ISRN Applied Mathematics

Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 518361, 10 pages

doi:10.5402/2012/518361

Research Article

Extension of Zhou's Method to Neutral Functional-Differential Equation with Proportional Delays

Sabir Widatalla1,2

¹Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

²Department of Mathematics, Sinnar University, Singa 107, Sudan

Received 30 January 2012; Accepted 19 February 2012

Academic Editors: C.-H. Lien and S. Prudhomme

Copyright © 2012 Sabir Widatalla. 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.

The differential transform method (DTM) is a reliable method applied by providing new theorems to develop exact and approximate solutions of neutral functional-differential equation (NFDE) with proportional delays. The results obtained with the proposed methods are in good agreement with one obtained by other methods. The advantages of this technique are illustrated. It is easy to see that the DTM is very accurate and easy to implement in finding analytical solutions of wide classes of linear and nonlinear NFDEs.

1. Introduction

The neutral functional-differential equation (NFDE) is

under the conditions

where are analytical functions; and . A classical case [1]

where is positive. Another interesting case [2] is

where . Both cases are playing an interesting role in many applications (see [1, 2] and references therein). In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the numerical treatment of NFDE, some of which are the Adams method [3], continuous Runge-Kutta methods [4], segmented Tau approximation [5], Homotopy perturbation method [6], one-leg -methods [7, 8], and variational iteration method [9].

In this paper we consider the following neutral functional-differential equations with proportional delays.

Problem 1. Consider

Problem 2. Consider

where are analytical functions; and are real or complex constants; .

The basic motivation of this work is to extend the differential transform method (DTM) by presenting and proving new theorems to create the exact or approximate solutions to a high degree of accuracy to the Problems 1 and 2. The DTM is a numerical-analytical technique that was first proposed by Zhou (1986) [10], who solved problems in electric circuit analysis. Since then, DTM was successfully applied for a large variety problems. For example, differential-difference equations [11], Volterra integral equation with separable kernels [12], MHD boundary-layer equations [13], linear and nonlinear systems of partial differential equations [14], and nonlinear oscillators with fractional nonlinearities [15]. To the best of our knowledge differential transform method has not be used by any researcher before to solve NFDE. By this method it is possible to obtain highly accurate results when compared with existing results from variational iteration method [9] and homotopy perturbation method [6].

2. Basic Idea of Differential Transform Method

The differential transform of the th derivative of a function is defined as follows:

The original and transformed functions are denoted throughout this paper by small and capital letters, respectively. The differential inverse transform of is defined as

And from (2.1) and (2.2):

which is actually the Taylor series expansion of about the point .

The fundamental mathematical operations performed by one-dimensional differential transform can be obtained from (1.5) and (1.6) in Table 1 (also, see [10]).

Table 1: Fundamental operations of differential transformation.

Original function
Transformed function

3. Main Results

In the following theorems, we find the differential transformations of given functions. These results are very useful in our approach for solving NFDEs.

Theorem 3.1. Suppose that , and are the differential transformations of the functions , respectively, and and , for :

(I)if , then , (II)if , then , (III)if , then

(IV)if , then

(V)if , then

Proof. (I), (II) The proof follows immediately by substituting into (2.1).

(III) By using the definition of DTM (2.1), we have

and from (II), we have

By utilizing this value, we get

(IV) By using the definition of DTM (2.1), we have

then from (II), we have

By utilizing these values

(V) Let the differential transform of at for be , then by using operations of differential transformation given in Table 1, we have

and from (II), we have

Substituting those values into (3.10), we obtain (3.3).

4. Illustrative Examples

In this part, we will apply the DTM to solve NFDE with proportional delays.

The numerical solutions of Examples 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5 have been calculated by variational iteration method [9] and homotopy perturbation method [6], which did not yield the exact solutions. However, applying DTM gives the exact solutions of those examples, as we will show later.

Example 4.1 (see [6, 9]). Consider the following first-order NFDE with proportional delay:

Taking the differential transform of (4.1) as given in (2.1), we get

which can be rewritten as follows:

The differential transform of the initial condition of at , is , form (4.3) for , we can get

substituting these values into (2.2), to get

The closed form of the above solution, when is , which is the exact solution. In Table 2 the absolute errors of DTM for , VIM [9] with eight terms and HPM [6] with eight terms (Table 3) are compared.

Table 2: Comparison of the absolute errors for Example 4.1.

VIM [9]
HPM [6]
DTM

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1.0

Table 3: Comparison of the absolute errors for Example 4.2.

VIM [9]
HPM [6]
DTM

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1.0

Example 4.2 (see [6, 9]). Consider the first-order NFDE with proportional delay

Let The differential transforms of , , and at be , and , respectively:

We can obtain the differential transform of (4.6) as

At , the initial condition transformed to , so from (4.8), we have

Substituting these values into (2.2), we get

The closed form of the above solution, when , is , which is the exact solution. In Table 2 we compare the absolute errors of DTM for , VIM [9] with eight terms, and HPM [6] with eight terms.

Example 4.3 (see[6, 9]). Consider the following second-order NFDE with proportional delay:

The differential transform for (4.11) is found as

form the initial condition we can get and . Form (4.12), we get

Then, by using (2.2), , which is the exact solution.

Example 4.4 (see [6, 9]). Consider the second-order NFDE with proportional delay:

The differential transform for (4.14) at is given by

and can be rewritten as

Form the initial condition we can get , and form (4.16), we get

Then, by using (2.2), , which is the exact solution.

Example 4.5 (see [6, 9]). Consider the following third-order NFDE with proportional delays:

The differential transform of (4.18) can be written as

Form the initial condition we can get , so from the (4.19), we get

Substituting (4.20) in (2.2) gives , which is the exact solution.

5. Conclusion

In this study, we extended DTM to the solution of NFDE with proportional delays. New theorems are presented with their proofs. All examples results show that the DTM is more effective than VIM and HPM for solving NFDE with proportional delays. We believe that the ease of implementation and efficiency of the DTM gives it much wider applicability.

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