Abstract
In this research, we study a general class of variable order integro-differential equations (VO-IDEs). We propose a numerical scheme based on the shifted fifth-kind Chebyshev polynomials (SFKCPs). First, in this scheme, we expand the unknown function and its derivatives in terms of the SFKCPs. To carry out the proposed scheme, we calculate the operational matrices depending on the SFKCPs to find an approximate solution of the original problem. These matrices, together with the collocation points, are used to transform the original problem to form a system of linear or nonlinear algebraic equations. We discuss the convergence of the method and then give an estimation of the error. We end by solving numerical tests, which show the high accuracy of our results.
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1 Introduction
Fractional calculus, which is a generalization of differentiation and integration from integer order to any arbitrary order, has attracted numerous researchers in engineering and science [1–13]. Different problems in variety fields of applied science can be described by fractional derivatives (FDs). Recently, Khan and Atangana [14] have modeled the dynamics of novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) with FD. Also, Ganji et al. [15] have simulated a mathematical model of brain tumor involving fractional derivative.
Since the order of fractional integrals and derivatives may take any arbitrary value, a new extension of these operators has been proposed such that the order of these operators is not a constant but a function of some independent variables such as time or space. In 1993, Samko and Ross [16] were the first researchers who have suggested the study of VO operators. Then theory-based studies of VO calculus have been more deeply investigated by Lorenzo and Hartley [17]. Soon after, many definitions of VO derivative operators have been introduced by some researchers such as Riemann–Liouville (RL) [18, 19], Lorenzo–Hartley [17], Coimbra [20], and Caputo [2, 21] derivatives. These operators have been used to describe some models in a variety of science fields including biochemical tumorous bone remodeling models [22], characterizing the dynamics of van der Pol oscillators [23]; see also [24, 25]. Since in this type of problems, we confront with a kernel of VO [26], computing analytical solutions is very difficult. Hence developing effective numerical techniques for finding approximate solution for such problems is very important and necessary. In recent years, many researchers have proposed different schemes to solve this kind of problems. To mention a few, we refer to [27–30], where the authors have applied operational matrices based on various polynomials to get approximate solutions of different problems of VO.
A significant aim of this research is to express a numerical scheme to solve the following VO-IDEs:
with initial conditions
where \(p-1<\upsilon (t)\leq p \), p is a positive integer number, F is a given continuous function, λ and \(\mathfrak{a}_{i}\), \(i=0,1,\ldots ,p-1 \), are real constants, \(K_{1}\), \(K_{2}\), \(\phi _{1}\), and \(\phi _{2}\) are given known functions, \(z(t) \) is the unknown solution, and \({{}^{C}D^{\upsilon (t)}_{t} }\) denotes the variable-order derivative operator in the Caputo sense.
Many researchers in various fields of science employ orthogonal basis functions to get approximate solutions for many problems [31–33]. The fifth-kind Chebyshev polynomials consist a special class of symmetric orthogonal polynomials, which are created with the help of the extended Sturm–Liouville theorem for symmetric functions. In this work, with the help of these polynomials, we reduce problem (1)–(2) to the solution of a system of nonlinear algebraic equations, which greatly simplifies the problem under study.
The design of this research is as follows. In Sect. 2, we introduce some essential definitions of variable fractional calculus and some basic properties of the SFKCPs. Section 3 is devoted to proposing a numerical scheme to solve problem (1)–(2). In Sect. 4, we study an error bound of the proposed scheme. Section 5 includes some examples. In the end, we give concluding remarks in Sect. 6.
2 Perliminaries
In this section, we present the definitions of VO RL-integral and Caputo derivative. Then, some basic properties of the SFKCPs are given which are used later.
2.1 VO fractional calculus
Definition 2.1
(See [34])
Let \(p-1<\upsilon (t)\leq p\) and \(z\in C[0,1] \). The RL-integral and Caputo derivative of VO \(\upsilon (t)\) are, respectively, defined by
Two main properties of these operators are given as follows:
2.2 Definition of the SFKCPs and function approximation
The SFKCPs on the interval \([0,1] \) are defined by [28, 35]
where \(\mathcal{C}_{m}(t) \) is the fifth-kind Chebyshev polynomial defined on \([-1,1] \) as follows:
where
and
with
Furthermore, the analytic form of the SFKCPs of degree m is given by
where
and
Also, the orthogonality condition is given for these polynomials as follows:
where \(w^{*}(t)= \frac{(2t-1)^{2}}{\sqrt{t-t^{2}}} \).
Lemma 2.1
(See [35])
The SFKCPs satisfy the following boundedness property on \([0,1] \) for all \(s\geq 0 \):
Suppose that \(r_{1}, r_{2}\in L^{2}_{w^{*}}(0,1)\). Then the inner product and norm in \(L^{2}_{w^{*}}(0,1)\) are, respectively, defined by
Any arbitrary function \(z(t)\in L_{w^{*}}^{2}(0,1)\) can be expanded by the SFKCPs as
By considering only the first \(M+1\) terms in (5), we can approximate \(z(t)\) as
where
and in the vector \(Z=[z_{0},z_{1},\ldots ,z_{M}]^{T}\), the entries \(z_{i}\), \(i=0,1,\ldots ,M \), are given by
In a similar way, a bivariate function \(f(t,\tau )\in L^{2}_{w^{*}} ((0,1)\times (0,1) ) \) can be approximated based on the SFKCPs as
where F is an \((M+1)\times (M+1)\) matrix given by
We can consider the vector \(\varphi (t)\) in a matrix form as
where \(A=[a_{i,j}]\), \(i,j=0,1,\ldots ,M \), with
\(\varsigma _{i,j} \) are given by (4), and
Theorem 2.1
(See [35])
Suppose that \(z(t)\in L^{2}_{w^{*}}(0,1) \) with \(\vert z^{(3)}(t)\vert \leq \theta \). Let \(\sum_{i=0}^{\infty }z_{i}\mathcal{C}_{i}^{*}(t)\) be its expansion using the SFKCPs. Then, for \(i>3\), the coefficient \(z_{i}\) is bounded as
Lemma 2.2
Consider the basis vector \(\varphi (t)\) defined by (7). By applying the first-order derivative on this vector we get
where D is the operational matrix of derivative based on the SFKCPs given by
Also, for \(m\geq 2 \), we can write
Proof
It can be easily proved in a similar way as that of the corresponding theorem in [36]. □
Lemma 2.3
For the vector \(\varphi (t) \) given by (7), the dual operational matrix Q is given by
where \(Q=AHA^{T}\) with the well-known Hilbert matrix H.
Proof
The proof process is similar to that given in [36]. □
Lemma 2.4
The integral of the vector \(\varphi (t) \) given by (7) can be approximated as
where P is called the operational matrix of integration for the SFKCPs.
Proof
Using (7), we write
where \(B=[b_{i,j}]\), \(i,j=0,1,\ldots ,M \), is an \((M+1)\times (M+1) \) matrix with elements
and
Now, by approximating \(t^{k}\), \(k=1,2,\ldots ,M+1 \), in terms of the SFKCPs using (7), we have
where \(A^{-1}_{i}\), \(i=2,3,\ldots ,M+1\), is the ith row of the matrix \(A^{-1}\), and \(\mathfrak{L}=\langle t^{M+1}, \varphi (t)\rangle _{w^{*}} \). Then, we get
where \(E= [ A_{2}^{-1},A_{3}^{-1},\ldots ,A_{M+1}^{-1},\mathfrak{L}^{T} ] ^{T} \). Therefore by taking \(P=ABE \), we complete the proof. □
Lemma 2.5
Suppose \(Z= [ z_{0},z_{1},\ldots , z_{M} ] ^{T}\). Then Ẑ is the operational matrix of product whenever
Proof
According to (7) and expanding the function \(\mathcal{C}_{i}^{*}(t)\mathcal{C}_{j}^{*}(t)\), \(i,j=0,1,\ldots ,M \), we have
where \(c_{m} \), \(m=0,1,\ldots ,i+j\), can be computed as
with
By considering \(Z= [ z_{0},z_{1},\ldots ,z_{M}] \) and (6), we have
where the elements of \(\widehat{Z}=[\widehat{z_{i,j}}]\), \(i,j=0,1,\ldots ,M \), are given by
□
Theorem 2.2
Let \(\varphi (t) \) be the SFKCPs vector given in (7), and let \(p-1<\upsilon (t)\leq p \). Then
where \(\Upsilon ^{\upsilon (t)}= A\Psi ^{\upsilon (t)} A^{-1}\) with
and
Proof
By employing \({{}^{C}D^{\upsilon (t)}_{t} } \) to both sides of (7), we get
Taking into account that \(p=\lceil \upsilon (t)\rceil \) and using (3), (14) becomes
where \(\Psi ^{\upsilon (t)}\) is given as (13). Therefore from (7), we get
with
□
3 Numerical scheme
The aim of this section is to propose a numerical scheme for solving problem (1)–(2). To do this, we first consider an approximate solution of equation (1) in terms of the SFKCPs as
By employing \({{}^{C}D^{\upsilon (t)}_{t} } \) to both sides of (15) and using (12), we have
Now we must approximate the Fredholm and Volterra parts of equation (1). To do this, the functions \(K_{1}\), \(K_{2} \), \(\phi _{1}\), and \(\phi _{2} \) are expanded using the SFKCPs as
From (9)–(11) and (17), we obtain
Substituting (15), (16), (18), and (19) into equation (1) yields
Taking (8) and (15) into account, we can rewrite the initial conditions (2) as follows:
On the other hand, by introducing the approximation \(z(t)\simeq Z^{T}\varphi (t)\) into the functions \(\phi _{1}\) and \(\phi _{1}\) given by (17), we get
To calculate the approximate solution, we put the collocation points \(\frac{r}{M+2} \) for \(r=1,\ldots , M+1-p \) into equation (20). By solving simultaneously the resulting system and system (21), we get an approximation of the solution using (15).
4 Convergence analysis
Here we consider the convergence of the approximate solution obtained by the proposed scheme in Sect. 3 to the analytical solution of problem (1)–(2).
Theorem 4.1
(See [35])
Let \(z(t)\in L^{2}_{w^{*}}(0,1) \) and suppose \(\vert z^{(3)}(t) \vert \leq \theta \) with positive constant θ. Suppose that the expansion of z in terms of the SFKCPs is given by (5). If \(E_{n}(t)=z(t)-z_{M}(t)=\sum_{i=M+1}^{\infty }z_{i} \mathcal{C}_{i}^{*}(t) \) is the universal error, then \(E_{n}(t) \) can be evaluated as
Theorem 4.2
Let \(z_{M}(t) \) be the approximate solution of problem (1)–(2) obtained by the proposed scheme in Sect. 3, let \(z(t)\) be its analytical solution, and \(R_{M}(t) \) be the residual error for the approximate solution. Also, suppose the Lipschitz conditions for the functions F, \(\phi _{1}\), and \(\phi _{2} \) with respect to the confirmed constants L, \(L_{1}\), and \(L_{2} \), respectively. Then, if \(z(t)\) satisfies the conditions of Theorem 4.1, then \(R_{M}(t) \) tends to zero as \(M\rightarrow \infty \).
Proof
By applying \({{}^{R L} I}_{t}^{\upsilon (t)} \) to both sides of equation (1), we can rewrite equation (1) as follows:
where
with
So \(z_{M}(t) \) satisfies the following equation:
where \(R_{M}(t) \) is the residual function given by
Then we have
Using Theorem 4.1, we have
On the other hand, since \(p-1<\upsilon (t)\leq p \), we have
Since F, \(\phi _{1}\), and \(\phi _{2} \) satisfy the Lipschitz conditions, we can write
where \(k_{1}=\max_{(t,\tau )\in (0,1)^{2}} \vert K_{1}(t, \tau ) \vert \) and \(k_{2}=\max_{(t,\tau )\in (0,1)^{2}} \vert K_{2}(t, \tau ) \vert \). Substituting (24)–(26) into (1) yields
Therefore it is clear that \(R_{M}(t) \) tends to zero as \(M\rightarrow \infty \). □
5 Numerical examples
Now we apply the proposed scheme to some examples. For solving these examples, we used the Mathematica software.
Example 5.1
Consider the following VO problem:
under the initial conditions
in which \(\Gamma (\cdot ,\cdot )\) is the incomplete gamma function. We have solved this problem by different values of M for \(\upsilon (t)=\sin ^{2}(t)+2\), \(\upsilon (t)=\frac{t}{2}+2\), and the analytical solution \(z(t)= e^{t} \). Figure 1 and Table 1 display the numerical results. As it can be seen from these results, the approximate solution obtained by the proposed scheme converges to the analytical one by increasing the number of basis functions.
Example 5.2
Consider the following VO problem [37]:
with
where \(t\in [0,1] \). By considering \(\upsilon (t)=t \) and carrying out the proposed scheme, the outputs obtained for this problem are depicted together with the analytical solution (\(z(t)=t^{\frac{19}{4}}+t^{ \frac{31}{5}} \)) in Fig. 2. From Fig. 2 it is clear that increasing the number of basis functions improves the accuracy. Furthermore, in Table 2, we have compared the outputs obtained by the proposed scheme with the method of [37] based on the Bernstein polynomials.
Example 5.3
Consider the following VO problem [38, 39]:
where
The analytical solution is \(z(t)=t^{2}+3t\). By considering \(\upsilon (t)=\sin (t),\frac{t}{2} \) and choosing \(M=2\), we get
which gives the analytical solution. As it is seen, the proposed scheme gives the analytical solution with \(M=2 \) (only three basis functions) compared to the methods introduced in [38–40]. Table 3 reports the maximum absolute errors (MAE) (\(E_{\infty }(M)\)) obtained in [38–40].
6 Conclusion
In this research, we have generalized a collocation method including the shifted fifth-kind Chebyshev polynomials to numerically solve variable order integro-differential equations in the Caputo sense. For finding approximate solutions of the considered equations, we have used the properties of the shifted fifth-kind Chebyshev polynomials. In addition, by applying the collocation points, we have changed the primary problem to solving a system of algebraic equations to get an approximate solution. Also, we have discussed the convergence of the numerical solution obtained by the proposed scheme. Eventually, the efficiency and suitability of the proposed scheme are displayed by solving some problems of variable order.
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Jafari, H., Nemati, S. & Ganji, R.M. Operational matrices based on the shifted fifth-kind Chebyshev polynomials for solving nonlinear variable order integro-differential equations. Adv Differ Equ 2021, 435 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-021-03588-2
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