A random differential transform method: Theory and applications

In this article, a Differential Transform Method (DTM) based on the mean fourth calculus is developed to solve random differential equations. An analytical mean fourth convergent series solution is found for a nonlinear random Riccati differential equation by using the random DTM. Besides obtaining the series solution of the Riccati equation, we provide approximations of the main statistical functions of the stochastic solution process such as the mean and variance. These approximations are compared to those obtained by the Euler and Monte Carlo methods. It is shown that this method applied to the random Riccati differential equation is more efficient than the two above mentioned methods.