1. Introduction
Partial differential equations are used for dynamic modeling of complex processes in various fields such as physics, chemistry, fluid and quantum mechanics, biology, and economics. They are predominantly applied to the so-called instantaneous phenomena whose behavior depends on their momentary state. A large part of the processes require the model to account for their behavior over a previous time interval. As a result, it is necessary to use partial integro-differential equations, as they show the cumulative behavior of the process. The different types of partial differential equations are related to the various types of differential and integral operators. One of them is the parabolic Volterra integro-differential equation. It has important physical applications in modeling dynamical systems, where one can explore the effects of the "memory" of the system. Such systems are developed, for example, in compression of viscoelastic media [
1], nuclear reactor dynamics [
2], expansion problems [
3], reaction diffusion problems [
4], and thermally conductive materials with functional memory [
5].
Over the last few years, we have noticed an incredible interest in fuzzy mathematics due to the many applications in various fields, especially physics, engineering, medicine, and economics [
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11]. This trend defines the need for studying fuzzy ordinary differential equations [
12,
13,
14], fuzzy partial differential equations [
15,
16,
17,
18,
19] and fuzzy integro-differential equations [
20,
21,
22] through publishing many articles related to these fuzzy equations.
Numerical solutions to the fuzzy parabolic Volterra integro-differential equation using the reproducing kernel Hilbert space method can be found in [
23]. Recently, in order to find the exact solution to linear fuzzy integro-differential equation, fuzzy integral transforms have been used. In [
24], using the fuzzy Laplace transform, the analytical solution of the fuzzy parabolic Volterra partial integro-differential equations under generalized Hukuhara partial differentiability was found. The fuzzy single and fuzzy double Sumudu transformation [
25,
26] as well as the fuzzy double Natural transformation [
27] have been applied to the fuzzy Volterra partial integro-differential equation.
The Yang transform is introduced by Yang [
28] and is applied to differential equation in the steady heat-transfer problem. Recently, Ullah et al. [
14] are proposed fuzzy single Yang transform for finding the solution of second order fuzzy differential equations of integer and fractional order.
The article’s main goal is to extend the fuzzy single Yang transform to the fuzzy double Yang transform which allows us to find the exact solution of a fuzzy parabolic Volterra integro-differential equation under generalized Hukuhara differentiability. More precisely, we look at the following fuzzy nonhomogeneous parabolic Volterra integro-differential equation with simmetric memory kernel
in the infinite domain
where
is any positive constant,
is the unknown fuzzy function,
is a given fuzzy function.
The remainder of this work is structured as follows: In
Section 2 we briefly introduce the basic notations, definitions, and theorems that will be used in the main part of the paper. In
Section 3 the single fuzzy Yang transform is defined and some basic properties are demonstrated for this transform. In
Section 4 a fuzzy double Yang transform for a fuzzy function is defined and some properties and theorems, several relations related to existence, gH-partial derivatives, and single convolution are presented. A fuzzy parabolic Volterra integro-differential equation with memory kernel is defined under generalized partial Hukuhara differentiability and a solution of this equation by a fuzzy double Yang transform method is investigated in
Section 5. Moreover, a numerical example is constructed to clarify the details and efficiency of the method in
Section 6. Conclusions are given in
Section 7.
2. Premilinaries
The following section consists of the necessary notations, definitions, and theorems which are useful in this research.
Let denote the set of fuzzy subsets of the real axis, i.e. that possesses the following properties:
- (i)
is upper semi-continuous on for all ;
- (ii)
is normal for all ;
- (iii)
is fuzzy convex for all ;
- (iv)
is compact, where cl denotes the closure of a subset.
Then we say that
is a space of fuzzy numbers. It is clear that any real number
a can be interpreted as a fuzzy number
and therefore
. The
r-level set of the fuzzy number
we denote
Then from
to
, it follows that for each
, the
r-level sets of fuzzy number
are nonempty closed intervals of the form
A triangular fuzzy number
is defined as an ordered triple
, where
has
r-cuts
Let
and
be two fuzzy numbers and
. Then the addition
and the scalar multiplication
are defined as having the level cuts
Denote .
Definition 2.1. [29] The Hausdorff distance between fuzzy numbers is given by
where and .
The metric space is complete separable and locally compact, and the following properties of the metric D are well known:
- (i)
for all ;
- (ii)
for all and ;
- (iii)
for all .
Definition 2.2. [29] Let . If there exists a fuzzy number λ such that , then λ is called the Hukuhara difference (H-difference) of μ and ν, and it is denoted by .
The
r-cuts of H-difference are
where
and
.
Clearly, ; if exists, it is unique.
Definition 2.3.
[29] Given , the generalized Hukuhara difference (gH-difference) is the fuzzy quantity , if it exists, such that
It is easy to show that and valid if and only if is a crisp number.
In terms of the
r-cuts, we have
and, if the H-difference exists, then
. The conditions for the existence of
are given in [
30].
Proposition 2.1.
[29] Let , then
Proposition 2.2. [30] Let . If exists, it is unique and has the following properties
- (i)
;
- (ii)
;
- (iii)
if exists then also does and ;
- (iv)
if and only if : furthermore, if and only if ;
- (v)
If exists then either or and if both equalities hold then is a crisp set.
2.1. The One-Variable Fuzzy Calculus
In this section, we present basic definitions and theorems for a fuzzy-valued function of one-variable which will be used throughout the paper.
A function is called a fuzzy-valued function. The r-level representation of this fuzzy function g given by , for all
Definition 2.4.
[31] We say that fuzzy-valued function is continuous at , if
provided that limits exists.
The function g is fuzzy continuous on if g is continuous in each .
Definition 2.5.
[30] Let and k be such that . Then the generalized Hukuhara derivative (gH-derivative) of a function at are called the fuzzy number wich defined as
if limit exists.
Theorem 2.1. [29] Let be gH-differentiable at . Then g is fuzzy continuous at .
The next theorem gives the expression of the fuzzy gH-derivative in terms of the derivatives of the endpoints of the level sets.
Theorem 2.2. [30] Let be a fuzzy-valued function with r-levels
and the real-valued functions and be differentiable at for all . Then the function is gH-differentiable at if and only if one of the following two cases holds:
- (i)
is increasing, is decreasing and ;
- (ii)
is decreasing, is increasing and .
Moreover, we have
for all .
If
and
are both differentiable and according to Theorem 2.2, then for the definition of gH-differentiability we distinguish two cases, corresponding to
and
of Equation (
2).
Definition 2.6. [30] Let and , with and both differentiable at . The fuzzy-valued function g is called:
- 1.
-gH-differentiable at if
- 2.
-gH-differentiable at if
Theorem 2.3.
[30] Let be gH-differentiable. Then is gH-differentiable and
Theorem 2.4.
[29] Let and be two differentiable functions. Then
Theorem 2.5. [29] Let be a fuzzy-valued function with r-levels
. Suppose that the functions and are Riemann integrable on for all . Then is improper fuzzy Riemann-integrable on . Moreover, we have
for all .
2.2. The Two-Variable Fuzzy Calculus
Let be a fuzzy-valued function of two variable with r-levels for all and .
Definition 2.7.
[32] Let the constants h and k be such that and . Then the first generalized Hukuhara partial derivative (gH-p-derivative) of a fuzzy-valued function at with respect to x and t are called the fuzzy numbers and with defined as
Definition 2.8. [32] Let be fuzzy-valued function and . Suppose that the functions and are partially differentiable in with respect to variable t. Also, we say that the function is:
- 1.
-gH-differentiable at with respect to t if
- 2.
-gH-differentiable at with respect to variable x if
Theorem 2.6.
[33] Let be a fuzzy-valued function. Assume that is convergent for each and as a function t is convergent on . Then
3. Fuzzy Yang Transform
In this section, we introduce the definition and basic properties of the fuzzy Yang transform (FYT) [
14].
Definition 3.1.
The fuzzy Yang integral transform for a fuzzy function is defined as
provided that the improper fuzzy integral exists and where t and β are transform variables.
Definition 3.2.
The inverse fuzzy Yang integral transform is given by
where the function is analytic for all β such that .
Theorem 3.1.
If is a continuous fuzzy function in every finite interval and is of exponential order , if it satisfies
Then, the fuzzy Yang transform of exists for all β such that .
Proof. Using the Definition 3.1, we obtain
Using the property of improper fuzzy integral, we get
Thus, the improper fuzzy integral converges for all and exists. □
The classical Yang transform is applied to some special functions in [
28].
- (i)
;
- (ii)
- (iii)
for all ;
- (iv)
for all ;
- (v)
for all ;
- (vi)
for all ;
- (vii)
for all .
We will give some of the basic properties of the fuzzy Yang transform.
Theorem 3.2.(Linearity) If and . Then
where such that or .
Proof. Using the Definition 3.1 and the property of improper fuzzy integral, we get
□
Remark 3.1.
Using the Definition 3.2, we can show that a linear transformation, i.e.
Theorem 3.3.(Change of Scale) If , then for some constant b it follows
Proof. Using the Definition 3.1, we have
Put
and
in above equation, we have
□
Theorem 3.4.(Duality) If is the fuzzy Yang transform and is the fuzzy Laplace transform of , then
Proof. Using the Definition 3.1, we have
and
□
Theorem 3.5. Let us consider
- (i)
be a continuous fuzzy function for all ;
- (ii)
be of exponential order i.e.
- (iii)
be continuous in every finite closed interval .
Then,
- 1.
;
- 2.
,
for all .
Proof. We prove case 1. Using definition of improper fuzzy integral and Theorem 2.2, we get
From condition
, we obtain
Hence, by Proposition 2.1 and Equation (
10), we have
Similarly, from Equation (
11) and Definition 3.1, we get
□
Corollary 3.1. Let be a fuzzy function of two variables. Then, we have
- (i)
;
- (ii)
.
4. Fuzzy Double Yang Transform
In the following section, we introduce the fuzzy double Yang transform (FDYT), that is, two fuzzy Yang transforms of order one. We give the fundamental properties and theorems related to the existence and fuzzy partial derivatives. Moreover, the fuzzy single convolution theorem is illustrated.
Definition 4.1.
The fuzzy double Yang transform of a fuzzy function is defined by
provided that the improper fuzzy double integral exists. Here, α and β are complex numbers.
Definition 4.2.
The inverse fuzzy double Yang transform is given by
where the function is analytic for all α and β such that and .
Theorem 4.1.
Let be a continuous fuzzy function in and be of exponential order , if it satisfies
Then, the fuzzy double Yang transform of the function exists for all α and β such that and .
Proof. Using Definition 4.1 and the property of improper fuzzy double integral, we obtain
Thus, the improper fuzzy double integral converges for all and and exist. □
Double Yang transform of some important functions.
- (i)
;
- (ii)
- (iii)
for all ;
- (iv)
for all ;
- (v)
for all .
Now, we present some properties for the FDYT.
Remark 4.1.
According to Theorem 3.2, we can proof that if and are fuzzy functions, then
where such that or .
Theorem 4.2.(Shifting) Let c and d be any constants and be a continuous fuzzy function of two variables x and t. Then,
Proof. Using Definition 4.1, we have
□
Theorem 4.3.(Heaviside Function) Let be a continuous fuzzy function and
where is the Heaviside function and . If , then
Proof. Using Definition 4.1, we find
We make a change of variable
Then
Hence
□
Definition 4.3.
[27] If and are fuzzy Riemann integrable functions defined for all , then fuzzy convolution of and respect to t is given by
and the symbol ∗ denotes the fuzzy convolution respect to t.
Theorem 4.4.(Convolution Theorem) Let and be continuous fuzzy functions. Then the fuzzy double Yang transform of the convolution of these two functions is as
Proof. Using the definition of fuzzy double Yang transform and convolution, we find
Let
. Then
□
Theorem 4.5. Let be a continuous fuzzy function and , then
- (i)
;
- (ii)
;
- (iii)
- (iv)
;
- (v)
;
- (vi)
Proof. Using Theorem 3.5, we find
In the same manner, we can obtain the case
.
The proof of case
is analogous to the proof of case
.
□
5. Method of Fuzzy Double Yang Transform
To illustrate the use of FDYT, we solve the fuzzy parabolic Voltera integro-differential equation with a memory kernel
. This equation is defined as
where
is any positive constant,
is the unknown fuzzy function,
is a given fuzzy function.
Assume initial conditions of
and boundary conditions of
First, we apply FDYT to (
16) as
Using convolution theorem, we have
The derivative properties of FDYT (Theorem 4.5) and the above equation yield
where
Next apply the fuzzy Yang transform to the initial and boundary conditions
and then put in (
19) as
Using Proposition 2.1, we have
Hence
where
Finally, take the inverse FDYT of (
20) as
6. Examples
Example 6.1.
Consider the following fuzzy parabolic Volterra integro-differential equation
with initial conditions
and boundary conditions
In this case
By substituting the values of the fuzzy functions , , and in Equations (20) and (21), we obtain
where
Hence
Taking inverse fuzzy double Yang transform we find the solution of the equation (22) - (24) is
7. Conclusions
In this research paper, we introduce a new fuzzy integral transformation called the fuzzy double Yang transform, which is defined with the help of the fuzzy unitary Yang transform. We find conditions for its existence and establish some of its basic properties. We proved theorems about partial derivatives and fuzzy unit convolution. Using these new results, we successfully obtained the exact solution of a fuzzy parabolic Volterra integro-differential equation with symmetric memory kernel. We constructed a numerical example to verify the application of the new method. As a result, we propose that this method is further expanded in future work, so that it can be applied to the solution of various nonlinear fuzzy partial integro-differential equations related to physical and engineering problems.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, A.G., S.C., M.V.; methodology, A.G., S.C., M.V; validation, A.G., S.C. M.V.,; formal analysis, A.G., S.C., M.V., Y.G.; writing–original draft preparation, A.G., S.C., M.V., Y.G.; writing–review and editing A.G., S.C., M.V., Y.G.; funding acquisition A.G., S.C., M.V., Y.G.
Funding
This study is financed by the European Union-Next Generation EU through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria, project DUECOS BG-RRP-2.004-0001-C01.
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Conflicts of Interest
The author declare no conflict of interest.
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