Shooting Methods for Fractional Dirichlet-Type Boundary Value Problems of Order α ∈ (1,2) With Caputo Derivatives
Abstract
For the numerical solution of Dirichlet-type boundary value problems associated to nonlinear fractional differential equations of order α ∈ (1,2) that use Caputo derivatives, we suggest to employ shooting methods. In particular, we demonstrate that the so-called proportional secting technique for selecting the required initial values leads to numerical schemes that converge to high accuracy in a very small number of shooting iterations, and we provide an explanation of the analytical background for this favourable numerical behaviour.
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