Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 737481, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/737481
Research Article

The Use of Sumudu Transform for Solving Certain Nonlinear Fractional Heat-Like Equations

Abdon Atangana1 and Adem Kılıçman2

1Institute for Groundwater Studies, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, 9300 Bloemfontein, South Africa
2Department of Mathematics and Institute for Mathematical Research, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Received 4 March 2013; Accepted 16 April 2013

Academic Editor: Mustafa Bayram

Copyright © 2013 Abdon Atangana and Adem Kılıçman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We make use of the properties of the Sumudu transform to solve nonlinear fractional partial differential equations describing heat-like equation with variable coefficients. The method, namely, homotopy perturbation Sumudu transform method, is the combination of the Sumudu transform and the HPM using He’s polynomials. This method is very powerful, and professional techniques for solving different kinds of linear and nonlinear fractional differential equations arising in different fields of science and engineering.