Research Article
Qualitative Analysis of Implicit Dirichlet Boundary Value
Problem for Caputo-Fabrizio Fractional Differential Equations
Rozi Gul,
1
Muhammad Sarwar ,
1
Kamal Shah,
1
Thabet Abdeljawad ,
2,3,4
and Fahd Jarad
5
1
Department of Mathematics, University of Malakand, Chakdara Dir(L), Pakistan
2
Department of Mathematics and General Sciences, Prince Sultan University, P.O. Box 66833, Riyadh 11586, Saudi Arabia
3
Department of Medical Research, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan
4
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
5
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Cankaya University, Ankara 06790, Turkey
Correspondence should be addressed to Muhammad Sarwar; sarwarswati@gmail.com
and Thabet Abdeljawad; tabdeljawad@psu.edu.sa
Received 16 June 2020; Accepted 23 September 2020; Published 23 November 2020
Academic Editor: Adrian Petrusel
Copyright © 2020 Rozi Gul et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
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This article studies a class of implicit fractional differential equations involving a Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivative under
Dirichlet boundary conditions (DBCs). Using classical fixed-point theory techniques due to Banch’s and Krasnoselskii, a
qualitative analysis of the concerned problem for the existence of solutions is established. Furthermore, some results about the
stability of the Ulam type are also studied for the proposed problem. Some pertinent examples are given to justify the results.
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
The concerned area of fractional order differential equations
(FODEs) have many concentrations in real-world problems
and have paid close attention to numerous researchers in
the past few decades [1–5]. The mentioned area has been
studied from several aspects, such as the existence and
uniqueness of solutions via using the classical fixed-point
theory, the numerical analysis, the optimization theory, and
also the theory of stability corresponding to various frac-
tional differential operators like Caputo, Hamdard, and
Riemann-Liouville (we refer few as [6–9]). In the aforemen-
tioned operators, there exists a singular kernel. Therefore,
recently some authors introduced some new types of frac-
tional derivative operators in which they have replaced a sin-
gular kernel by a nonsingular kernel. The nonsingular kernel
derivative has been proved as a good tool to model real-world
problems in different fields of science and engineering [10,
11]. In fractional, it is called nonsingular exponential type
or Caputo-Fabrizio fractional differential (CFFD) operator.
The CFFD operator introduced two researchers, Caputo
and Fabrizio for the first time in 2015 [12]. They replaced
the singular kernel in the usual Caputo and Riemann-
Liouville derivative by an exponential nonsingular kernel.
The new operator of this type was found to be more practical
than the usual Caputo and Riemann-Liouville fractional
differential operators in some problems (see some detailed
references such as [13–15]). Recently, many researchers have
studied the existence and uniqueness of the solutions at the
initial value problems for FODEs under the said operator.
But the investigation has been limited to initial value prob-
lems only. On the other hand, boundary value problems have
significant applications in engineering and other physical sci-
ences during modeling numerous phenomena (we refer to
see [16–19]). Furthermore, during optimization and numer-
ical analysis of the mentioned problems, researchers need
stable results from theoretical as well as practical sides. A sta-
ble result may lead us to a stable process. Therefore, the
stability theory has also got proper attention during the last
many decades. It is well known fact that stability analysis
plays an important role. Various stability concepts such as
exponential stability, Mittag-Lefler stability and Hayers-
Ulam’s stability have been adopted in literature to study the
stability of different systems of FODEs. The analysis of
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Journal of Function Spaces
Volume 2020, Article ID 4714032, 9 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/4714032