A new class of travelling wave solutions for local fractional diffusion differential equations

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we investigate a 3-D diffusion equation within the scope of the local fractional derivative. For this model, we establish local fractional vector operators and a local fractional Laplace operator defined on Cantor-type cylindrical coordinate and Cantor-type spherical coordinate, respectively. With the help of the spherical symmetry method based on those operators, we obtain exact traveling wave solutions of the 3-D diffusion equation. The results reveal that the proposed schemes are very effective for obtaining nondifferentiable solutions of fractional diffusion problems.

Keywords

• Time-space fractional diffusion equation
• Local fractional derivative
• Cantor-type cylindrical coordinate
• Traveling wave