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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics Volume 2008, Article ID 686512, 16 pages doi:10.1155/2008/686512 Research Article Series Solutions of Time-Fractional PDEs by Homotopy Analysis Method O. Abdulaziz, I. Hashim, and A. Saif Centre for Modelling and Data Analysis, School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi Selangor, Malaysia Correspondence should be addressed to I. Hashim, ishak h@ukm.my Received 12 August 2008; Accepted 30 October 2008 Recommended by Shijun Liao The homotopy analysis method HAM is applied to solve linear and nonlinear fractional partial differential equations fPDEs. The fractional derivatives are described by Caputo’s sense. Series solutions of the fPDEs are obtained. A convergence theorem for the series solution is also given. The test examples, which include a variable coefficient, inhomogeneous and hyperbolic-type equations, demonstrate the capability of HAM for nonlinear fPDEs. Copyright q 2008 O. Abdulaziz et al. 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. 1. Introduction Fractional calculus has been given considerable popularity and importance during the past three decades, due mainly to its applications in numerous fields of science and engineering. For example, phenomena in the areas of fluid flow, rheology, electrical networks, probability and statistics, control theory of dynamical systems, electrochemistry of corrosion, chemical physics, optics and signal processing, and so on can be successfully modelled by linear or nonlinear fractional differential equations fDEs 1–4. Finding accurate methods for solving nonlinear differential equatio