Application of the Multistage Telescoping Decomposition Method for Solving Fractional Logistic Equations
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Classical logistic equations are widely used in population dynamics but cannot represent the memory and hereditary effects inherent in many real-world systems. This study applies the Multistage Telescoping Decomposition Method (MTDM) to fractional logistic differential equations formulated using the Caputo fractional derivative. The fractional logistic equation was reformulated, and MTDM was employed to obtain semi-analytical approximate solutions without requiring computationally intensive symbolic procedures such as Adomian polynomials or Lagrange multipliers. Numerical examples were used to evaluate the method’s accuracy, efficiency, and convergence across different fractional orders. The resulting solutions were compared with those obtained using the Telescoping Decomposition Method, New Iterative Method, and Residual Power Series Method. Error analyses and graphical comparisons demonstrate that MTDM produces highly accurate approximations, converges more rapidly, and reduces computational complexity relative to the comparison methods. These findings establish MTDM as an efficient semi-analytical approach for solving fractional logistic equations and demonstrate its broader potential for nonlinear fractional differential equations. The study contributes a practical computational framework for applications involving memory-dependent processes in applied mathematics, physics, and biological modeling.

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