Contents IJAM: Volume 31, No. 3 (2018)

In this paper, a modied Adomian decomposition method has been applied to approximate the solution of the fuzzy Volterra-Fredholm integral equations of the first and second Kind. That, a fuzzy Volterra-Fredholm integral equation has been converted to a system of Volterra-Fredholm integral equations in crisp case. We use MADM to find the approximate solution of this system and hence obtain an approximation for the fuzzy solution of the Fuzzy Volterra-Fredholm integral equation. A nonlinear evolution model is investigated. Moreover, we will prove the existence, uniqueness of the solution and convergence of the proposed method. Also, some numerical examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the proposed technique.

This article is concerned with the determination of temperature and thermal deflection in a thin hollow circular disk under an unsteady-state temperature field due to internal heat generation within it. Initially, the disk is kept at an arbitrary temperature F(r, z). For times t > 0 heat is generated within the thin hollow circular disk at a rate of g(r, z, t) Btu/hr ft³, while the boundary surfaces at (r = a), (r = b), (z = 0) and (z = h) are kept at temperatures f ₁(z, t) and f ₂(z, t), f ₃(r, t) and f ₄(r, t), respectively. The governing heat conduction equation has been solved by using a finite Hankel transform and the generalized finite Fourier transform. The results are obtained in series form in terms of Bessel's functions. As a special case, different metallic disks have been considered. The results for temperature change and the thermal deflection have been computed numerically and illustrated graphically.

The reliability of the homotopy analysis method (HAM) and reduction in the size of the computational work give this method a wider applicability. In this paper, HAM has been successfully applied to find the approximate solutions of Caputo fractional Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations. Also, the behavior of the solution can be formally determined by analytical approximation. Moreover, the study proves the existence and uniqueness results and the convergence of the solution. This paper concludes with an example to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the proposed technique.