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1 – 10 of 33In the nonlinear model of reaction–diffusion, the Fitzhugh–Nagumo equation plays a very significant role. This paper aims to generate innovative solitary solutions of the…
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In the nonlinear model of reaction–diffusion, the Fitzhugh–Nagumo equation plays a very significant role. This paper aims to generate innovative solitary solutions of the Fitzhugh–Nagumo equation through the use of variational formulation.
Design/methodology/approach
The partial differential equation of Fitzhugh–Nagumo is modified by the appropriate wave transforms into a dimensionless nonlinear ordinary differential equation, which is solved by a semi-inverse variational method.
Findings
This paper uses a variational approach to the Fitzhugh–Nagumo equation developing new solitary solutions. The condition for the continuation of new solitary solutions has been met. In addition, this paper sets out the Fitzhugh–Nagumo equation fractal model and its variational principle. The findings of the solitary solutions have shown that the suggested method is very reliable and efficient. The suggested algorithm is very effective and is almost ideal for use in such problems.
Originality/value
The Fitzhugh–Nagumo equation is an important nonlinear equation for reaction–diffusion and is typically used for modeling nerve impulses transmission. The Fitzhugh–Nagumo equation is reduced to the real Newell–Whitehead equation if β = −1. This study provides researchers with an extremely useful source of information in this area.
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The purpose of this study is to introduce the reproducing kernel algorithm for treating classes of time-fractional partial differential equations subject to Robin boundary…
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The purpose of this study is to introduce the reproducing kernel algorithm for treating classes of time-fractional partial differential equations subject to Robin boundary conditions with parameters derivative arising in fluid flows, fluid dynamics, groundwater hydrology, conservation of energy, heat conduction and electric circuit.
Design/methodology/approach
The method provides appropriate representation of the solutions in convergent series formula with accurately computable components. This representation is given in the W(Ω) and H(Ω) inner product spaces, while the computation of the required grid points relies on the R(y,s) (x, t) and r(y,s) (x, t) reproducing kernel functions.
Findings
Numerical simulation with different order derivatives degree is done including linear and nonlinear terms that are acquired by interrupting the n-term of the exact solutions. Computational results showed that the proposed algorithm is competitive in terms of the quality of the solutions found and is very valid for solving such time-fractional models.
Research limitations/implications
Future work includes the application of the reproducing kernel algorithm to highly nonlinear time-fractional partial differential equations such as those arising in single and multiphase flows. The results will be published in forthcoming papers.
Practical implications
The study included a description of fundamental reproducing kernel algorithm and the concepts of convergence, and error behavior for the reproducing kernel algorithm solvers. Results obtained by the proposed algorithm are found to outperform in terms of accuracy, generality and applicability.
Social implications
Developing analytical and numerical methods for the solutions of time-fractional partial differential equations is a very important task owing to their practical interest.
Originality/value
This study, for the first time, presents reproducing kernel algorithm for obtaining the numerical solutions of some certain classes of Robin time-fractional partial differential equations. An efficient construction is provided to obtain the numerical solutions for the equations, along with an existence proof of the exact solutions based upon the reproducing kernel theory.
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Syed Tauseef Mohyud‐Din, Yasir Khan, Naeem Faraz and Ahmet Yıldırım
The purpose of this paper is to apply exp‐function method to construct generalized solitary and periodic solutions of Fitzhugh‐Nagumo equation, which plays a very important role…
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The purpose of this paper is to apply exp‐function method to construct generalized solitary and periodic solutions of Fitzhugh‐Nagumo equation, which plays a very important role in mathematical physics and engineering sciences.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors apply exp‐function method to construct generalized solitary and periodic solutions of Fitzhugh‐Nagumo equation.
Findings
Numerical results clearly indicate the reliability and efficiency of the proposed exp‐function method. The suggested algorithm is quite efficient and is practically well suited for use in these problems.
Originality/value
In this paper, the authors applied the exp‐function method to obtain solutions of the Fitzhugh‐Nagumo equation and show that the exp‐function method gives more realistic solutions without disturbing the basic physics of the physical problems.
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Mehdi Dehghan, Jalil Manafian Heris and Abbas Saadatmandi
The purpose of this paper is to use He's Exp‐function method (EFM) to construct solitary and soliton solutions of the nonlinear evolution equation.
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The purpose of this paper is to use He's Exp‐function method (EFM) to construct solitary and soliton solutions of the nonlinear evolution equation.
Design/methodology/approach
This technique is straightforward and simple to use and is a powerful method to overcome some difficulties in the nonlinear problems.
Findings
This method is developed for searching exact traveling wave solutions of the nonlinear partial differential equations. The EFM presents a wider applicability for handling nonlinear wave equations.
Originality/value
The paper shows that EFM, with the help of symbolic computation, provides a straightforward and powerful mathematical tool for solving nonlinear evolution equations. Application of EFM to Fitzhugh‐Nagumo equation illustrates its effectiveness.
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Mostafa Abbaszadeh, AliReza Bagheri Salec and Shurooq Kamel Abd Al-Khafaji
The space fractional PDEs (SFPDEs) play an important role in the fractional calculus field. Proposing a high-order, stable and flexible numerical procedure for solving SFPDEs is…
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The space fractional PDEs (SFPDEs) play an important role in the fractional calculus field. Proposing a high-order, stable and flexible numerical procedure for solving SFPDEs is the main aim of most researchers. This paper devotes to developing a novel spectral algorithm to solve the FitzHugh–Nagumo models with space fractional derivatives.
Design/methodology/approach
The fractional derivative is defined based upon the Riesz derivative. First, a second-order finite difference formulation is used to approximate the time derivative. Then, the Jacobi spectral collocation method is employed to discrete the spatial variables. On the other hand, authors assume that the approximate solution is a linear combination of special polynomials which are obtained from the Jacobi polynomials, and also there exists Riesz fractional derivative based on the Jacobi polynomials. Also, a reduced order plan, such as proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method, has been utilized.
Findings
A fast high-order numerical method to decrease the elapsed CPU time has been constructed for solving systems of space fractional PDEs.
Originality/value
The spectral collocation method is combined with the POD idea to solve the system of space-fractional PDEs. The numerical results are acceptable and efficient for the main mathematical model.
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Mehdi Dehghan, Jalil Manafian and Abbas Saadatmandi
Rosenau‐Hyman equation was discovered as a simplified model to study the role of nonlinear dispersion on pattern formation in liquid drops. Also, this equation has important roles…
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Rosenau‐Hyman equation was discovered as a simplified model to study the role of nonlinear dispersion on pattern formation in liquid drops. Also, this equation has important roles in the modelling of various problems in physics and engineering. The purpose of this paper is to present the solution of Rosenau‐Hyman equation.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper aims to present the solution of the Rosenau‐Hyman equation by means of semi‐analytical approaches which are based on the homotopy perturbation method (HPM), variational iteration method (VIM) and Adomian decomposition method (ADM).
Findings
These techniques reduce the volume of calculations by not requiring discretization of the variables, linearization or small perturbations. Numerical solutions obtained by these methods are compared with the exact solutions, revealing that the obtained solutions are of high accuracy. These results reveal that the proposed methods are very effective and simple to perform.
Originality/value
Efficient techniques are developed to find the solution of an important equation.
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Ranjan Kumar Mohanty and Sachin Sharma
This paper aims to develop a new high accuracy numerical method based on off-step non-polynomial spline in tension approximations for the solution of Burgers-Fisher and coupled…
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This paper aims to develop a new high accuracy numerical method based on off-step non-polynomial spline in tension approximations for the solution of Burgers-Fisher and coupled nonlinear Burgers’ equations on a graded mesh. The spline method reported here is third order accurate in space and second order accurate in time. The proposed spline method involves only two off-step points and a central point on a graded mesh. The method is two-level implicit in nature and directly derived from the continuity condition of the first order space derivative of the non-polynomial tension spline function. The linear stability analysis of the proposed method has been examined and it is shown that the proposed two-level method is unconditionally stable for a linear model problem. The method is directly applicable to problems in polar systems. To demonstrate the strength and utility of the proposed method, the authors have solved the generalized Burgers-Huxley equation, generalized Burgers-Fisher equation, coupled Burgers-equations and parabolic equation in polar coordinates. The authors show that the proposed method enables us to obtain the high accurate solution for high Reynolds number.
Design/methodology/approach
In this method, the authors use only two-level in time-direction, and at each time-level, the authors use three grid points for the unknown function u(x,t) and two off-step points for the known variable x in spatial direction. The methodology followed in this paper is the construction of a non-polynomial spline function and using its continuity properties to obtain consistency condition, which is third order accurate on a graded mesh and fourth order accurate on a uniform mesh. From this consistency condition, the authors derive the proposed numerical method. The proposed method, when applied to a linear equation is shown to be unconditionally stable. To assess the validity and accuracy, the method is applied to solve several benchmark problems, and numerical results are provided to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed method.
Findings
The paper provides a third order numerical scheme on a graded mesh and fourth order spline method on a uniform mesh obtained directly from the consistency condition. In earlier methods, consistency conditions were only second order accurate. This brings an edge over other past methods. Also, the method is directly applicable to physical problems involving singular coefficients. So no modification in the method is required at singular points. This saves CPU time and computational costs.
Research limitations/implications
There are no limitations. Obtaining a high accuracy spline method directly from the consistency condition is a new work. Also being an implicit method, this method is unconditionally stable.
Practical implications
Physical problems with singular and non-singular coefficients are directly solved by this method.
Originality/value
The paper develops a new method based on non-polynomial spline approximations of order two in time and three (four) in space, which is original and has lot of value because many benchmark problems of physical significance are solved in this method.
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Sumaira Qayyum, Muhammad Ijaz Khan, Tasawar Hayat and Ahmed Alsaedi
The purpose of this study is to analyze the Entropy generation analysis and heat transport in three-dimensional flow between two stretchable disks. Joule heating and heat…
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the Entropy generation analysis and heat transport in three-dimensional flow between two stretchable disks. Joule heating and heat generation/absorption are incorporated in the thermal equation. Thermo-diffusion effect is also considered. Flow is conducting for time-dependent applied magnetic field. Induced magnetic field is not taken into consideration. Velocity and thermal slip conditions at both the disks are implemented. The flow problem is modeled by using Navier–Stokes equations with entropy generation rate and Bejan number.
Design/methodology/approach
Von Karman transformations are used to reduce the nonlinear governing expressions into an ordinary one and then tackled by homotopy analysis method for convergent series solutions. The nonlinear expressions for total entropy generation rate are obtained with appropriate transformations. The impacts of different flow variables on velocity, temperature, entropy generation rate and Bejan number are described graphically. Velocity, temperature and concentration gradients are discussed in the presence of flow variables.
Findings
Axial, radial and tangential velocity profiles show decreasing trend for larger values of velocity slip parameters. For a larger Brinkman number, the entropy generation increases, while a decreasing trend is noticed for Bejan number.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no such analyses have been reported in the literature.
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Changfu Liu, Zeping Wang, Zhengde Dai and Longwei Chen
The purpose of this paper is to construct analytical solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations, and the existence of rogue waves and their localized…
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The purpose of this paper is to construct analytical solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations, and the existence of rogue waves and their localized structures are studied.
Design/methodology/approach
Function transformation and variable separation method are applied to the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
Findings
A series of analytical solutions including rogue wave solutions for the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations are constructed. Localized structures of rogue waves confirm the presence of large amplitude wave wall.
Research limitations/implications
The localized structures of rogue waves are displayed by analytical solutions and figures. The authors just find some of them and others still to be found.
Originality/value
These results may help to investigate the localized structures and the behavior of rogue waves for nonlinear evolution equations. Applying two different function transformations and variable separation functions to two different states of the equations, respectively, to construct the solutions of the (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Rogue wave solutions are enumerated and their figures are partly displayed.
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