Efficient generalized Laguerre-spectral methods for solving multi-term fractional differential equations on the half line

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to provide an efficient numerical approach for the fractional differential equations (FDEs) on the half line with constant coefficients using a generalized Laguerre tau (GLT) method. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. We state and prove a new formula expressing explicitly the derivatives of generalized Laguerre polynomials of any degree and for any fractional order in terms of generalized Laguerre polynomials themselves. We develop also a direct solution technique for solving the linear multi-order FDEs with constant coefficients using a spectral tau method. The spatial approximation with its fractional-order derivatives described in the Caputo sense are based on generalized Laguerre polynomials $L_i^{(\alpha )}(x)$ with $x\in \Lambda =(\infty )$ and i denoting the polynomial degree.