Spectrally accurate approximate solutions and convergence analysis of fractional Burgers' equation

In this paper, a new numerical technique implements on the time-space pseudospectral method to approximate the numerical solutions of nonlinear time- and space-fractional coupled Burgers' equation. This technique is based on orthogonal Chebyshev polynomial function and discretizes using Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobbato (CGL) points. Caputo-Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative formula is used to illustrate the fractional derivatives matrix at CGL points. Using the derivatives matrices, the given problem is reduced to a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. These equations can be solved using Newton-Raphson method. Two model examples of time- and space-fractional coupled Burgers' equation are tested for a set of fractional space and time derivative order. The figures and tables show the significant features, effectiveness, and good accuracy of the proposed method.