Uncertain inverse problem for fractional dynamical systems using perturbed collage theorem

Part I: Transmutations, Integral Equations and Special Functions.- Some Recent Developments in the Transmutation Operator Approach.- Transmutation Operators and Their Applications.- Hankel Generalized Convolutions with the Associated Legendre Functions in the Kernel and Their Applications.- Second Type Neumann Series Related to Nicholson's and to Dixon-Ferrar Formula.- On Some Generalizations of the Properties of the Multidimensional Generalized Erdelyi-Kober Operators and Their Applications.- Alternative Approach to Miller-Paris Transformations and Their Extensions.- Transmutation Operators For Ordinary Dunkl-Darboux Operators.- Theorems on Restriction of Fourier-Bessel and Multidimensional Bessel Transforms to Spherical Surfaces.- Necessary Condition for the Existence of an Intertwining Operator and Classification of Transmutations on Its Basis.- Polynomial Quantization on Line Bundles.- Fourier-Bessel Transforms of Measures and Qualitative Properties of Solutions of Singular Differential Equations.- Inversion of Hyperbolic B-Potentials.- One-Dimensional and Multi-Dimensional Integral Transforms of Buschman-Erdelyi Type with Legendre Functions in Kernels.- Distributions, Non-smooth Manifolds, Transmutations and Boundary Value Problems.- Part II: Transmutations in ODEs, Direct and Inverse Problems.- On a Transformation Operator Approach in the Inverse Spectral Theory of Integral and Integro-Differential Operators.- Expansion in Terms of Appropriate Functions and Transmutations.- Transmutation Operators as a Solvability Concept of Abstract Singular Equations.- On the Bessel-Wright Operator and Transmutation with Applications.- On a Method of Solving Integral Equation of Carleman Type on the Pair of Segments.- Transmutation Operators Boundary Value Problems.- Solution of Inverse Problems for Differential Operators with Delay.- Part III: Transmutations for Partial and Fractional Differential Equations.- Transmutations of the Composed Erdelyi-Kober Fractional Operators and Their Applications.- Distributed Order Equations in Banach Spaces with Sectorial Operators.- Transformation Operators for Fractional Order Ordinary Differential Equations and Their applications.- Strong Solutions of Semilinear Equations with Lower Fractional Derivatives.- Mean Value Theorems and Properties of Solutions of Linear Differential Equations.- Transmutations for Multi-Term Fractional Operators.- Fractional Bessel Integrals and Derivatives on Semi-axes.- The Fractional Derivative Expansion Method in Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures: A Memorial Essay.- Boundary Value Problem with Integral Condition for the Mixed Type Equation with a Singular Coefficient.

Over the last two decades, anomalous diffusion processes in which the mean squares variance grows slower or faster than that in a Gaussian process have found many applications. At a macroscopic level, these processes are adequately described by fractional differential equations, which involves fractional derivatives in time or/and space. The fractional derivatives describe either history mechanism or long range interactions of particle motions at a microscopic level. The new physics can change dramatically the behavior of the forward problems. For example, the solution operator of the time fractional diffusion diffusion equation has only limited smoothing property, whereas the solution for the space fractional diffusion equation may contain weak singularity. Naturally one expects that the new physics will impact related inverse problems in terms of uniqueness, stability, and degree of ill-posedness. The last aspect is especially important from a practical point of view, i.e., stably reconstructing the quantities of interest. In this paper, we employ a formal analytic and numerical way, especially the two-parameter Mittag-Leffler function and singular value decomposition, to examine the degree of ill-posedness of several ‘classical’ inverse problems for fractional differential equations involving a Djrbashian–Caputo fractional derivative in either time or space, which represent the fractional analogues of that for classical integral order differential equations. We discuss four inverse problems, i.e., backward fractional diffusion, sideways problem, inverse source problem and inverse potential problem for time fractional diffusion, and inverse Sturm–Liouville problem, Cauchy problem, backward fractional diffusion and sideways problem for space fractional diffusion. It is found that contrary to the wide belief, the influence of anomalous diffusion on the degree of ill-posedness is not definitive: it can either significantly improve or worsen the conditioning of related inverse problems, depending crucially on the specific type of given data and quantity of interest. Further, the study exhibits distinct new features of ‘fractional’ inverse problems, and a partial list of surprising observations is given below. (a) Classical backward diffusion is exponentially ill-posed, whereas time fractional backward diffusion is only mildly ill-posed in the sense of norms on the domain and range spaces. However, this does not imply that the latter always allows a more effective reconstruction. (b) Theoretically, the time fractional sideways problem is severely ill-posed like its classical counterpart, but numerically can be nearly well-posed. (c) The classical Sturm–Liouville problem requires two pieces of spectral data to uniquely determine a general potential, but in the fractional case, one single Dirichlet spectrum may suffice. (d) The space fractional sideways problem can be far more or far less ill-posed than the classical counterpart, depending on the location of the lateral Cauchy data. In many cases, the precise mechanism of these surprising observations is unclear, and awaits further analytical and numerical exploration, which requires new mathematical tools and ingenuities. Further, our findings indicate fractional diffusion inverse problems also provide an excellent case study in the differences between theoretical ill-conditioning involving domain and range norms and the numerical analysis of a finite-dimensional reconstruction procedure. Throughout we will also describe known analytical and numerical results in the literature.

At present, the theory of fractional calculus is widely used in many fields of science for modeling various processes. Differential equations with fractional derivatives are used to model the migration of pollutants in porous inhomogeneous media and allow a more correct description of the behavior of pollutants at large distances from the source. The analytical solution of differential equations with fractional order derivatives is often very complicated or even impossible. There has been proposed a numerical method for solving fractional differential equations in partial derivatives with respect to time to describe the migration of pollutants in groundwater. An implicit difference scheme is developed for the numerical solution of a non-stationary fractional differential equation, which is an analogue of the well-known implicit Crank-Nicholson difference scheme. The system of difference equations is presented in matrix form. The solution of the problem is reduced to the multiple solution of a tridiagonal system of linear algebraic equations by the tridiagonal matrix algorithm. The results of evaluating the spread of pollutant in groundwater based on the numerical method for model examples are presented. The concentrations of the substance obtained on the basis of the analytical and numerical solutions of the unsteady one-dimensional fractional differential equation are compared. The results obtained using the proposed method and on the basis of the well-known analytical solution of the fractional differential equation are in fairly good agreement with each other. The relative error is on average 9%. In contrast to the well-known analytical solution, the developed numerical method can be used to model the spread of pollutants in groundwater, taking into account their biodegradation.

Realizing the behavior of the solution in the asymptotic situations is essential for repetitive applications in the control theory and modeling of the real-world systems. This study discusses a robust and definitive attitude to find the interval approximate asymptotic solutions of fractional differential equations (FDEs) with the Atangana-Baleanu (A-B) derivative. In fact, such critical tasks require to observe precisely the behavior of the noninterval case at first. In this regard, we initially shed light on the noninterval cases and analyze the behavior of the approximate asymptotic solutions, and then, we introduce the A-B derivative for FDEs under interval arithmetic and develop a new and reliable approximation approach for fractional interval differential equations with the interval A-B derivative to get the interval approximate asymptotic solutions. We exploit Laplace transforms to get the asymptotic approximate solution based on the interval asymptotic A-B fractional derivatives under interval arithmetic. The techniques developed here provide essential tools for finding interval approximation asymptotic solutions under interval fractional derivatives with nonsingular Mittag-Leffler kernels. Two cases arising in the real-world systems are modeled under interval notion and given to interpret the behavior of the interval approximate asymptotic solutions under different conditions as well as to validate this new approach. This study highlights the importance of the asymptotic solutions for FDEs regardless of interval or noninterval parameters.

A study on the conformable model of alcohol consumption in Spain has been presented. For the proposed model, the existence as well as the uniqueness of the solution has been discussed with the help of fixed-point theory. An analytical technique, Variational Iteration Method (VIM), has been used to obtain the solution to the governing system of differential equations. With the help of suitable plots, the role of fractional order derivative has been highlighted. For decreasing values of fractional order derivative, decrease in the number of non-consumers and non-risk consumers has been observed. By increasing the value of fractional order derivative, a sharp decrease can be seen in the compartment of risk-consumers. The agreement between the current study and the already existing studies, with ordinary derivatives, has also been pointed out.

In this paper we describe a method to solve the linear non-homogeneous fractional differential equations (FDE), composed with Jumarie type Fractional Derivative, and describe this method developed by us, to find out Particular Integrals, for several types of forcing functions. The solutions are obtained in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions, fractional sine and cosine functions. We have used our earlier developed method of finding solution to homogeneous FDE composed via Jumarie fractional derivative, and extended this to non-homogeneous FDE. We have demonstrated these developed methods with few examples of FDE, and also applied in fractional damped forced differential equation. This method proposed by us is useful as it is having conjugation with the classical methods of solving non-homogeneous linear differential equations, and also useful in understanding physical systems described by FDE.

This paper studies fractional differential equations (FDEs) with mixed fractional derivatives. Existence, uniqueness, stability, and asymptotic results are derived.

Explicit solutions of fractional integral and differential equations involving Erdélyi-Kober operators

A new approach for space-time fractional partial differential equations by residual power series method

This study provides an approximate analytical solution to the fractional vibration problem of thin plate governing anomalous motion of plate subjected to in-plane loads. The method of variable separable is employed to transform the fractional partial differential equations under consideration into a fractional ordinary differential equation in temporal variable and a bi-harmonic plate equation in spatial variable. The technique of conformable fractional derivative is utilized to solve the resulting fractional differential equation and the approach of finite sine integral transform method is used to solve the accompanying bi-harmonic plate equation. The deflection field which measures the transverse displacement of the plate is expressed in terms of product of Bessel and trigonometric functions via the temporal and spatial variables respectively. The obtained solution reduces to the solution of the free vibration problem of thin plate in literature. This work shows that conformable fractional derivative is an efficient mathematical tool for tracking analytical solution of fractional partial differential equation governing anomalous vibration of thin plates.

This paper presents a numerical scheme for the solutions of Fractional Differential Equations (FDEs) of order α, 1 < α < 2 which have been expressed in terms of Caputo Fractional Derivative (FD). In this scheme, the properties of the Caputo derivative are used to reduce an FDE into a Volterra type integral equation. The entire domain is divided into several small domains, and the distribution of the unknown function over the domain is expressed in terms of the function values and its slopes at the node points. These approximations are then substituted into the Volterra type integral equation to reduce it to algebraic equations. Since the method enforces the continuity of variables at the node points, it provides a solution that is continuous and with a slope that is also continuous over the entire domain. The method is used to solve a simple FDE using two different types of polynomials, namely cubic order and fractional order. Results obtained using both types of polynomials agree well with the analytical results. However, the fractional order polynomials give more accurate results than the cubic order polynomials do. This suggests that for the numerical solutions of FDEs fractional order polynomials may be more suitable than the integer order polynomials. A series of numerical studies suggests that the algorithm is stable.

Haar wavelet collocation method is applied for the numerical solution of fractional partial differential equations. The proposed method is first applied to one‐dimensional fractional partial differential equations and then it is extended to higher‐dimensional fractional partial differential equations as well. Both time‐fractional as well as space–time‐fractional partial differential equations are considered. The fractional order derivatives involved are evaluated using the Caputo definition. The proposed method is semi‐analytic as it involves exact integration of Caputo derivative. The proposed method is widely applicable and robust. The method is tested upon several test problems. The results are computed and presented in the form of maximum absolute errors. The numerical tests confirm the accuracy, efficiency and simple applicability of the proposed method.

The aim of the present analysis is to apply the Adomian decomposition method and He's variational method for the approximate analytical solution of a nonlinear ordinary fractional differential equation. The solutions obtained by the above two methods have been numerically evaluated and presented in the form of tables and also compared with the exact solution. It was found that the results obtained by the above two methods are in excellent agreement with the exact solution. Finally, a surface plot of the approximate solutions of the fractional differential equation by the above two methods is drawn for 0⩽t⩽2 and 1<α⩽2.

This study uses the optimal auxiliary function method to approximate solutions for fractional-order non-linear partial differential equations, utilizing Riemann–Liouville’s fractional integral and the Caputo derivative. This approach eliminates the need for assumptions about parameter magnitudes, offering a significant advantage. We validate our approach using the time-fractional Cahn–Hilliard, fractional Burgers–Poisson, and Benjamin–Bona–Mahony–Burger equations. Comparative testing shows that our method outperforms new iterative, homotopy perturbation, homotopy analysis, and residual power series methods. These examples highlight our method’s effectiveness in obtaining precise solutions for non-linear fractional differential equations, showcasing its superiority in accuracy and consistency. We underscore its potential for revealing elusive exact solutions by demonstrating success across various examples. Our methodology advances fractional differential equation research and equips practitioners with a tool for solving non-linear equations. A key feature is its ability to avoid parameter assumptions, enhancing its applicability to a broader range of problems and expanding the scope of problems addressable using fractional calculus techniques.

In this manuscript, we give a partial answer to Reich’s problem on multivalued contraction mappings and generalize Mizoguchi–Takahashi’s fixed point theorem using a new approach of multivalued orthogonal $$(\tau ,F)$$ -contraction mappings in the framework of orthogonal metric spaces. We give a nontrivial example to prove the validity of our results. Some interesting consequences are also deduced. Finally, as application, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution of a nonlinear fractional differential equation.