Numerical Solutions Based on a Collocation Method Combined with Euler Polynomials for Linear Fractional Differential Equations with Delay

Abstract

Abstract In this study, a method combined with both Euler polynomials and the collocation method is proposed for solving linear fractional differential equations with delay. The proposed method yields an approximate series solution expressed in the truncated series form in which terms are constituted of unknown coefficients that are to be determined according to Euler polynomials. The matrix method developed for the linear fractional differential equations is improved to the case of having delay terms. Furthermore, while putting the effect of conditions into the algebraic system written in the augmented form in which the coefficients of Euler polynomials are unknowns, the condition matrix scans the rows one by one. Thus, by using our program written in Mathematica there can be obtained more than one semi-analytic solutions that approach to exact solutions. Some numerical examples are given to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.