTDM, we introduce the recursive relations as:
and the remainder of the terms can be obtained from the following formula
5. Analysis of the Method of Double Natural Generalized Laplace
Transform Decomposition Method (DNGLTDM)
The DNGLTDM is a powerful and adaptable approach for solving a wide range of fractional partial differential equations (FPDEs). It makes hard problems easier and offers exact series solutions for difficult cases. We discuss the following (2 + 1)-dimensional time-fractional NSE.
given the initial condition
where
is the fractional Caputo derivative,
k is defined as the kinematic viscosity of the flow.
denotes dynamic viscosity and
is density;
and
To get a solution for Equation (
39), the following next steps are necessary.
- 1.
By applying DNGLT for Equation (
39), one can get
- 2.
Now, taking DGLT for Equation (
40) and substituting in Equation (
41), we have
where
is the DNGLT of
.
- 3.
On using inverse DNGLT for Equation (
42), we get
and
- 4.
The DNGLTDM solution
and
are offered by the following infinite series
Therefore, the nonlinear terms
and
are fixed by
- 5.
By substituting Equations (
45) and (
46) into Equations (
43) and (
44), one can get
and
We derive a recurrence relation for the above equations by employing decomposition methods; we get
and the remainder of the components
and
are confirmed by
and
where
indicates the DNGLT with respect to
, and IDNGLT is denoted by
with respect to
. We indicated that ITGLT with respect to
and
s exist for Equations (
47)–(
49).
The few terms of the Adomian polynomials
and
are defined
Example 2. Consider the following homogeneous NSE, with the condition given byinitial condition The fractional derivative model is used to introduce the time derivative term; Equation (54) can be written in the form ofwhere By multiplying the above equation with , we haveby applying Equation (31) and Theorem 1, we getBy using the natural transform for the initial condition and substituting it in Equation (58), we obtainBy taking the integral for both sides of Equation (59) from 0 to u with respect to u and dividing the results, we obtain Now the inverse natural generalized Laplace transform of Equation (60) is given byWe assume an infinite series solution of the unknown function is given bySubstituting Equation (62) into Equation (61), we get: The zeroth component is suggested by the Adomian method and always contains the initial condition and the source term, both of which are assumed to be known. Accordingly, we put The remaining components , are given by using the relationby substituting into Equation (64), we getSimilarly, at At we have Thus, the solution for Equation (54) can be expressed as The non-homogeneous time-fractional NSE.The initial condition Applying the natural generalized Laplace transform on both sides of Equation (65), and natural transform to the initial condition in Equation (66), we have Using the formula for the geometric series, the terms and can be written in the form of Operating with the natural generalized Laplace transform inverse on both sides of Equation (67) gives If we use the method above, we can assume that the solution is an infinite series of the form Equation (35), so we have The first several terms of the NGLTDM series are expressed by:and Following the same procedureand Therefore, the series solution is obtained as When in Equation (4), the exact solution for the time-fractional Navier–Stokes equation takes the form Table 1 presents the numerical error analysis at
and
. It is observed that the approximate solution is in excellent agreement with the exact solution. The absolute error remains extremely small across all time levels, confirming the high accuracy of the method. The very small values of the
and
error norms further validate the efficiency and stability of the proposed numerical scheme.
Figure 1a presents a comparison between the exact solution and the obtained numerical solutions of Equation (
4) at
. By taking
, we obtain the exact solution, while for different values of
such as
, we get the approximate fractional solutions.
Figure 1b shows the three-dimensional surface plot of
, illustrating the combined effects of the spatial variable
x and the time variable
on the evolution of the solution.
Example 3. Let us consider the time-fractional, two-dimensional NSE:under the condition By invoking the DNGLT on both sides of Equation (70), we have From the differentiation property of the natural transform, it follows thatBy substituting the initial condition and arranging Equation (71), we have After substituting the initial condition and rearranging Equation (72), we derive The zeroth components and proposed by the Adomian method always include the initial condition and the source term, both of which are presumed to be known, so we set The remaining components , are given by using the relationandThe first several terms of the Adomian polynomials and areBy putting into Equations (74) and (75), we getandSimilarly, at andIn the same way, at we haveAnd by the same way In a similar manner, we have The solution to Equation (70) is given byHence, at and the exact solution of the classical Navier–Stokes equation is given by Table 2 illustrates the comparison between the exact solution and the series approximation at
and
. It is observed that the approximate solution deviates significantly from the exact solution, as indicated by the relatively large absolute errors. Furthermore, the
error norm and
error norm are
and
, respectively.
Figure 2a,b present a comparison between the exact solutions and the obtained numerical solutions of
and
at
. By taking
, we obtain the exact solutions, while for different values of
, we get the approximate solutions.
Figure 2c,d show the three-dimensional plots of the functions
and
at
, illustrating the combined effects of the spatial variables
and
on the evolution of the solutions in three dimensions.
6. Conclusions
This article employs the NGLTDM and DNGLTDM techniques for the time-fractional Navier–Stokes system of partial differential equations. These techniques facilitate the resolution of Caputo fractional-order differential equations and yield accurate solutions via iterative processes. We use Theorem 1 to deal with the singularities, Theorem 2 to make sure there is only one solution, and Theorem 3 to look into how solutions converge. Consequently, NGLTDM and DNGLTDM are instrumental in deriving both exact and numerical solutions to fractional NSE.