A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF FRACTIONAL-ORDER PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Abstract

In the present paper, the optimal auxiliary function method (OAFM) has been extended for the first time to fractional-order partial differential equations (FPDEs) with convergence analysis. To find the accuracy of the OAFM, we consider the fractional-order KDV-Burger and fifth-order Sawada–Kotera equations as a test example. The proposed technique has auxiliary functions and convergence control parameters, which accelerate the convergence of the method. The other advantage of this method is that there is no need for a small or large parameter assumption, and it gives an approximate solution after only one iteration. Further, the obtained results have been compared with the exact solution through different graphs and tables, which shows that the proposed method is very effective and easy to implement for different FPDEs.