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Article
Publication date: 29 July 2014

Hong-Yan Liu, Ji-Huan He and Zheng-Biao Li

Academic and industrial researches on nanoscale flows and heat transfers are an area of increasing global interest, where fascinating phenomena are always observed, e.g. admirable…

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Purpose

Academic and industrial researches on nanoscale flows and heat transfers are an area of increasing global interest, where fascinating phenomena are always observed, e.g. admirable water or air permeation and remarkable thermal conductivity. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the phenomena by the fractional calculus.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper begins with the continuum assumption in conventional theories, and then the fractional Gauss’ divergence theorems are used to derive fractional differential equations in fractal media. Fractional derivatives are introduced heuristically by the variational iteration method, and fractal derivatives are explained geometrically. Some effective analytical approaches to fractional differential equations, e.g. the variational iteration method, the homotopy perturbation method and the fractional complex transform, are outlined and the main solution processes are given.

Findings

Heat conduction in silk cocoon and ground water flow are modeled by the local fractional calculus, the solutions can explain well experimental observations.

Originality/value

Particular attention is paid throughout the paper to giving an intuitive grasp for fractional calculus. Most cited references are within last five years, catching the most frontier of the research. Some ideas on this review paper are first appeared.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 24 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 2 November 2015

Zhijuan Jia, Mingsheng Hu, Qiaoling Chen and Suimin Jai

The fractional complex transform is used to convert the fractional differential equation to its differential partner and the exp-function method is to solve the resultant…

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Abstract

Purpose

The fractional complex transform is used to convert the fractional differential equation to its differential partner and the exp-function method is to solve the resultant equation. The exact solutions for the equation are successfully established. The paper aims to discuss these issues.

Design/methodology/approach

Use the chain rule of the local fractional derivative and the exp-function method.

Findings

Some new exact solutions for the fractional differential equation are successfully established, and the process of the solution is extremely simple and remarkably accessible.

Originality/value

The fractional complex transform is used to convert the fractional differential equation to its differential partner and the exp-function method is to solve the resultant equation.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 25 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 1 June 2021

Muhammad Nadeem and Ji-Huan He

The purpose of this paper is to find an approximate solution of a fractional differential equation. The fractional Newell–Whitehead–Segel equation (FNWSE) is used to elucidate the…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to find an approximate solution of a fractional differential equation. The fractional Newell–Whitehead–Segel equation (FNWSE) is used to elucidate the solution process, which is one of the nonlinear amplitude equation, and it enhances a significant role in the modeling of various physical phenomena arising in fluid mechanics, solid-state physics, optics, plasma physics, dispersion and convection systems.

Design/methodology/approach

In Part 1, the authors adopted Mohand transform to find the analytical solution of FNWSE. In this part, the authors apply the fractional complex transform (the two-scale transform) to convert the problem into its differential partner, and then they introduce the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) to bring down the nonlinear terms for the approximate solution.

Findings

The HPM makes numerical simulation for the fractional differential equations easy, and the two-scale transform is a strong tool for fractal models.

Originality/value

The HPM with the two-scale transform sheds a bright light on numerical approach to fractional calculus.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 32 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 11 February 2021

Muhammad Nadeem, Ji-Huan He and Asad Islam

This study aims that very lately, Mohand transform is introduced to solve the ordinary and partial differential equations (PDEs). In this paper, the authors modify this…

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Purpose

This study aims that very lately, Mohand transform is introduced to solve the ordinary and partial differential equations (PDEs). In this paper, the authors modify this transformation and associate it with a further analytical method called homotopy perturbation method (HPM) for the fractional view of Newell–Whitehead–Segel equation (NWSE). As Mohand transform is restricted to linear obstacles only, as a consequence, HPM is used to crack the nonlinear terms arising in the illustrated problems. The fractional derivatives are taken into the Caputo sense.

Design/methodology/approach

The specific objective of this study is to examine the problem which performs an efficient role in the form of stripe orders of two dimensional systems. The authors achieve the multiple behaviors and properties of fractional NWSE with different positive integers.

Findings

The main finding of this paper is to analyze the fractional view of NWSE. The obtain results perform very good in agreement with exact solution. The authors show that this strategy is absolutely very easy and smooth and have no assumption for the constriction of this approach.

Research limitations/implications

This paper invokes these two main inspirations: first, Mohand transform is associated with HPM, secondly, fractional view of NWSE with different positive integers.

Practical implications

In this paper, the graph of approximate solution has the excellent promise with the graphs of exact solutions.

Social implications

This paper presents valuable technique for handling the fractional PDEs without involving any restrictions or hypothesis.

Originality/value

The authors discuss the fractional view of NWSE by a Mohand transform. The work of the present paper is original and advanced. Significantly, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no such work has yet been published in the literature.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 31 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 2 November 2022

Muhammad Nadeem and Zitian Li

This study aims to purpose the idea of a new hybrid approach to examine the approximate solution of the fourth-order partial differential equations (PDEs) with time fractional

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Purpose

This study aims to purpose the idea of a new hybrid approach to examine the approximate solution of the fourth-order partial differential equations (PDEs) with time fractional derivative that governs the behaviour of a vibrating beam. The authors have also demonstrated the physical representations of the problem in different fractional order.

Design/methodology/approach

Mohand transform is a new technique that the authors use to reduce the order of fractional problems, and then the homotopy perturbation method can be used to handle the further series solution in the form of convergence. The formulation of Mohand transform and the homotopy perturbation method is known as Mohand homotopy perturbation transform (MHPT). The fractional order in this paper is considered in the Caputo sense.

Findings

The results are formulated in the shape of iterative series and predict the solution close to the exact solution. This successive iteration demonstrates the authenticity and reliability of this scheme.

Research limitations/implications

This paper presents the significance of MHPT such that, firstly, Mohand transform is coupled with homotopy perturbation method and, secondly, the fractional order a is used to show the physical behaviour of the graphical solution.

Practical implications

This study presents the consistency and authenticity of the graphical solution with the exact solutions.

Social implications

This study demonstrates that Mohand transform is capable to handle the fractional order problem without any constraints and assumptions.

Originality/value

A new integral transform has been introduced without any restriction of variables that produces the results in a series form and confirms the validity of the proposed algorithm by graphical illustrations.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 33 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 7 October 2021

Sunil Kumar, Surath Ghosh, Shaher Momani and S. Hadid

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species…

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Purpose

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. This paper aims to propose a new Yang-Abdel-Aty-Cattani (YAC) fractional operator with a non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this study has explained the analytical methods, reduced differential transform method (RDTM) and residual power series method (RPSM) taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense.

Design/methodology/approach

This study has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense.

Findings

This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Research limitations/implications

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this study, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this study has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Practical implications

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this paper, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation which is arised in biological population model. Here, this study has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Social implications

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this paper, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this paper has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Originality/value

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this paper, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this paper has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

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Article
Publication date: 15 December 2020

Tarikul Islam and Armina Akter

Fractional order nonlinear evolution equations (FNLEEs) pertaining to conformable fractional derivative are considered to be revealed for well-furnished analytic solutions due to…

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Purpose

Fractional order nonlinear evolution equations (FNLEEs) pertaining to conformable fractional derivative are considered to be revealed for well-furnished analytic solutions due to their importance in the nature of real world. In this article, the autors suggest a productive technique, called the rational fractional (DξαG/G)-expansion method, to unravel the nonlinear space-time fractional potential Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (PKP) equation, the nonlinear space-time fractional Sharma–Tasso–Olver (STO) equation and the nonlinear space-time fractional Kolmogorov–Petrovskii–Piskunov (KPP) equation. A fractional complex transformation technique is used to convert the considered equations into the fractional order ordinary differential equation. Then the method is employed to make available their solutions. The constructed solutions in terms of trigonometric function, hyperbolic function and rational function are claimed to be fresh and further general in closed form. These solutions might play important roles to depict the complex physical phenomena arise in physics, mathematical physics and engineering.

Design/methodology/approach

The rational fractional (DξαG/G)-expansion method shows high performance and might be used as a strong tool to unravel any other FNLEEs. This method is of the form U(ξ)=i=0nai(DξαG/G)i/i=0nbi(DξαG/G)i.

Findings

Achieved fresh and further abundant closed form traveling wave solutions to analyze the inner mechanisms of complex phenomenon in nature world which will bear a significant role in the of research and will be recorded in the literature.

Originality/value

The rational fractional (DξαG/G)-expansion method shows high performance and might be used as a strong tool to unravel any other FNLEEs. This method is newly established and productive.

Article
Publication date: 15 February 2023

Xiankang Luo and Muhammad Nadeem

This study aims to investigate the approximate solution of the time fractional time-fractional Newell–Whitehead–Segel (TFNWS) model that reflects the appearance of the stripe…

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Purpose

This study aims to investigate the approximate solution of the time fractional time-fractional Newell–Whitehead–Segel (TFNWS) model that reflects the appearance of the stripe patterns in two-dimensional systems. The significant results of plot distribution show that the proposed approach is highly authentic and reliable for the fractional-order models.

Design/methodology/approach

The Laplace transform residual power series method (ℒT-RPSM) is the combination of Laplace transform (ℒT) and residual power series method (RPSM). The ℒT is examined to minimize the order of fractional order, whereas the RPSM handles the series solution in the form of convergence. The graphical results of the fractional models are represented through the fractional order α.

Findings

The derived results are obtained in a successive series and yield the results toward the exact solution. These successive series confirm the consistency and accuracy of ℒT-RPSM. This study also compares the exact solutions with the graphical solutions to show the performance and authenticity of the visual solutions. The proposed scheme does not require the restriction of variables and produces the numerical results in terms of a series. This strategy is capable to handle the nonlinear terms very easily for the TFNWS model.

Originality/value

This paper presents the original work. This study reveals that ℒT can perform the solution of fractional-order models without any restriction of variables.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 33 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 7 September 2015

Zheng-Biao Li and Wei-Hong Zhu

– The purpose of this paper is to suggest a new analytical technique called the fractional series expansion method for solving linear fractional differential equations (FDEs).

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a new analytical technique called the fractional series expansion method for solving linear fractional differential equations (FDEs).

Design/methodology/approach

This method is based on the idea of Kantorovich method, convergent series, and the modified Riemann-Liouville derivative.

Findings

This work suggests a new analytical technique. The FDEs are described in Jumarie’s sense.

Originality/value

It finds a new method for solving linear FDEs. The solution procedure is elucidated by two examples.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 25 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 5 January 2015

Limei Yan

The purpose of this paper is to apply the fractional sub-equation method to research on coupled fractional variant Boussinesq equation and fractional approximate long water wave…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to apply the fractional sub-equation method to research on coupled fractional variant Boussinesq equation and fractional approximate long water wave equation.

Design/methodology/approach

The algorithm is implemented with the aid of fractional Ricatti equation and the symbol computational system Mathematica.

Findings

New travelling wave solutions, which include generalized hyperbolic function solutions, generalized trigonometric function solutions and rational solutions, for these two equations are obtained.

Originality/value

The algorithm is demonstrated to be direct and precise, and can be used for many other nonlinear fractional partial differential equations. The fractional derivatives described in this paper are in the Jumarie's modified Riemann-Liouville sense.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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