Approximating solutions to fractional-order Bagley-Torvik equation via generalized Bessel polynomial on large domains (Q6044835)

The authors develop an effective matrix method based upon generalized Bessel polynomials to find an approximate solution of fractional-order Bagley-Torvik differential equations over a long time domain. Representing all unknowns in the matrix forms and with the help of collocation points, the original equations lead to an algebraic system of linear equations. The error and convergence results on the spectral Bessel solutions are investigated. In particular, a fast algorithm with linear complexity for computing the \(q\)-th order fractional derivative of the basis functions in the vectorized form is presented. Numerical experiments are presented to show the efficiency of the approach suggested by the authors.