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Fractal and Fractional, Volume 5, Issue 2

2021 June - 33 articles

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Articles (33)

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
3,363 Views
13 Pages

In the three-dimensional open rectangular domain, the problem of the identification of the redefinition function for a partial differential equation with Gerasimov–Caputo-type fractional operator, degeneration, and integral form condition is consider...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,009 Views
10 Pages

Solutions of Bernoulli Equations in the Fractional Setting

  • Mirko D’Ovidio,
  • Anna Chiara Lai and
  • Paola Loreti

We present a general series representation formula for the local solution of the Bernoulli equation with Caputo fractional derivatives. We then focus on a generalization of the fractional logistic equation and present some related numerical simulations.

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,686 Views
9 Pages

This article aims to introduce an efficient simulation to obtain the solution for a dynamical–biological system, which is called the Lotka–Volterra system, involving predator–prey equations. The finite element method (FEM) is employed to solve this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,847 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, a novel escape-time algorithm is proposed to calculate the connectivity’s degree of Julia sets generated from polynomial maps. The proposed algorithm contains both quantitative analysis and visual display to measure the connectivity of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,119 Views
12 Pages

Some New Harmonically Convex Function Type Generalized Fractional Integral Inequalities

  • Rana Safdar Ali,
  • Aiman Mukheimer,
  • Thabet Abdeljawad,
  • Shahid Mubeen,
  • Sabila Ali,
  • Gauhar Rahman and
  • Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar

In this article, we established a new version of generalized fractional Hadamard and Fejér–Hadamard type integral inequalities. A fractional integral operator (FIO) with a non-singular function (multi-index Bessel function) as its kernel and monotone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
3,601 Views
20 Pages

This paper is concerned with establishing novel expressions that express the derivative of any order of the orthogonal polynomials, namely, Chebyshev polynomials of the sixth kind in terms of Chebyshev polynomials themselves. We will prove that these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,984 Views
11 Pages

The existence of solutions for a class of nonlinear neutral Hadamard-type fractional integro-differential equations with infinite delay is researched in this paper. By constructing an appropriate normed space and utilizing the Banach contraction prin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,781 Views
11 Pages

In recent years, different experimental works with molecular simulation techniques have been developed to study the transport of plasma-generated reactive species in liquid layers. Here, we improve the classical transport model that describes the mol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,887 Views
14 Pages

Phytoplankton movement patterns and swimming behavior are important and basic topics in aquatic biology. Heavy tail distribution exists in diverse taxa and shows theoretical advantages in environments. The fat tails in the movement patterns and swimm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,582 Views
16 Pages

We present an analytic solvability of a class of Langevin differential equations (LDEs) in the asset of geometric function theory. The analytic solutions of the LDEs are presented by utilizing a special kind of fractal function in a complex domain, l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,904 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, we study diffusion equations involving Hadamard-type time-fractional derivatives related to ultra-slow random models. We start our analysis using the abstract fractional Cauchy problem, replacing the classical time derivative with the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
176 Citations
15,084 Views
34 Pages

Structure, Fractality, Mechanics and Durability of Calcium Silicate Hydrates

  • Shengwen Tang,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Zhicheng Geng,
  • Xiaofei Xu,
  • Wenzhi Yu,
  • Hubao A and
  • Jingtao Chen

Cement-based materials are widely utilized in infrastructure. The main product of hydrated products of cement-based materials is calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) gels that are considered as the binding phase of cement paste. C-S-H gels in Portland ce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,633 Views
11 Pages

Design of Fractional-Order Lead Compensator for a Car Suspension System Based on Curve-Fitting Approximation

  • Evisa Memlikai,
  • Stavroula Kapoulea,
  • Costas Psychalinos,
  • Jerzy Baranowski,
  • Waldemar Bauer,
  • Andrzej Tutaj and
  • Paweł Piątek

An alternative procedure for the implementation of fractional-order compensators is presented in this work. The employment of a curve-fitting-based approximation technique for the approximation of the compensator transfer function offers improved acc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,949 Views
12 Pages

This study investigates the predictions of the real contact area for perfectly elastic rough surfaces using a boundary element method (BEM). Sample surface measurements were used in the BEM to predict the real contact area as a function of load. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,593 Views
22 Pages

Several extensions of the classical Mittag-Leffler function, including multi-parameter and multivariate versions, have been used to define fractional integral and derivative operators. In this paper, we consider a function of one variable with five p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,563 Views
28 Pages

We shall discuss three methods of inverse Laplace transforms. A Sinc-Thiele approximation, a pure Sinc, and a Sinc-Gaussian based method. The two last Sinc related methods are exact methods of inverse Laplace transforms which allow us a numerical app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,318 Views
15 Pages

Fractal Frames of Functions on the Rectangle

  • María A. Navascués,
  • Ram Mohapatra and
  • Md. Nasim Akhtar

In this paper, we define fractal bases and fractal frames of L2(I×J), where I and J are real compact intervals, in order to approximate two-dimensional square-integrable maps whose domain is a rectangle, using the identification of L2(I×J) with the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,223 Views
21 Pages

In this paper, we consider a problem of continuity fractional-order for pseudo-parabolic equations with the fractional derivative of Caputo. Here, we investigate the stability of the problem with respect to derivative parameters and initial data. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
15,350 Views
19 Pages

Utilizing Fractals for Modeling and 3D Printing of Porous Structures

  • AMM Sharif Ullah,
  • Doriana Marilena D’Addona,
  • Yusuke Seto,
  • Shota Yonehara and
  • Akihiko Kubo

Porous structures exhibiting randomly sized and distributed pores are required in biomedical applications (producing implants), materials science (developing cermet-based materials with desired properties), engineering applications (objects having co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,218 Views
10 Pages

This work focuses on a kind of fractals Parrondo’s paradoxial phenomenon “deiconnected+diconnected=connected” in an alternated superior complex system zn+1=β(zn2+ci)+(1β)zn,i=1,2. On the one hand, the connectivity variation in superior Julia sets is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,180 Views
16 Pages

Generalized Cauchy Process: Difference Iterative Forecasting Model

  • Jie Xing,
  • Wanqing Song and
  • Francesco Villecco

The contribution of this article is mainly to develop a new stochastic sequence forecasting model, which is also called the difference iterative forecasting model based on the Generalized Cauchy (GC) process. The GC process is a Long-Range Dependent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,785 Views
12 Pages

A system of nonlinear fractional differential equations with the Riemann–Liouville fractional derivative is considered. Lipschitz stability in time for the studied equations is defined and studied. This stability is connected with the singularity of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,557 Views
19 Pages

We considered relaxation, creep, dissipation, and hysteresis resulting from a six-parameter fractional constitutive model and its particular cases. The storage modulus, loss modulus, and loss factor, as well as their characteristics based on the ther...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,299 Views
12 Pages

Within this manuscript we generalize the two recently obtained results of O. Popescu and G. Stan, regarding the F-contractions in complete, ordinary metric space to 0-complete partial metric space and 0-complete metric-like space. As Popescu and Stan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,247 Views
17 Pages

A New Approach for Dynamic Stochastic Fractal Search with Fuzzy Logic for Parameter Adaptation

  • Marylu L. Lagunes,
  • Oscar Castillo,
  • Fevrier Valdez,
  • Jose Soria and
  • Patricia Melin

Stochastic fractal search (SFS) is a novel method inspired by the process of stochastic growth in nature and the use of the fractal mathematical concept. Considering the chaotic stochastic diffusion property, an improved dynamic stochastic fractal se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,452 Views
18 Pages

A Fractional SAIDR Model in the Frame of Atangana–Baleanu Derivative

  • Esmehan Uçar,
  • Sümeyra Uçar,
  • Fırat Evirgen and
  • Necati Özdemir

It is possible to produce mobile phone worms, which are computer viruses with the ability to command the running of cell phones by taking advantage of their flaws, to be transmitted from one device to the other with increasing numbers. In our day, on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,965 Views
14 Pages

Image Compression Using Fractal Functions

  • Olga Svynchuk,
  • Oleg Barabash,
  • Joanna Nikodem,
  • Roman Kochan and
  • Oleksandr Laptiev

The rapid growth of geographic information technologies in the field of processing and analysis of spatial data has led to a significant increase in the role of geographic information systems in various fields of human activity. However, solving comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,318 Views
21 Pages

In this paper, a class of time-space fractional stochastic delay control problems with fractional noises and Poisson jumps in a bounded domain is considered. The proper function spaces and assumptions are proposed to discuss the existence of mild sol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,633 Views
15 Pages

Local Convergence and Dynamical Analysis of a Third and Fourth Order Class of Equation Solvers

  • Debasis Sharma,
  • Ioannis K. Argyros,
  • Sanjaya Kumar Parhi and
  • Shanta Kumari Sunanda

In this article, we suggest the local analysis of a uni-parametric third and fourth order class of iterative algorithms for addressing nonlinear equations in Banach spaces. The proposed local convergence is established using an ω-continuity condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,337 Views
13 Pages

Fractal Interpolation Using Harmonic Functions on the Koch Curve

  • Song-Il Ri,
  • Vasileios Drakopoulos and
  • Song-Min Nam

The Koch curve was first described by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch in 1904 as an example of a continuous but nowhere differentiable curve. Such functions are now characterised as fractal since their graphs are in general fractal sets. Fur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,009 Views
23 Pages

Optimal control of fractional order systems is a long established domain of fractional calculus. Nevertheless, it relies on equations expressed in terms of pseudo-state variables which raise fundamental questions. So in order remedy these problems, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,805 Views
18 Pages

Uncertainty Quantification of Random Microbial Growth in a Competitive Environment via Probability Density Functions

  • Vicente José Bevia,
  • Clara Burgos Simón,
  • Juan Carlos Cortés and
  • Rafael J. Villanueva Micó

The Baranyi–Roberts model describes the dynamics of the volumetric densities of two interacting cell populations. We randomize this model by considering that the initial conditions are random variables whose distributions are determined by using samp...

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