Modelling and Simulation in Engineering

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 746351, 6 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/746351

Research Article

The Telegraph Equation and Its Solution by Reduced Differential Transform Method

Vineet K. Srivastava,¹ Mukesh K. Awasthi,² R. K. Chaurasia,³ and M. Tamsir⁴

¹ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bangalore 560058, India

²Department of Mathematics, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India

³The ICFAI University, Jaipur 302031, India

⁴Department of Mathematics, Graphic Era University, Dehradun 248002, India

Received 18 May 2013; Revised 8 July 2013; Accepted 7 August 2013

Academic Editor: Ahmed Rachid

Copyright © 2013 Vineet K. Srivastava et al. 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.

One-dimensional second-order hyperbolic telegraph equation was formulated using Ohm’s law and solved by a recent and reliable semianalytic method, namely, the reduced differential transform method (RDTM). Using this method, it is possible to find the exact solution or a closed approximate solution of a differential equation. Three numerical examples have been carried out in order to check the effectiveness, the accuracy, and convergence of the method. The RDTM is a powerful mathematical technique for solving wide range of problems arising in science and engineering fields.

1. Introduction

In this modern era communication system plays a key role in the worldwide society. High frequency communication systems continue to benefit from significant industrial attention, triggered by a host of radio frequency (RF) and microwave communication (MW) systems. These systems use the transmission media for transferring the information carrying signal from one point to another point. This transmission media can be categorized into two groups, namely, guided and unguided. In guided medium the signal is transferred through the coaxial cable or transmission line. These guided media are capable of transporting the high frequency voltage and current waves. While in unguided media electromagnetic waves carry the signal over part of or the entire communication path through RF and MW channels. These electromagnetic waves are transmitted and received through antenna. In guided transmission media, specifically cable transmission medium is investigated to address the problem of efficient telegraphic transmission. A cable transmission medium can be classified as a guided transmission medium and represents a physical system that directly propagates the information between two or more locations. In order to optimize the guided communication system it is necessary to determine or project power and signal losses in the system, because all the systems have such losses. To determine these losses and eventually ensure a maximum output, it is necessary to formulate some kind of equation with which to calculate these losses.

In this paper a mathematical derivation for the telegraph equation in terms of voltage and current for a section of a transmission line has been formulated and the obtained mathematical equation is solved by a very recent approximate analytical method, namely, the reduced differential transform method (RDTM).

Let us consider an infinitesimal piece of telegraph cable wire as an electrical circuit shown in Figure 1. Further assume that the cable is imperfectly insulated so that there are both capacitance and current leakage to ground.

Figure 1: Schematic diagram of telegraphic transmission line with leakage.

Suppose is the distance from sending end of the cable; is the voltage at any point and any time, on the cable; is the current at any point and any time, on the cable; denotes the resistance of the cable; denotes the capacitance to the ground; denotes the inductance of the cable; denotes the conductance to the ground.

Then by Ohm’s law, the voltage across the resistor is given by

Further, the voltage drop across the inductor is given as

The voltage drop across the capacitor is given by

The voltage at terminal B is equal to the voltage at terminal A, minus the drop in voltage along the element AB, so if (1), (2), and (3) are combined together, then we have

Let ,  and differentiating (4) partially with respect to , we have

Similarly, the current at terminal B is equal to the current at terminal A minus the current through leakage to the ground, so that we get

The current through the capacitor is given as

Differentiating (4) with respect to and (7) with respect to   and eliminating the derivatives of  , we have [1]

Similarly, we have

where

Equations (8) and (9) are known as one-dimensional hyperbolic second-order telegraph equations.

2. Reduced Differential Transform Method (RDTM)

In this section, we introduce the basic definitions of the reduced differential transformations.

Consider a function of two variables   and assume that it can be represented as a product of two single-variable functions; that is,  . On the basis of the properties of the one-dimensional differential transformation, the function   can be represented as [2]

where   is called the spectrum of .

Let   denote the reduced differential transform operator and the inverse reduced differential transform operator. The basic definition and operation of the RDTM are introduced below.

Definition 1. If   is analytic and continuously differentiable with respect to space variable and time variable in the domain of interest, then the spectrum function [3–5]

is the reduced transformed function of  .

In this paper, (lowercase)   represents the original function while (uppercase)   stands for the reduced transformed function. The differential inverse reduced transform of   is defined as [3–5]

Combining (12) and (13), we get

From (14), it can be seen that the concept of the reduced differential transform is derived from the power series expansion of the function.

Definition 2. If  ,  , and the convolution   denotes the reduced differential transform version of the multiplication, then the fundamental operations of the reduced differential transform are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Fundamental operations of the reduced differential transform method.

Original function
Reduced differential transformed function

3. Computational Illustrations

In this section, we describe the method explained in Section 2 taking three examples of both linear and nonlinear telegraph equations to validate the efficiency and reliability of the RDTM.

Example 1. Consider the linear telegraph equation

subject to the initial conditions

Applying the RDTM to (15), we obtain the following recurrence relation:

Applying the RDTM to the initial conditions (16), we have

From (18) into (17), we get the following   values successively:

Using the differential inverse reduced transform of , we get

The solution (20), in closed form, is given as

Example 2. Consider the linear telegraph equation

with the initial conditions

Operating the RDTM to (23), we obtain the recurrence equation

Applying the RDTM to the initial conditions (24), we get

Applying (25) to (24) we get the following   values successively:

Using the differential inverse reduced transform of , we get

The exact solution, in closed form, is given as

Example 3. Consider the following nonlinear telegraph equation:

under the initial conditions

Applying the RDTM technique to (29), we obtain the following iterative formula:

Applying the RDTM to the initial conditions (30), we get

Using (32) in (31), we get the following   values successively:

Using the differential inverse reduced transform of , we get

The solution (34), in closed form, is given as

Here, we have also presented the numerical results through various graphs. The variation of voltage   with distance at a particular time   has been drawn in Figure 2 while the voltage with time at a particular distance is shown in Figure 3 for Example 1. We notice that the voltage grows exponentially with distance at any instant of time while at a particular distance, there is an exponential decay in . It may also be seen from (21) that if we take as a constant, while at constant distance   will be constant multiple of . The three-dimensional variation of the solution versus and   is depicted in Figure 4.

Figure 2: Plot of   with respect to  ,   at   for Examples 1 and 3.

Figure 3: Plot of   with respect to ,    at for Examples 1 and 3.

Figure 4: Depiction of solution   in the domain   and for Examples 1 and 3.

Figure 5 shows that the voltage   has been drawn at a particular time   for Example 2. It is observed that the voltage    increases exponentially if is constant. Figure 6 shows that at a particular distance  , there is an exponential decrease in the voltage    for Example 2. The same thing is observed from the analytical solution (28). Figure 7 depicts the three-dimensional variation of versus and  . The analytical expression for Example 3 is the same as the one obtained for Example 1 and therefore, the numerical results will also be the same.

Figure 5: Plot of   with respect to , at for Example 2.

Figure 6: Plot of   with respect to , at for Example 2.

Figure 7: Depiction of solution in the domain   and for Example 2.

4. Conclusions

In this work, the reduced differential transform method has been implemented for one-dimensional second-order hyperbolic linear and nonlinear telegraph equations. The method is applied in a direct way without using linearization, transformation, discretization, or restrictive assumptions. The results show that the introduced technique is highly accurate, rapidly converge, and very easy to apply in the various engineering problems.

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