Abstract
In present work, nonlinear fractional partial differential equations namely transport equation and Fokker-Planck equation involving local fractional differential operators, are investigated by means of the local fractional homotopy perturbation Sumudu transform method. The proposed method is a coupling of homotopy perturbation method with local fractional Sumudu transform and is used to describe the non-differentiable problems. Numerical simulation results are projected to show the efficiency of the proposed technique.
1 Introduction
Fractional calculus [1, 2] is playing a vital role in various fields, such as physics, electronics, robotics, bioengineering, anomalous transport and many others including fractal phenomena. Fractional differential equations (FDE) have a wide range of applications in modeling many problems such as the study of aerodynamic forces, electrochemistry, mathematical biology, signal and image processing, etc. The study of FDE have become a topic of interest for the researchers in recent years and several numerical techniques have been developed to find their analytical and approximate solutions as modified homotopy analysis transform method (MHATM) [3], Fractional Adams-Bashforth-Moulton method [4], improved Bernoulli sub-equation function method [5], fractional variational iteration method (FVIM) [6], Adomian decomposition method (ADM) [7] and many more [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19]. The transport equation [20] and Fokker-Planck equation [21] has been studied in past few years by using various analytical techniques. Moreover, Fokker-Planck equation of fractional order has also been investigated by homotopy perturbation method (HPM) [22], iterative Laplace transform method [23] etc. But, the classical fractional order calculus is not valid for differential equations on Cantor sets because of its nonlocal nature. So, local fractional calculus theory has been used to deal with such problems.
Recently, researchers have introduced local fractional derivative and calculus theory [24,25,26,27], which is used to elucidate the non-differentiable function defined on Cantor sets. The fractional differential equations involving local fractional differential operators befit to deal with phenomena that occurs in fractal space and time. The local fractional calculus theory has crucial applications in studying the numerous important models in fractal mathematics, such as heat conduction theory, transport problems in Cantorian space. In the present article, we study the one-dimensional local fractional nonlinear transport equation (LFNTE) and one-dimensional local fractional nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation (LFNFPE) defined on Cantor set given by equations (1) and (2) respectively.
with the given condition φ (x, 0) = f(x), where a and b are real constants, and
with the given condition φ (x, 0) = f(x), where a(x, φ) and b(x, φ) are parameters.
In [28], X. J. Yang et al. presented the local fractional variational iteration method (LFVIM) which is an extended version of VIM via local fractional operators and has employed this scheme to solve LFNTE and LFNFPE in fractal domain. The homotopy perturbation method (HPM), firstly proposed by Chinese mathematician J. H. He [29] is an analytical approximate solution method for linear and nonlinear differential equations without any discretization, transformation or perturbation parameters. The proposed local fractional homotopy perturbation Sumudu transform method (LFHPSTM) is an elegant compilation of local fractional Sumudu transform and HPM using He’s polynomials. In LFHPSTM only a few iterates yields a reasonably accurate solution.
2 Local fractional order calculus
Definition 2.1
Consider a function ψ(t) ∈ Cμ(σ, ϑ), while |ψ(t) – ψ(t0)| < εμ, 0 < μ ≤ 1, is valid, when ([24,25,26,27]) |t – t0| < δ, for ε, δ > 0 and ε ∈ R.
Definition 2.2
For 0 < μ < 1 and ψ(t) ∈ Cμ(σ, ϑ), the local fractional derivative of ψ(t) of order μ is defined ([24,25,26,27]) as follows:
where
Definition 2.3
Let 0 < μ < 1, ψ(t) ∈ Cμ(σ, ϑ) ΔSj = Sj+1–Sj, ΔS = max {ΔS1, ΔS2, ΔS3, … } and [Sj, Sj+1], j = 0, 1, … N – 1, S0 = σ, SN = ϑ, be partitions of the interval (σ, ϑ). The local fractional integral ([24,25,26,27]) of ψ(t) of order μ is defined by
From Eq. (3), we get the following results:
and
Definition 2.4
In fractal space, the well-known Mittag-Leffler function ([24,25,26,27]) is defined as
Definition 2.5
The local fractional Sumudu transform of ψ(t) of order μ ([24,25,26,27]) is
The inverse operator is defined in the following way
Theorem 2(a)
If LFSμ {ψ(t)} = Fμ(u) then [30] one has
And Eq. (4) gives us the following results.
If LFSμ {ψ(t)} = Fμ(u), we obtain
when n = 2, from (5), we obtain
Theorem 2(b)
If LFSμ {ψ(t)} = Fμ(u), then we have
3 Description of local fractional homotopy perturbation Sumudu transform method (LFHPSTM)
To illustrate the solution procedure of LFHPSTM, we take a general nonlinear local fractional partial differential equation of the following form:
where Ly and Ny are local fractional linear and nonlinear differential operators, respectively.
Taking the local fractional Sumudu transform on Eq. (6), we obtain
Now, using the inverse of local fractional Sumudu transform on Eq. (7), we have φ(χ, t) =
List of local fractional derivatives and integrals of some functions
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tμ is a cantor function | ||
Next, we apply the classical HPM
and the nonlinear term is decomposed as
for some He’s polynomial Hn(φ) that are given by
Substituting Eq. (9) and Eq. (10) in Eq. (8), we get
Combining the local fractional Sumudu transform and classical HPM using He’s polynomial, the above equation is obtained. Equating the coefficients of alike powers of p, we get the following iterates
Hence, the non-differentiable solution of Eq. (6) is given as
4 Numerical examples
In this section, LFNTE and LFNFPE are discussed in fractal domain and their non-differentiable solutions are presented.
Example 4.1
In the first model, we study the local fractional nonlinear transport equation in fractal dimensional space [31, 32]:
subject to the initial condition
where
Making use of the differential property of local fractional Sumudu operator on both sides of Eq. (13), we have
Now, applying inverse local fractional Sumudu transform on both sides of Eq. (15), we obtain
Applying homotopy perturbation method, we obtain
where Hn(φ) are He’s polynomials representing the nonlinear terms. Thus, He’s polynomials are given by
On evaluating, some components of He’s polynomials are given by
comparing the coefficients of like powers of p in Eq. (17), we have the following successive approximations
In this way, the remaining components of numerical solution can be obtained. Hence, the non-differentiable approximate solution of Eq. (13) is given as

Numerical simulation of first order approximation with non-differentiable terms when

Numerical simulation of second order approximation with non-differentiable terms when

Numerical simulation of third order approximation with non-differentiable terms when
Example 4.2
In the final model, we study the local fractional nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation in fractal domain as follows:
with the initial condition given by
where a (χ, φ) = φ (χ, t) and b (χ, φ) = φ (χ, t).
Making use of differential property of local fractional Sumudu operator on both sides of Eq. (20), we have
Now, applying inverse local fractional Sumudu transform on both sides of Eq. (22), we get
Applying homotopy perturbation method, we have
where Hn (φ) and
and
Some components of He’s polynomials are evaluated as
Equating the coefficients of like powers of p in Eq. (24), we obtain the following iterates of solution
In this way, the remaining components of numerical solution can be obtained. Hence, the closed-form solution of Eq. (20) is given as
and the corresponding graph is plotted in Figure 4 when

Numerical simulation of the solution in closed form with non-differentiable term when
5 Conclusion
In this paper, LFHPSTM has successfully been employed to obtain the non-differentiable solutions of LFNTE and LFNFPE arising in mathematical physics. The numerical solution for LFNTE is obtained with non-differentiable terms, whereas LFNFPE has the non-differentiable solution in closed-form. The proposed numerical technique is very simple, easily applicable and computationally effective for solving various local fractional differential equations emerging in numerous real-world phenomenon.
Acknowledgement
The authors are extremely thankful to the reviewer’s for carefully reading the paper and useful comments and suggestions which have helped to improve the paper.
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