A powerful analytical approach, namely the fractional residual power series method (FRPS), is applied successfully in this work to solving a class of fractional stiff systems. The methodology of the FRPS method gets a Maclaurin expansion of the solution in rapidly convergent form and apparent sequences based on the Caputo sense without any restriction hypothesis. This approach is tested on a fractional stiff system with nonlinearity ranging. Meanwhile, stability and convergence study are presented in the domain of interest. Illustrative examples justify that the proposed method is analytically effective and convenient, and it can be implemented in a large number of engineering problems. A numerical comparison for the experimental data with another well-known method, the reproducing kernel method, is given. The graphical consequences illuminate the simplicity and reliability of the FRPS method in the determination of the RPS solutions consistently.

The primary motivation of this paper is to extend the application of the reproducing-kernel method (RKM) and the residual power series method (RPSM) to conduct a numerical investigation for a class of boundary value problems of fractional order 2α, 0 < α ≤ 1, concerned with obstacle, contact and unilateral problems. The RKM involves a variety of uses for emerging mathematical problems in the sciences, both for integer and non-integer (arbitrary) orders. The RPSM is combining the generalized Taylor series formula with the residual error functions. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The representation of the analytical solution for the generalized fractional obstacle system is given by RKM with accurately computable structures in reproducing-kernel spaces. While the methodology of RPSM is based on the construction of a fractional power series expansion in rapidly convergent form and apparent sequences of solution without any restriction hypotheses. The recurrence form of the approximate function is selected by a well-posed truncated series that is proved to converge uniformly to the analytical solution. A comparative study was conducted between the obtained results by the RKM, RPSM and exact solution at different values of α. The numerical results confirm both the obtained theoretical predictions and the efficiency of the proposed methods to obtain the approximate solutions.

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This article describes an efficient algorithm based on residual power series to approximate the solution of a class of partial differential equations of time-fractional Fokker–Planck model. The fractional derivative is assumed in the Caputo sense. The proposed algorithm gives the solution in a form of rapidly convergent fractional power series with easily computable coefficients. It does not require linearization, discretization, or small perturbation. To test simplicity, potentiality, and practical usefulness of the proposed algorithm, illustrative examples are provided. The approximate solutions of time-fractional Fokker–Planck equations are obtained by the residual power series method are compared with those obtained by other existing methods. The present results and graphics reveal the ability of residual power series method to deal with a wide range of partial fractional differential equations emerging in the modeling of physical phenomena of science and engineering.

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