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Fractal and Fractional, Volume 5, Issue 3

2021 September - 74 articles

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Articles (74)

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2 Citations
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In this paper, we introduce a formulation of fractional constitutive equations for finite element analysis using the reformulated infinite state representation of fractional derivatives. Thereby, the fractional constitutive law is approximated by a h...

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21 Citations
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12 Pages

Integral transformations are essential for solving complex problems in business, engineering, natural sciences, computers, optical science, and modern mathematics. In this paper, we apply a general integral transform, called the Jafari transform, for...

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27 Citations
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13 Pages

Fractional derivative models involving generalized Mittag-Leffler kernels and opposing models are investigated. We first replace the classical derivative with the GMLK in order to obtain the new fractional-order models (GMLK) with the three parameter...

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1 Citations
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21 Pages

Although stochastic fractional partial differential equations have received increasing attention in the last decade, the parameter estimation of these equations has been seldom reported in literature. In this paper, we propose a pseudo-likelihood app...

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10 Citations
2,418 Views
16 Pages

Design, Convergence and Stability of a Fourth-Order Class of Iterative Methods for Solving Nonlinear Vectorial Problems

  • Alicia Cordero,
  • Cristina Jordán,
  • Esther Sanabria-Codesal and
  • Juan R. Torregrosa

A new parametric family of iterative schemes for solving nonlinear systems is presented. Fourth-order convergence is demonstrated and its stability is analyzed as a function of the parameter values. This study allows us to detect the most stable elem...

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26 Citations
3,479 Views
17 Pages

A Note on Existence of Mild Solutions for Second-Order Neutral Integro-Differential Evolution Equations with State-Dependent Delay

  • Shahram Rezapour,
  • Hernán R. Henríquez,
  • Velusamy Vijayakumar,
  • Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar and
  • Anurag Shukla

This article is mainly devoted to the study of the existence of solutions for second-order abstract non-autonomous integro-differential evolution equations with infinite state-dependent delay. In the first part, we are concerned with second-order abs...

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8 Citations
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14 Pages

In this research, the geographic, observational, functional, and cartographic scale is unified into a single mathematical formulation for the purposes of earth observation image classification. Fractal analysis is used to define functional scales, wh...

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15 Citations
2,865 Views
17 Pages

Digital manufacturing is widely used in the production of automobiles and aircrafts, and plays a profound role in the whole supply chain. Due to the long memory property of demand, production, and stocks, a fractional-order digital manufacturing supp...

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11 Citations
2,804 Views
17 Pages

In this paper, we studied the well posedness for a new class of optimization problems with variational inequality constraints involving second-order partial derivatives. More precisely, by using the notions of lower semicontinuity, pseudomonotonicity...

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25 Citations
3,449 Views
21 Pages

It is well established fact that the functional effects, such as relaxation and retardation of materials, can be measured for magnetized permeability based on relative increase or decrease during magnetization. In this context, a mathematical model i...

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18 Citations
4,711 Views
17 Pages

CMOS OTA-Based Filters for Designing Fractional-Order Chaotic Oscillators

  • Martín Alejandro Valencia-Ponce,
  • Perla Rubí Castañeda-Aviña,
  • Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle,
  • Victor Hugo Carbajal-Gómez,
  • Victor Rodolfo González-Díaz,
  • Yuma Sandoval-Ibarra and
  • Jose-Cruz Nuñez-Perez

Fractional-order chaotic oscillators (FOCOs) have shown more complexity than integer-order chaotic ones. However, the majority of electronic implementations were performed using embedded systems; compared to analog implementations, they require huge...

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18 Citations
2,693 Views
18 Pages

On Weighted (k, s)-Riemann-Liouville Fractional Operators and Solution of Fractional Kinetic Equation

  • Muhammad Samraiz,
  • Muhammad Umer,
  • Artion Kashuri,
  • Thabet Abdeljawad,
  • Sajid Iqbal and
  • Nabil Mlaiki

In this article, we establish the weighted (k,s)-Riemann-Liouville fractional integral and differential operators. Some certain properties of the operators and the weighted generalized Laplace transform of the new operators are part of the paper. The...

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473 Citations
5,836 Views
18 Pages

Several mechanisms in industrial use have significant applications in thermal transportation. The inclusion of hybrid nanoparticles in different mixtures has been studied extensively by researchers due to their wide applications. This report discusse...

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17 Citations
3,311 Views
13 Pages

Multi-Model Selection and Analysis for COVID-19

  • Nuri Ma,
  • Weiyuan Ma and
  • Zhiming Li

In the face of an increasing number of COVID-19 infections, one of the most crucial and challenging problems is to pick out the most reasonable and reliable models. Based on the COVID-19 data of four typical cities/provinces in China, integer-order a...

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32 Citations
3,712 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we introduce a new Caputo-type modification of the Erdélyi–Kober fractional derivative. We pay attention to how to formulate representations of Erdélyi–Kober fractional integral and derivatives operators. Then, some properties of the n...

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38 Citations
2,518 Views
18 Pages

In this work, we investigate analytically the solutions of a nonlinear div-curl system with fractional derivatives of the Riemann–Liouville or Caputo types. To this end, the fractional-order vector operators of divergence, curl and gradient are ident...

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9 Citations
2,588 Views
20 Pages

Jacobi Spectral Collocation Technique for Time-Fractional Inverse Heat Equations

  • Mohamed A. Abdelkawy,
  • Ahmed Z. M. Amin,
  • Mohammed M. Babatin,
  • Abeer S. Alnahdi,
  • Mahmoud A. Zaky and
  • Ramy M. Hafez

In this paper, we introduce a numerical solution for the time-fractional inverse heat equations. We focus on obtaining the unknown source term along with the unknown temperature function based on an additional condition given in an integral form. The...

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20 Citations
2,457 Views
14 Pages

On Discrete Delta Caputo–Fabrizio Fractional Operators and Monotonicity Analysis

  • Pshtiwan Othman Mohammed,
  • Thabet Abdeljawad and
  • Faraidun Kadir Hamasalh

The discrete delta Caputo-Fabrizio fractional differences and sums are proposed to distinguish their monotonicity analysis from the sense of Riemann and Caputo operators on the time scale Z. Moreover, the action of Q operator and discrete delta Lapl...

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30 Citations
2,586 Views
15 Pages

Controllability for Fuzzy Fractional Evolution Equations in Credibility Space

  • Azmat Ullah Khan Niazi,
  • Naveed Iqbal,
  • Rasool Shah,
  • Fongchan Wannalookkhee and
  • Kamsing Nonlaopon

This article addresses exact controllability for Caputo fuzzy fractional evolution equations in the credibility space from the perspective of the Liu process. The class or problems considered here are Caputo fuzzy differential equations with Caputo d...

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12 Citations
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31 Pages

Analytic Fuzzy Formulation of a Time-Fractional Fornberg–Whitham Model with Power and Mittag–Leffler Kernels

  • Saima Rashid,
  • Rehana Ashraf,
  • Ahmet Ocak Akdemir,
  • Manar A. Alqudah,
  • Thabet Abdeljawad and
  • Mohamed S. Mohamed

This manuscript assesses a semi-analytical method in connection with a new hybrid fuzzy integral transform and the Adomian decomposition method via the notion of fuzziness known as the Elzaki Adomian decomposition method (briefly, EADM). Moreover, we...

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3 Citations
2,634 Views
17 Pages

Conditional power based on classical Brownian motion (BM) has been widely used in sequential monitoring of clinical trials, including those with the covariate adaptive randomization design (CAR). Due to some uncontrollable factors, the sequential tes...

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3 Citations
3,309 Views
14 Pages

This paper introduces an efficient numerical scheme for solving a significant class of fractional differential equations. The major contributions made in this paper apply a direct approach based on a combination of time discretization and the Laplace...

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12 Citations
3,985 Views
25 Pages

A q-Gradient Descent Algorithm with Quasi-Fejér Convergence for Unconstrained Optimization Problems

  • Shashi Kant Mishra,
  • Predrag Rajković,
  • Mohammad Esmael Samei,
  • Suvra Kanti Chakraborty,
  • Bhagwat Ram and
  • Mohammed K. A. Kaabar

We present an algorithm for solving unconstrained optimization problems based on the q-gradient vector. The main idea used in the algorithm construction is the approximation of the classical gradient by a q-gradient vector. For a convex objective fun...

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2 Citations
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21 Pages

The methods for constructing solutions to integro-differential equations of the Volterra type are considered. The equations are related to fractional conformable derivatives. Explicit solutions of homogeneous and inhomogeneous equations are construct...

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36 Citations
2,836 Views
20 Pages

Qualitative Study on Solutions of a Hadamard Variable Order Boundary Problem via the Ulam–Hyers–Rassias Stability

  • Amar Benkerrouche,
  • Mohammed Said Souid,
  • Sina Etemad,
  • Ali Hakem,
  • Praveen Agarwal,
  • Shahram Rezapour,
  • Sotiris K. Ntouyas and
  • Jessada Tariboon

In this paper, the existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions to a boundary value problem of nonlinear FDEs of variable order are established. To do this, we first investigate some aspects of variable order operators of Hadamard type. Then, wit...

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11 Citations
2,536 Views
13 Pages

This paper studies the uniqueness of solutions for several generalized Abel’s integral equations and a related coupled system in Banach spaces. The results derived are new and based on Babenko’s approach, Banach’s contraction principle and the multiv...

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8 Citations
3,225 Views
15 Pages

A multivariable technique has been incorporated for guesstimating solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (NPDE) using bases set of B-Polynomials (B-polys). To approximate the anticipated solution of the NPD equation, a linear product o...

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20 Citations
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Influence of Fin Length on Magneto-Combined Convection Heat Transfer Performance in a Lid-Driven Wavy Cavity

  • Md. Fayz-Al-Asad,
  • Mehmet Yavuz,
  • Md. Nur Alam,
  • Md. Manirul Alam Sarker and
  • Omar Bazighifan

In the existent study, combined magneto-convection heat exchange in a driven enclosure having vertical fin was analyzed numerically. The finite element system-based GWR procedure was utilized to determine the flow model’s governing equations. A param...

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11 Citations
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21 Pages

In this paper, the finite integration method and the operational matrix of fractional integration are implemented based on the shifted Chebyshev polynomial. They are utilized to devise two numerical procedures for solving the systems of fractional an...

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3 Citations
2,832 Views
21 Pages

An Experimental Approach towards Motion Modeling and Control of a Vehicle Transiting a Non-Newtonian Environment

  • Isabela Birs,
  • Cristina Muresan,
  • Ovidiu Prodan,
  • Silviu Folea and
  • Clara Ionescu

The present work tackles the modeling of the motion dynamics of an object submerged in a non-Newtonian environment. The mathematical model is developed starting from already known Newtonian interactions between the submersible and the fluid. The obta...

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2 Citations
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In this paper spectral Galerkin approximation of optimal control problem governed by fractional advection diffusion reaction equation with integral state constraint is investigated. First order optimal condition of the control problem is discussed. W...

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23 Citations
4,068 Views
27 Pages

The problem of control and stabilizing inherently non-linear and unstable magnetic levitation (Maglev) systems with uncertain equilibrium states has been studied. Accordingly, some significant works related to different control approaches have been h...

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23 Citations
3,475 Views
17 Pages

The present paper deals with the advancement of non-Newtonian fluid containing some nanoparticles between two parallel plates. A novel fractional operator is used to model memory effects, and analytical solutions are obtained for temperature and velo...

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50 Citations
3,212 Views
11 Pages

Herein, we developed and analyzed a new fractal–fractional (FF) operational matrix for orthonormal normalized ultraspherical polynomials. We used this matrix to handle the FF Riccati differential equation with the new generalized Caputo FF derivative...

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1 Citations
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14 Pages

We construct a subclass of Copson’s integral inequality in this article. In order to achieve this goal, we attempt to use the Steklov operator for generalizing different inequalities of the Copson type relevant to the situations ρ>1 as well as ρ&l...

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7 Citations
2,700 Views
14 Pages

Quarter-Sweep Preconditioned Relaxation Method, Algorithm and Efficiency Analysis for Fractional Mathematical Equation

  • Andang Sunarto,
  • Praveen Agarwal,
  • Jumat Sulaiman,
  • Jackel Vui Lung Chew and
  • Shaher Momani

Research into the recent developments for solving fractional mathematical equations requires accurate and efficient numerical methods. Although many numerical methods based on Caputo’s fractional derivative have been proposed to solve fractional math...

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14 Citations
2,778 Views
14 Pages

Particularities of Forest Dynamics Using Higuchi Dimension. Parâng Mountains as a Case Study

  • Adrian Gabriel Simion,
  • Ion Andronache,
  • Helmut Ahammer,
  • Marian Marin,
  • Vlad Loghin,
  • Iulia Daniela Nedelcu,
  • Cristian Mihnea Popa,
  • Daniel Peptenatu and
  • Herbert Franz Jelinek

The legal or illegal losses and the natural disturbance regime of forest areas in Romania generate major imbalances in territorial systems. The main purpose of the current research was to examine the dynamics of the complexity of forests under the in...

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49 Citations
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29 Pages

The present investigation dealing with a hybrid technique coupled with a new iterative transform method, namely the iterative Elzaki transform method (IETM), is employed to solve the nonlinear fractional Fisher’s model. Fisher’s equation is a precise...

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2 Citations
2,755 Views
13 Pages

Qualitative Behavior of Unbounded Solutions of Neutral Differential Equations of Third-Order

  • M. Sathish Kumar,
  • R. Elayaraja,
  • V. Ganesan,
  • Omar Bazighifan,
  • Khalifa Al-Shaqsi and
  • Kamsing Nonlaopon

New oscillatory properties for the oscillation of unbounded solutions to a class of third-order neutral differential equations with several deviating arguments are established. Several oscillation results are established by using generalized Riccati...

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138 Citations
4,363 Views
9 Pages

Homotopy Perturbation Method for the Fractal Toda Oscillator

  • Ji-Huan He,
  • Yusry O. El-Dib and
  • Amal A. Mady

The fractal Toda oscillator with an exponentially nonlinear term is extremely difficult to solve; Elias-Zuniga et al. (2020) suggested the equivalent power-form method. In this paper, first, the fractal variational theory is used to show the basic pr...

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In 2021, Mork and Ulness studied the Mandelbrot and Julia sets for a generalization of the well-explored function ηλ(z)=z2+λ. Their generalization was based on the composition of ηλ with the Möbius transformation μ(z)=1z at each iteration step. Furth...

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28 Citations
3,257 Views
17 Pages

The covariance matrix of measurement noise is fixed in the Kalman filter algorithm. However, in the process of battery operation, the measurement noise is affected by different charging and discharging conditions and the external environment. Consequ...

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16 Citations
2,605 Views
24 Pages

We consider general linear multi-term Caputo fractional integro-differential equations with weakly singular kernels subject to local or non-local boundary conditions. Using an integral equation reformulation of the proposed problem, we first study th...

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5 Citations
2,206 Views
18 Pages

The present work addresses some new controllability results for a class of fractional integrodifferential dynamical systems with a delay in Banach spaces. Under the new definition of controllability , first introduced by us, we obtain some sufficient...

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19 Citations
4,217 Views
22 Pages

Applications of the (G′/G2)-Expansion Method for Solving Certain Nonlinear Conformable Evolution Equations

  • Supaporn Kaewta,
  • Sekson Sirisubtawee,
  • Sanoe Koonprasert and
  • Surattana Sungnul

The core objective of this article is to generate novel exact traveling wave solutions of two nonlinear conformable evolution equations, namely, the (2+1)-dimensional conformable time integro-differential Sawada–Kotera (SK) equation and the (3+1)-dim...

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17 Citations
3,245 Views
23 Pages

A Mathematical Study of a Coronavirus Model with the Caputo Fractional-Order Derivative

  • Youcef Belgaid,
  • Mohamed Helal,
  • Abdelkader Lakmeche and
  • Ezio Venturino

In this work, we introduce a minimal model for the current pandemic. It incorporates the basic compartments: exposed, and both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected. The dynamical system is formulated by means of fractional operators. The model equil...

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18 Citations
4,062 Views
15 Pages

Fractional differential equations can present the physical pathways with the storage and inherited properties due to the memory factor of fractional order. The purpose of this work is to interpret the collocation approach for tackling the fractional...

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3 Citations
2,144 Views
12 Pages

The Hölderian regularity is an important mathematical feature of a signal, connected with the physical nature of the measured parameter. Many algorithms have been proposed in literature for estimating the local Hölder exponent value, but all of them...

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33 Citations
4,308 Views
24 Pages

In this paper, a modified Leslie–Gower predator-prey model with Beddington–DeAngelis functional response and double Allee effect in the growth rate of a predator population is proposed. In order to consider memory effect on the proposed model, we emp...

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6 Citations
2,537 Views
18 Pages

The goal of this paper is to study the uniqueness of solutions of several nonlinear Liouville–Caputo integro-differential equations with variable coefficients and initial conditions, as well as an associated coupled system in Banach spaces. The resul...

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