This paper presents the necessary optimality conditions of Euler–Lagrange type for variational problems with natural boundary conditions and problems with holonomic constraints where the fuzzy fractional derivative is described in the combined Caputo sense. The new results are illustrated by computing the extremals of two fuzzy variational problems. AMS subject classifications: 65D10, 92C45

We consider infinite horizon fractional variational problems, where the fractional derivative is defined in the sense of Caputo. Necessary optimality conditions for higher-order variational problems and optimal control problems are obtained. Transversality conditions are obtained in the case state functions are free at the initial time.

This article presents a formulation of the time-fractional generalized Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation using the Euler-Lagrange variational technique in the Riemann-Liouville derivative sense. It finds an approximate solitary wave solution, and shows that He’s variational iteration method is an efficient technique in finding the solution.

in this paper, we apply the local fractional laplace transform method (or yang-laplace transform) on volterra integro-differential equations of the second kind within the local fractional integral operators to obtain the analytical approximate solutions. the iteration procedure is based on local fractional derivative operators. this approach provides us with a convenient way to find a solution ...

The present paper provides first and second-order characterizations of a radially lower semicontinuous strictly pseudoconvex function f : X → R defined on a convex setX in the real Euclidean space Rn in terms of the lower Dini-directional derivative. In particular we obtain connections between the strictly pseudoconvex functions, nonlinear programming problem, Stampacchia variational inequality...

For the problem of diffraction of harmonic scalar waves by a lossless periodic slab scatterer, we analyze field sensitivity with respect to the material coefficients of the slab. The governing equation is the Helmholtz equation, which describes acoustic or electromagnetic fields. The main theorem establishes the variational (Fréchet) derivative of the scattered field measured in the H1 (root-me...

The variational derivative of a functional J[y] can be defined as δJ/δy = F y (x, y, y ′)− d dx F y ′ (x, y, y ′) [1, pp. 27–29]. Euler's equation essentially states that the variational derivative of the functional must vanish at an extremum. This is analogous to the well-known result from calculus that the derivative of a function must vanish at an extremum. In this section, we consider a sim...