A class of fractional differential equations via power non-local and non-singular kernels: existence, uniqueness and numerical approximations

Abstract

We prove a useful formula and new properties for the recently introduced power fractional calculus with non-local and non-singular kernels. In particular, we prove a new version of Gronwall's inequality involving the power fractional integral; and we establish existence and uniqueness results for nonlinear power fractional differential equations using fixed point techniques. Moreover, based on Lagrange polynomial interpolation, we develop a new explicit numerical method in order to approximate the solutions of a rich class of fractional differential equations. The approximation error of the proposed numerical scheme is analyzed. For illustrative purposes, we apply our method to a fractional differential equation for which the exact solution is computed, as well as to a nonlinear problem for which no exact solution is known. The numerical simulations show that the proposed method is very efficient, highly accurate and converges quickly.