Explicit and approximate series solutions for nonlinear fractional wave-like differential equations with variable coefficients

Abstract

This work investigates the exact and accurate approximate series solutions of the strongly nonlinear wave-like differential equations of fractional order with variable coefficients utilizing the Laplace residual power series technique in the 2D, and 3D-space. The posed model is a notable model in mathematical physics, engineering physics, and biophysics, to characterize the variations in laser light intensity, and fluid particle velocity distributions in turbulent flows. In the meaning of Caputo fractional derivative, the posed models are solved analytically via simulation of the generalized Taylor formula in the Laplace space. Different from the other analytic methods, an easy recurrence formula for finding the Laplace power series coefficients is derived. To validate the proposed approach, it is applied to three interesting problems. The approximate analytical solutions of studied fractional problems are expressed in fast-converging Caputo-fractional Maclaurin formulas. The results are numerically and graphically analyzed to demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of the technique, as well as to examine the effects of partial arrangement on the behavior of the solutions. Ultimately, the results and numerical simulations indicate that the used technique is an effective approach and accurate tool for solving fractional evolution models and other fractional models arising in nonlinear phenomena.

Keywords

• Residual power series
• Laplace transform
• Wave-like equations
• Caputo fractional derivative