We use the fractional integrals to describe fractal solid. We suggest to consider the fractal solid as special (fractional) continuous medium. We replace the fractal solid with fractal mass dimension by some continuous model that is described by fractional integrals. The fractional integrals are considered as approximation of the integrals on fractals. We derive fractional generalization of the...

In this paper, a new fractional Riccati equation rational expansion method is proposed to establish new exact solutions for fractional differential equations. For illustrating the validity of this method, we apply it to the nonlinear fractional Sharma-TassoOlever (STO) equation, the nonlinear time fractional biological population model and the nonlinear fractional foam drainage equation. Compar...

Fractional-order SIR models have become increasingly popular in the literature in recent years, however unlike the standard SIR model, they often lack a derivation from an underlying stochastic process. Here we derive a fractional-order infectivity SIR model from a stochastic process that incorporates a time-since-infection dependence on the infectivity of individuals. The fractional derivative...

This paper presents an analytical technique for the analysis of a stochastic dynamic system whose damping behavior is described by a fractional derivative of order 1/2. In this approach, an eigenvector expansion method proposed by Suarez and Shokooh is used to obtain the response of the system. The properties of Laplace transforms of convolution integrals are used to write a set of general Duha...

Fractional derivative has a history as long as that of classical calculus, but it is much less popular than it should be. What is the physical meaning of fractional derivative? This is still an open problem. In modeling various memory phenomena, we observe that a memory process usually consists of two stages. One is short with permanent retention, and the other is governed by a simple model of ...

In this paper, we formulate a fractional thermal wave model for a bi-layered spherical tissue. Implicit finite difference method is employed to obtain the solution of the direct problem. The inverse analysis for simultaneously estimating the Caputo fractional derivative and the relaxation time parameters is implemented by means of the Levenberg–Marquardt method. Compared with the experimental d...

Over the few last years the idea of introducing fractional calculus and systems in adaptive control has found a great interest, for the benefit one can win in the performances given by such systems. In adaptive control, the dynamic behavior of the system is defined by a chosen reference model and an adaptation algorithm modifies the correction to minimize the process output error. In this work,...

Fractional differential equations have attracted considerable interest because of their ability to model anomalous transport phenomena. Space fractional diffusion equations with a nonlinear reaction term have been presented and used to model many problems of practical interest. In this paper, a two-dimensional Riesz space fractional diffusion equation with a nonlinear reaction term (2D-RSFDE-NR...

Traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models evaluate the efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) with common crisp input and output data. However, the data in real applications are often imprecise or ambiguous. This paper transforms fuzzy fractional DEA model constructed using fuzzy arithmetic, into the conventional crisp model. This transformation is performed considering the goal pr...

The voltage trace of neuronal activities can follow multiple timescale dynamics that arise from correlated membrane conductances. Such processes can result in power-law behavior in which the membrane voltage cannot be characterized with a single time constant. The emergent effect of these membrane correlations is a non-Markovian process that can be modeled with a fractional derivative. A fracti...