Construction of Analytical Solutions to Fractional Differential Equations Using Homotopy Analysis Method.docVIP

IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics, 40:2, IJAM_40_2_01 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Construction of Analytical Solutions to Fractional Differential Equations Using Homotopy Analysis Method 1 3 , Zaid Odibat 2* , Shaher Momani , Ahmad Alawneh 4 Ahmad El-Ajou ? calculus. Most nonlinear fractional equations do not have exact analytic solutions, so approximation and numerical techniques must be used. The Adomain decomposition method (ADM) [9-14], the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) [15-25], the variational iteration method (VIM) [26-28] and other methods have been used to provide analytical approximation to linear and nonlinear problems. However, the convergence region of the corresponding results is rather small as shown in [9-28]. The homotopy analysis method (HAM) is proposed first by Liao [29-33] for solving linear and nonlinear differential and integral equations. Different from perturbation techniques; the HAM doesnt depend upon any small or large parameter. This method has been successfully applied to solve many types of nonlinear differential equations, such as projectile motion with the quadratic resistance law [34], Klein-Gordon equation [35], solitary waves with discontinuity [36], the generalized Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV equation [37], heat radiation equations [38], MHD flows of an Oldroyd 8-constant fluid [39], Vakhnenko equation [40], unsteady boundary-layer flows [41]. Recently, Song and Zhang [42] used the HAM to solve fractional KdV-Burgers-Kuramoto equation, Cang and his co-authors [43] constructed a series solution of non-linear Riccati differential equations with fractional order using HAM. They proved that the Adomian decomposition method is a special case of HAM, and we can adjust and c