Numerical Analysis of Time-Fractional Porous Media and Heat Transfer Equations Using a Semi-Analytical Approach

Abstract

In nature, symmetry is all around us. The symmetry framework represents integer partial differential equations and their fractional order in the sense of Caputo derivatives. This article suggests a semi-analytical approach based on Aboodh transform (AT) and the homotopy perturbation scheme (HPS) for achieving the approximate solution of time-fractional porous media and heat transfer equations. The AT converts the fractional problems into simple ones and obtains the recurrence relation without any discretization or assumption. This nonlinear recurrence relation can be decomposed via the use of the HPS to obtain the iterations in terms of series solutions. The initial conditions play an important role in determining the successive iterations and yields towards the exact solution. We provide some numerical applications to analyze the accuracy of this proposed scheme and show that the performance of our scheme has strong agreement with the exact results.