International Journal of Differential Equations
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 4275389, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4275389

Research Article

A Numerical Computation of a System of Linear and Nonlinear Time Dependent Partial Differential Equations Using Reduced Differential Transform Method

Brajesh Kumar Singh and Mahendra

Department of Applied Mathematics, School for Physical Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226025, India

Received 20 April 2016; Revised 18 September 2016; Accepted 4 October 2016

Academic Editor: Davood D. Ganji

Copyright © 2016 Brajesh Kumar Singh and Mahendra. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

This paper deals with an analytical solution of an initial value system of time dependent linear and nonlinear partial differential equations by implementing reduced differential transform (RDT) method. The effectiveness and the convergence of RDT method are tested by means of five test problems, which indicates the validity and great potential of the reduced differential transform method for solving system of partial differential equations.

1. Introduction

The reduced differential transform method has been successfully employed to solve various types of linear and nonlinear, homogeneous or nonhomogeneous, equations appearing in science and engineering. Partial differential equations have also been applied in modeling many physical engineering problems and differential equations in nonlinear dynamics [1–3]. Most of the partial differential equations cannot be solved exactly, and so, developing schemes for getting accurate and efficient numerical solution differential equations have been an active research area. Burgers’ equation [4], a system of nonlinear fractional differential equations [1], and nonlinear Klein–Gordon equation with a quadratic nonlinear term [2] have been solved using Adomian decomposition method. A system of nonlinear fractional partial differential equations has been solved using homotopy analysis method by Jafari and Seifi [3] and Bataineh et al. [5], using variational iteration method by Wazwaz [6]. In [7], Wang and Cheng adopted variational method and finite element approach to solve damped nonlinear Klein–Gordon equations.

The coupled Burgers equation has been solved by using various schemes; among them are variational iteration method [8], Adomian–Pade technique [9], fourth-order compact schemes [10], a composite numerical scheme [11], lattice Boltzmann method [12], finite element and finite difference method [13], two algorithms based on cubic spline function technique [14], a robust finite difference scheme [15], and modified extended cubic B-spline differential quadrature method [16]; while using modified cubic B-spline differential quadrature method Burgers’ and Burgers-Huxley equations have been solved in [17–19], respectively. The fractional models of Burgers equation have been solved in [19–22]. The space- and time-fractional coupled Burgers equations have been solved using generalized differential transform method [19] and homotopy perturbation method [21]. Reduced differential transform method is used to solve -dimensional Burgers’ equation [20]. Recently, Prakash et al. [22] adopted fractional variational iteration method to solve fractional coupled Burgers equations.

Keskin and Oturanç [23] have developed reduced differential transform method to solve partial differential equations of integer order [24] as well as fractional order. After Keskin and Oturanç, RDT method has been implemented for the numerical computation of various physical models of engineering and sciences [25–27].

The main goal of this paper is to provide an analytical solution of initial value system of time dependent partial differential equations obtained by employing RDT method developed by Keskin and Oturanç [23].

2. Reduced Differential Transform Method

The basic properties of the fractional reduced differential transform method are described in this section. Let be a function of two variables such that . By using the properties of the one-dimensional differential transform (DT) method can be written as

where is referred to as the spectrum of and is defined by

For more details on DT method, see [28] and the references therein.

Denote the lowercase as the original function while its fractional reduced transformed function is denoted by the uppercase .

Definition 1. If is analytic and continuously differentiable with respect to and , then RDT of is given by

The reduced inverse differential transform of is defined as follows:

Equations (3) and (4) together reduce to

The basic properties of RDT method are found in [1, 4] and can be deduced from (3) and (4), given in the following.

2.1. Some Basic Properties and Notation of RDT Method

In this section, the properties of RDT method as in [23–25] have been revisited to complete our study.

Property 1. If , then

Property 2. If , then

Property 3. If , then , where

Property 4. If , then

Property 5. If , then

Property 6. If , then

Property 7. If , then

Property 8. If , then

For details on RDT method we refer the readers to [23–25].

3. Results and Discussion

In this section, we give five test problems of linear and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) using reduced differential transform (RDT) method.

Example 2. Consider the initial value system of linear PDEs:

On using RDT method (8) reduces to a set of recurrence relations as follows:

On solving system (9), we get

Using inverse RDT method (4), we get

The same solution is obtained by using homotopy analysis method [3], variational iteration method [6], and homotopy perturbation method [21]. The solution behavior of is depicted in Figure 1.

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(b)

Figure 1: Behavior of (a) and (b) of initial value system (8) in .

Example 3. Consider the following initial value system of nonlinear PDEs:

On using RDT method (12) reduces to a set of recurrence relations as follows:

On solving system (13), we have

On using inverse RDT method (4), we get

This is the required exact solution of initial value system (12) of PDEs. The same solution is obtained by using homotopy perturbation method [21]. The solution behavior of , and at is depicted in Figures 2 and 3.

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(b)

Figure 2: Behavior of (a) and (b) of initial value system (12) in .

Figure 3: Behavior of of initial value system (12) in .

Example 4. Consider the following form of IVS of two-dimensional coupled viscous Burgers’ equation:

On using RDT method (16) reduces to a set of recurrence relations as follows:

On solving system (17), we get

On using inverse RDT method (4), we get

This is the required exact solution of the initial value system of coupled viscous Burgers’ equation (16). The same solution is obtained by homotopy perturbation method [21] and variational iteration method [22] for integer-order time derivatives. The physical behavior of is depicted in Figure 4.

Figure 4: The behavior of and of initial value system of coupled viscous Burgers’ equation (16) in at different time levels.

Example 5. Consider the following form of initial value system of two-dimensional coupled viscous Burgers’ equation:

On using RDT method (20) reduces to a set of recurrence relations as follows:

Solving the recurrence relation (21), we get

Using inverse RDT method, the approximate solution is given as

This is the required approximate solution of system (20). The approximate solution of system (20) is obtained by homotopy perturbation method [21] and variational iteration method [22] for integer-order time derivatives.

Example 6. Consider initial value system as follows:

Setting , , then the above system can be written as

On using RDT method (25) reduces to a recurrence relation as follows:

On solving the above relation, we get

The inverse RDT leads to

This is the desired approximate solution of the initial value system (24), which is the same as that obtained in [28] using DTM.

4. Concluding Remark

In this paper, reduced differential transform method has been implemented successfully to five test problems of the initial value systems of time dependent partial differential equations including two-dimensional coupled viscous Burgers’ equations. The obtained results agreed well with homotopy perturbation method [21], homotopy analysis method [3], variational iteration method [6, 22], and differential transform method [28]. Easiness and effectiveness are the strength of RDT method.

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this article.

Acknowledgments

Mahendra is very thankful to Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India, for the financial assistance to carry out the work.

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