An investigation on fractional Riccati differential equation with variable coefficient—revisited
摘要
This paper investigates the application of the spectral tau collocation method and the power series method to derive new spectral solutions of the fractional-order Riccati differential equation. We propose an approach that utilises the operational matrix of shifted Legendre polynomials, constructed based on the orthogonality property of polynomials and the Caputo fractional derivative, to efficiently address nonlinear fractional problems. By transforming the fractional differential equation (FDE) into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations and applying an initial guess within Newton’s iterative scheme, we determine the polynomial coefficients that yield the approximate solution. In addition, the power series method is employed to solve nonlinear FDE of order