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A new method to solve time-dependent intuitionistic fuzzy differential equations and its application to analyze the intuitionistic fuzzy reliability of industrial systems
To the best of our knowledge, there is no method in the literature for solving such differential equations in which all the parameters except independent variables are represented by intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. In this article, a new method is proposed for solving such nth-order time-dependent intuitionistic fuzzy linear differential equations. To show the application of the proposed method in real-life problems, the time-dependent intuitionistic fuzzy Kolmogorov’s differential equations, obtained by Markov model of condensate system, are solved by the proposed method, and the obtained solution is used to analyze the intuitionistic fuzzy reliability of condensate system.
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