In this paper, we develop a framework to obtain approximate numerical solutions to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) involving fractional order derivatives using Legendre wavelets approximations. The continues Legendre wavelets constructed on [0, 1] are utilized as a basis in collocation method. Illustrative examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the technique.

1 King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 2 Beni-Suef University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Beni-Suef, Egypt 3 King Abdulaziz University, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 4 Cankaya University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Comput...

A method is presented for direct trajectory optimization and costate estimation of finite-horizon and infinite-horizon optimal control problems using global collocation at Legendre-Gauss-Radau (LGR) points. A key feature of the method is that it provides an accurate way to map the KKT multipliers of the nonlinear programming problem to the costates of the optimal control problem. More precisely...

The Falkner-Skan equation arises in the study of laminar boundary layers exhibiting similarity. The MHD systems are used effectively in many applications including power generators, pumps, accelerators, electrostatic filters, droplet filters, the design of heat exchangers, the cooling of reactors, etc. For the MHD Falkner-Skan equation, we have developed a new numerical technique transforming t...

In this paper, we apply the Legendre spectral-collocation method to obtain approximate solutions of nonlinear multiorder fractional differential equations (M-FDEs). The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The study is conducted through illustrative example to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the presented method. The results reveal that the proposed method is ve...

Article history: Received 15 December 2010 Received in revised form 21 April 2011 Accepted 24 April 2011 Available online 4 May 2011

This paper is devoted to implementing the Legendre spectral collocation method to introduce numerical solutions of a certain class of fractional variational problems (FVPs). The properties of the Legendre polynomials and Rayleigh-Ritz method are used to reduce the FVPs to the solution of system of algebraic equations. Also, we study the convergence analysis. The obtained numerical results show ...

We introduce a new and efficient Chebyshev-Legendre Galerkin method for elliptic problems. The new method is based on a Legendre-Galerkin formulation, but only the Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto points are used in the computation. Hence, it enjoys advantages of both the LegendreGalerkin and Chebyshev-Galerkin methods.

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the study of singular and perturbed systems. In this paper we propose a collocation method for solving singularly perturbed Volterra integro-differential and Volterra integral equations. The method is based upon radial basis functions, using zeros of the shifted Legendre polynomial as the collocation points. The results of numerical experiments...

This work presents a method to solve boundary value problems based on polynomial approximations and the application of the methods of moments and the Galerkin method. The weighted average residuals are evaluated by improved Gauss-Radau and Gauss-Lobatto quadratures, capable to exactly compute integrals of polynomials of degree 2n and 2n + 2 (where n is the number of internal quadrature points),...