We introduce the use of fractional calculus, i.e., the use of integrals and derivatives of non-integer (arbitrary) order, in epidemiology. The proposed approach is illustrated with an outbreak of dengue disease, which is motivated by the first dengue epidemic ever recorded in the Cape Verde islands off the coast of west Africa, in 2009. Numerical simulations show that in some cases the fraction...

We generalize existing Jacobi–Gauss–Lobatto collocation methods for variable-order fractional differential equations using a singular approximation basis in terms of weighted Jacobi polynomials of the form (1 ± x)μP a,b j (x), where μ > −1. In order to derive the differentiation matrices of the variable-order fractional derivatives, we develop a three-term recurrence relation for both integrals...

We introduce a concept of a fractional derivatives series and prove that any linear partial differential equation in two independent variables has a fractional derivatives series solution with coefficients from a differentially closed field of zero characteristic. The obtained results are extended from a single equation to D-modules having infinitedimensional space of solutions (i.e., non-holon...

In this paper an implicit fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin (LDG) finite element method is applied to solve the time-fractional seventh-order Korteweg-de Vries (sKdV) equation, which is introduced by replacing the integer-order time derivatives with fractional derivatives. We prove that our scheme is unconditional stable and L error estimate for the linear case with the convergence ra...

In this paper we establish some convergence results for Riemann-Liouville, Caputo, and Caputo-Fabrizio fractional operators when the order of differentiation approaches one. We consider errors given by $\left|\left| D^{1-\al}f -f'\right|\right|_p$ p=1 $p=\infty$ prove that both Caputo Fabrizio is a positive real r, 0<r<1. Finally, compare speed between obtaining they related Digamma function.

We generalize existing Jacobi–Gauss–Lobatto collocation methods for variable-order fractional differential equations using a singular approximation basis in terms of weighted Jacobi polynomials of the form (1 ± x)μP a,b j (x), where μ > −1. In order to derive the differentiation matrices of the variable-order fractional derivatives, we develop a three-term recurrence relation for both integrals...