Research Article
Natural Transform along with HPM Technique for Solving
Fractional ADE
N. Pareek ,
1
A. Gupta ,
2
G. Agarwal ,
3
and D. L. Suthar
4
1
Department of Mathematics, Bhagat Singh Govt. P.G. College, Jaora, India
2
Department of Mathematics, Govt. M.V.M, Bhopal, India
3
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
4
Department of Mathematics, Wollo University, P.O. Box: 1145, Dessie, Ethiopia
Correspondence should be addressed to D. L. Suthar; dlsuthar@gmail.com
Received 16 April 2021; Accepted 8 July 2021; Published 28 July 2021
Academic Editor: Younes Menni
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The authors of this paper solve the fractional space-time advection-dispersion equation (ADE). In the advection-dispersion
process, the solute movement being nonlocal in nature and the velocity of fluid flow being nonuniform, it leads to form a
heterogeneous system which approaches to model the same by means of a fractional ADE which generalizes the classical ADE,
where the time derivative is substituted through the Caputo fractional derivative. For the study of such fractional models,
various numerical techniques are used by the researchers but the nonlocality of the fractional derivative causes high
computational expenses and complex calculations so the challenge is to use an efficient method which involves less computation
and high accuracy in solving such models numerically. Here, in order to get the FADE solved in the form of convergent infinite
series, a novel method NHPM (natural homotopy perturbation method) is applied which couples Natural transform along with
the homotopy perturbation method. The homotopy peturbation method has been applied in mathematical physics to solve
many initial value problems expressed in the form of PDEs. Also, the HPM has an advantage over the other methods that it
does not require any discretization of the domains, is independent of any physical parameters, and only uses an embedding
parameter p ∈ ½0, 1. The HPM combined with the Natural transform leads to rapidly convergent series solutions with less
computation. The efficacy of the used method is shown by working out some examples for time-fractional ADE with various
initial conditions using the NHPM. The Mittag-Leffler function is used to solve the fractional space-time advection-dispersion
problem, and the impact of changing the fractional parameter α on the solute concentration is shown for all the cases.
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Fractional calculus generalizes the integration and differenti-
ation of integer order to arbitrary order that is being studied
for the past 300 years. The growing interest of researchers in
this field has led to solving the real-world issues in type of
fractional differential equations due to their nonlocal behav-
ior, and these equations are well suited to describe various
phenomena in the field of engineering and science. Also,
fractional derivatives are capable to model various processes
mathematically which exhibit the memory and hereditary
properties [1–5].
The ADE arises in the study of transport of solute or
Brownian motion of particles in a fluid occurring due to the
simultaneous occurrence of advection and particle disper-
sion. Fractional advection-dispersion equation describes the
phenomena of anomalous diffusion of the particles in the
transport process in a better way; as in anomalous diffusion,
the solute transport is quicker or speedier than time’s
inferred square root given by Baeumer et al. [6]. The equation
is used to study groundwater pollution, pollution of the
atmosphere produced by smoke or dust, the spread of chem-
ical solutes and contaminant discharges, etc. [7]. Hence,
FADE has attracted the attention of many researchers.
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Advances in Mathematical Physics
Volume 2021, Article ID 9915183, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9915183