Response to Reviewer’s Comments

Ali Pirkhedri,
Department of Computer Engineering , Islamic Azad University, Marivan Branch, Marivan, Iran,
alipirkhedri@gmail.com,
2024-03-22

Dear Reviewer, Thank you very much for your insightful comments and suggestions on my pa-
per. I appreciate the time and effort you have devoted to providing me with valuable feedback.
I have carefully considered all of your suggestions and have made the following revisions to the
manuscript.
1- On Page 2, Eq. (2.1), what means C and d ?
A: The symbol C denotes the Caputo fractional derivative (The first letter of Caputo). In frac-
tional calculus theory, there are several types of fractional derivatives, each with its own character-
istics and specific applications. Some important types of fractional derivatives include: Grünwald-
Letnikov fractional derivative, Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative and Marchaud fractional
derivative.
B: But the parameter d [1]:
The left and right Caputo fractional derivatives of order κ > 0 of a function Φ(x, t) where d < t < e
are defined by :
C κ
d Dt Φ(x, t) =d Dtκ (Φ(x, t) − Φ(x, d)) ,

and
C κ
t De Φ(x, t) =t Deκ (Φ(x, t) − Φ(x, e)) ,

respectively, where d Dtκ (Φ(x, t)) and t Deκ (Φ(x, t)) denote the left and right Riemann–Liouville
fractional derivative of order κ , that is,

d t
Z
1
D
d t
κ
(Φ(x, t)) = (t − ρ)−κ Φ(x, ρ)dρ,
Γ(1 − κ) dt d
−1 d e
Z
D
t e
κ
(Φ(x, t)) = (ρ − t)−κ Φ(x, ρ)dρ.
Γ(1 − κ) dt t

2- On page 3, Eq. (2.5), explain about value of b approximately.

Rationalized Haar functions are defined in the range [0, 1) by default. But we can also define them
in the range (0, b) which is given in the paper where b > 0.
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More generally, we define the RH functions over the interval [a, b) as [2]:

1,
 p1 ≤ t < p 12
Rv (t) = −1, p 1 ≤ t < p0 ,
 2

0, otherwise,

 
n−q 1
R0 (t) = 1, pq = a + m
(b − a), q = 0, , 1, a, b > 0.
2 2

v = 2m + n − 1, m = 0, 1, 2, ..., n = 1, 2, 3, ..., 2m .

3- Identify the rank of matrices on Page 3, Eqs. (2.11), (2.12) and (2.16).
The dimensions of all three matrices are k × k which have been written in revised paper. Also
about matrix Ωk×k which can be formulated as:
1 3
), . . . , γk ( 2k−1
 
Ωk×k = γk ( 2k ), γk ( 2k 2k ) 1×k
,

where, each element γk (t) can be formulated as:

 T
γk (t) = R0 (t), R1 (t), ..., Rk−1 (t) .
.
4-On Page 7, Section 5, specify range of ti .
The values of ti have been mentioned in Eq.(4.13) in original paper as:

2i − 1
ti = , i = 1, 2, ..., k,
2k

and the values of L∞ − error, L2 − error and C − rate have been calculated for k = 16, 32.
5-The accurate of the method is good. Can we expect a super convergence result from this tech-
nique?
Figure 1 shows the logarithmic scale mode of L∞ − error, L2 − error. Since in this semi-log rep-
resentation the error variations are approximately linear versus n, we observe that the values of
error decay exponentially and we can conclude that the convergence rate of the proposed method
is exponential.

Once again, we sincerely appreciate your constructive feedback, which has undoubtedly strength-
ened our work.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Ali Pirkhedri.

References
[1] D. Tavares, R. Almeida, and D. F. Torres, “Caputo derivatives of fractional variable order:
Numerical approximations,” communications in nonlinear science and numerical simulation,
vol. 35, pp. 69–87, 2016.
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[2] M. Heydari, Z. Avazzadeh, and N. Hosseinzadeh, “Haar wavelet method for solving high-
order differential equations with multi-point boundary conditions,” Journal of Applied and
Computational Mechanics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 528–544, 2022.