A Comparative Study on Solution Methods for Fractional order Delay Differential Equations and its Applications

Abstract

Fractional calculus is one of the evolving fields in applied sciences. Delay differential equation of non-integer order plays a vital role in epidemiology, population growth, physiology economy, medicine, chemistry, control, and electrodynamics and many mathematical modeling problems Fractional Delay differential equations usually lacks analytic solutions and some of these equations can only be solved by some numerical methods. In this review article we present a comparative study on some standard numerical methods applied to solve linear fractional order differential equations with time delay. Fractional finite difference method (FFDM), Predictor-corrector method (PCM) with new and extended versions has been discussed in this article. All above mentioned methods use the Caputo type fractional differential operator to define fractional derivatives. Solution of a real-life problem formulated by FDDEs has been discussed under these methods. Results have been presented in tabular and graphical form to analyze the efficiency and scarcity of mentioned methods. These graphical and numerical comparisons are provided to illustrate and corroborate the similarity and differences between these methods.