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A new calculus based on fractal subsets of the real line is formulated. In this calculus, an integral of order $\alpha, 0 < \alpha \leq 1$, called $F^\alpha$-integral, is defined, which is suitable to integrate functions with fractal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Parvate , A. D. Gangal

Nonlocal and fractional-order models capture effects that classical partial differential equations cannot describe; for this reason, they are suitable for a broad class of engineering and scientific applications that feature multiscale or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-08 Marta D'Elia , Mamikon Gulian , Hayley Olson , George Em Karniadakis

In this PhD thesis we introduce a generalized fractional calculus of variations. We consider variational problems containing generalized fractional integrals and derivatives, and study them using standard (indirect) and direct methods. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Tatiana Odzijewicz

Definitions of fractional derivatives as fractional powers of derivative operators are suggested. The Taylor series and Fourier series are used to define fractional power of self-adjoint derivative operator. The Fourier integrals and Weyl…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Vasily E. Tarasov

We consider dynamical systems that are described by fractional power of coordinates and momenta. The fractional powers can be considered as a convenient way to describe systems in the fractional dimension space. For the usual space the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vasily E. Tarasov

Recently, the authors Khalil, R., Al Horani, M., Yousef. A. and Sababheh, M., in " A new Denition Of Fractional Derivative, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 264. pp. 6570, 2014. " introduced a new simple well-behaved definition of the fractional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Thabet Abdeljawad

When considering fractional diffusion equation as model equation in analyzing anomalous diffusion processes, some important parameters in the model related to orders of the fractional derivatives, are often unknown and difficult to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

The notion of a local fractional derivative (LFD) was introduced recently for functions of a single variable. LFD was shown to be useful in studying fractional differentiability properties of fractal and multifractal functions. It was…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 Kiran M. Kolwankar , Anil D. Gangal

We present a new numerical tool to solve partial differential equations involving Caputo derivatives of fractional variable order. Three Caputo-type fractional operators are considered, and for each one of them an approximation formula is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Dina Tavares , Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

This paper provides a summary of the fractal calculus framework. It presents higher-order homogeneous and nonhomogeneous linear fractal differential equations with $\alpha$-order. Solutions for these equations with constant coefficients are…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Alireza Khalili Golmankhaneh , Claude Depollier , Diana Pham

Anomalous relaxation and diffusion processes have been widely characterized by fractional derivative models, where the definition of the fractional-order derivative remains a historical debate due to the singular memory kernel that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-17 HongGuang Sun , Xiaoxiao Hao , Yong Zhang , Dumitru Baleanu

Fractional differential equations are powerful mathematical descriptors for intricate physical phenomena in a compact form. However, compared to integer ordinary or partial differential equations, solving fractional differential equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Donya Dabiri , Joshua DaRosa , Milad Saadat , Deepak Mangal , Safa Jamali

In the present paper, we address a class of the fractional derivatives of constant and variable orders for the first time. Fractional-order relaxation equations of constants and variable orders in the sense of Caputo type are modeled from…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Xiao-Jun Yang

In this paper, as the second in our series of papers on differential geometry of microlinear Frolicher spaces, we study differenital forms. The principal result is that the exterior differentiation is uniquely determined geometrically, just…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-06 Hirokazu Nishimura

This study investigates the use of fractional order differential models to simulate the dynamic response of non-homogeneous discrete systems and to achieve efficient and accurate model order reduction. The traditional integer order approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-22 John P. Hollkamp , Mihir Sen , Fabio Semperlotti

It has been recognized recently that fractional calculus is useful for handling scaling structures and processes. We begin this survey by pointing out the relevance of the subject to physical situations. Then the essential definitions and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Kiran M. Kolwankar , Anil D. Gangal

We introduce a discrete-time fractional calculus of variations. First and second order necessary optimality conditions are established. Examples illustrating the use of the new Euler-Lagrange and Legendre type conditions are given. They…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Nuno R. O. Bastos , Rui A. C. Ferreira , Delfim F. M. Torres

We show how one can construct a differential calculus over an algebra where position variables x and momentum variables p have be defined. As the simplest example we consider the one-dimensional q-deformed Heisenberg algebra. This algebra…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2011-09-13 B. L. Cerchiai , R. Hinterding , J. Madore , J. Wess

It is argued that the evolution of complex phenomena ought to be described by fractional, differential, stochastic equations whose solutions have scaling properties and are therefore random, fractal functions. To support this argument we…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrea Rocco , Bruce J. West

This paper provides a new model to compute the fractal dimension of a subset on a generalized-fractal space. Recall that fractal structures are a perfect place where a new definition of fractal dimension can be given, so we perform a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-23 M. A. Sánchez-Granero , Manuel Fernández-Martínez