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Fractal and Fractional, Volume 9, Issue 1

2025 January - 55 articles

Cover Story: Identifying the relevant scale for observing process influence is crucial in multiscale characterization. This study evaluates methods to determine a relevant scale for the relationship between relative areas and grit blasting pressure. Various media types and calculation methods are tested, along with bootstrapping approaches for scale determination. The study highlights the advantages of relative area over traditional parameters and discusses the impact of media types on surface topography. The findings suggest a pertinent scale of 10,000 µm² for the Patchwork method and a 120 µm cut-off length for the Sdr method.This research enhances the understanding of how media types and blasting pressures affect surface topography, providing insights for material processing and surface treatment. View this paper
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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,738 Views
23 Pages

Discrete Fractional-Order Modeling of Recurrent Childhood Diseases Using the Caputo Difference Operator

  • Yasir A. Madani,
  • Zeeshan Ali,
  • Mohammed Rabih,
  • Amer Alsulami,
  • Nidal H. E. Eljaneid,
  • Khaled Aldwoah and
  • Blgys Muflh

This paper presents a new SIRS model for recurrent childhood diseases under the Caputo fractional difference operator. The existence theory is established using Brouwer’s fixed-point theorem and the Banach contraction principle, providing a com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Numerical Computations of Nonlinear Fractional and Classical Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,053 Views
25 Pages

This article investigates the continuity of derivatives of real-valued functions from a topological perspective. This is achieved by the characterization of their sets of discontinuity. The same principle is applied to Gateaux derivatives and gradien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Differential Operators with Classical and New Memory Kernels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,019 Views
13 Pages

Doppler shift estimation continues to be a critical challenge of utmost significance in both theoretical research and practical engineering applications. Many innovators have crafted solutions specific to this issue, with notable contributions across...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,258 Views
25 Pages

This paper develops integral inequalities for first-order differentiable convex functions within the framework of fractional calculus, extending Boole-type inequalities to this domain. An integral equality involving Riemann–Liouville fractional integ...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,814 Views
21 Pages

To study the influence of the spatial distribution and structure of multi-scale cracks on the mechanical behavior of rocks, triaxial compression tests and cyclic triaxial complete loading and unloading tests were conducted on sandstone, with real-tim...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,186 Views
26 Pages

The proposed study seeks to investigate various analytical and numerical techniques for solving fractional differential equations, with a particular focus on their applications in mathematical modeling and scientific research within the field of alge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Systems, Integrals and Derivatives: Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,572 Views
27 Pages

To analyze the pore structure and fractal characteristics of marine shale in the lower Cambrian Niutitang Formation in northwestern Hunan Province, China, the pore characteristics of shale were characterized using total organic carbon (TOC) content,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of General Fractional Calculus Models: Insights into Viscoelasticity and Wave Propagation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,305 Views
26 Pages

Uncertainty-Based Scale Identification and Process–Topography Interaction Analysis via Bootstrap: Application to Grit Blasting

  • François Berkmans,
  • Julie Lemesle,
  • Robin Guibert,
  • Michal Wieczorowski,
  • Christopher Brown and
  • Maxence Bigerelle

Finding the relevant scale to observe the influence of a process is one of the most important purposes of multiscale surface characterization. This study investigates various methods to determine a pertinent scale for evaluating the relationship betw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal Analysis and Its Applications in Materials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,813 Views
19 Pages

This article investigates the problem of finite-time synchronization of fractional-order complex-valued random multi-layer networks without decomposing them into two real-valued systems. Firstly, by promoting real-valued signum functions, sign functi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,454 Views
18 Pages

This article addresses a new class of delayed fractional multivalued problems complemented with nonlocal boundary conditions. In view of infinite delay theory, we convert the inclusion problem into a fixed-point multivalued problem, defined in an app...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,252 Views
17 Pages

Dynamics of Fractional-Order Three-Species Food Chain Model with Vigilance Effect

  • Vinoth Seralan,
  • Rajarathinam Vadivel,
  • Nallappan Gunasekaran and
  • Taha Radwan

This study examines a Caputo-type fractional-order food chain model, considering the Holling type II functional response with the vigilance effect. The model explores the interaction dynamics of the food chain model, which consists of prey, middle pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,099 Views
18 Pages

Design and Optimization Application of Cut Blasting Parameters for One-Time Completion of Blind Shaft

  • Yifeng Zhang,
  • Yongsheng Jia,
  • Nan Jiang,
  • Quanming Xie,
  • Lin Yuan,
  • Yongbo Wu and
  • Zehui Xu

The one-time completion blasting technology for blind shafts is widely used in underground mining, for safety reasons. Efficient blind shaft excavation relies on reasonable cutting blasting technology. To optimize blasting parameters, the impact of e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,386 Views
9 Pages

This paper presents an algorithm for solving the inverse fractional Stefan problem. The considered inverse problem consists of determining the heat transfer coefficient at one of the boundaries of the considered region. The additional information nec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Physics with Fractional Application, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,827 Views
14 Pages

Existence and Uniqueness Results for a Class of Fractional Integro-Stochastic Differential Equations

  • Ayed. R. A. Alanzi,
  • Shokrya S. Alshqaq,
  • Raouf Fakhfakh and
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the existence and uniqueness (EU) of solutions to a class of Fractional Integro-Stochastic Differential Equations (FISDEs) by utilizing the fixed-point technique (FPT) and stochastic techniques. Additiona...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,875 Views
29 Pages

Discrete-Time Design of Fractional Delay-Based Repetitive Controller with Sliding Mode Approach for Uncertain Linear Systems with Multiple Periodic Signals

  • Edi Kurniawan,
  • Azka M. Burrohman,
  • Purwowibowo Purwowibowo,
  • Sensus Wijonarko,
  • Tatik Maftukhah,
  • Jalu A. Prakosa,
  • Dadang Rustandi,
  • Enggar B. Pratiwi and
  • Amaliyah Az-Zukhruf

In this paper, a discrete-time design of a fractional internal model-based repetitive controller with a sliding mode approach is presented for uncertain linear systems subject to repetitive trajectory and periodic disturbance. The proposed algorithm,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Fractional-Order Systems to Automatic Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,357 Views
24 Pages

An Effective Iterative Process Utilizing Transcendental Sine Functions for the Generation of Julia and Mandelbrot Sets

  • Khairul Habib Alam,
  • Yumnam Rohen,
  • Anita Tomar,
  • Naeem Saleem,
  • Maggie Aphane and
  • Asima Razzaque

This study presents an innovative iterative method designed to approximate common fixed points of generalized contractive mappings. We provide theorems that confirm the convergence and stability of the proposed iteration scheme, further illustrated t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fixed Point Theory and Fractals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,736 Views
21 Pages

The finite-time cluster synchronization (FTCS) of fractional-order complex-valued (FOCV) neural network has attracted wide attention. It is inconvenient and difficult to decompose complex-valued neural networks into real parts and imaginary parts. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,686 Views
17 Pages

Power-law, inverse exponential and logarithmic models are widely used as empirical tools to describe anomalies in spatial and temporal geodynamic processes. However, the lack of clear interpretation of the relationships and distinctions among these m...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,711 Views
17 Pages

This paper introduces interpolative enriched cyclic Reich–Rus–Ćirić operators in normed spaces, expanding existing contraction principles by integrating interpolation and cyclic conditions. This class of operators addresses mapp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metric Spaces with Its Application to Fractional Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,756 Views
38 Pages

This work is devoted to the hyperbolic sine function (HSF) control-based finite-time bipartite synchronization of fractional-order spatiotemporal networks and its application in image encryption. Initially, the addressed networks adequately take into...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,075 Views
24 Pages

This study presents a novel Fractional Whale Optimization Algorithm-Enhanced Support Vector Regression (FWOA-SVR) framework for solar energy forecasting, addressing the limitations of traditional SVR in modeling complex relationships within data. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Optimization, Big Data, and AI/ML)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,535 Views
20 Pages

Fractional Electrodamage in A549 Human Lung Cancer Cells

  • Hilario Martines-Arano,
  • Jose Alberto Arano-Martinez,
  • Manuel Alejandro Mosso-Pani,
  • Alejandra Valdivia-Flores,
  • Martin Trejo-Valdez,
  • Blanca Estela García-Pérez and
  • Carlos Torres-Torres

Fractional electrodamage in A549 human lung cancer cells was analyzed by introducing a non-integer order parameter to model the influence of electrical stimulation on cellular behavior. Numerical simulations were conducted to evaluate the conversion...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal and Fractional Analysis in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,545 Views
21 Pages

Series arc faults (SAFs) pose a significant threat to the safety of photovoltaic (PV) systems. However, the complex operating conditions of PV systems make accurate SAF detection challenging. To tackle this issue, this article proposes a SAF detectio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementations and Applications of Algorithms Based on Fractional Calculus to Engineering Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,203 Views
18 Pages

A Multiscale Fractal Approach for Determining Cushioning Curves of Low-Density Polymer Foams

  • Mariela C. Bravo-Sánchez,
  • Luis M. Palacios-Pineda,
  • José L. Gómez-Color,
  • Oscar Martínez-Romero,
  • Imperio A. Perales-Martínez,
  • Daniel Olvera-Trejo,
  • Jorge A. Estrada-Díaz and
  • Alex Elías-Zúñiga

This study investigates the impact response of polymer foams commonly used in protective packaging, considering the fractal nature of their material microstructure. The research begins with static material characterization and impact tests on two low...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal Theory and Models in Nonlinear Dynamics and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,582 Views
24 Pages

A nonlinear (3+1)-dimensional nonlinear Geng equation that can be utilized to explain the dynamics of shallow-water waves in fluids is given special attention. Various wave solutions are produced with the aid of the Hirota bilinear and Cole–Hop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,644 Views
22 Pages

The Unbalanced Control Research of Fractional-Order Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel STATCOM

  • Junhua Xu,
  • Guopeng He,
  • Songqin Tang,
  • Zheng Gong,
  • Chunwei Wang and
  • Yue Lan

Recent research on fractional-order cascaded H-bridge multilevel static compensator (FCHM-STATCOM) indicates that it has better performance than the traditional cascaded H-bridge multilevel static compensator (CHM-STATCOM). The existing FCHM-STATCOM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,207 Views
19 Pages

Fish-Tail Structured Fractal Monopole Printed Antenna with Dual Broadband Characteristics for Sub–6GHz 5G and X–Band Radar Applications

  • Guntamukkala Yaminisasi,
  • Pokkunuri Pardhasaradhi,
  • Nagandla Prasad,
  • Boddapati Taraka Phani Madhav,
  • Abeer D. Algarni,
  • Sudipta Das and
  • Mohammed El Ghzaoui

This article presents a printed antenna, designed with a fractal-shaped patch with fish-tail structured outer edges, a tapered feedline, and a rectangular notch-based defected partial ground structure (DPGS). The presented design has been printed on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,868 Views
21 Pages

In this work, we propose and investigate a model of the dynamical behavior of HIV/AIDS transmission by considering a new compartment of the population with HIV: the latent asymptomatic class. The infection reproduction number that stabilizes the glob...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Differential Operators with Classical and New Memory Kernels)
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,346 Views
40 Pages

Complexity evaluation of hydro-climatic datasets is a challenging but essential pre-requisite for accurate modeling and subsequent planning. Changes in climate and anthropogenic interventions amplify the complexity of hydro-climatic time-series. Unde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,968 Views
17 Pages

Granular soil is a porous medium composed of particles with different sizes and self-similar structures, exhibiting fractal characteristics. It is well established that variations in these fractal properties, such as particle size distribution (PSD),...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,413 Views
23 Pages

New Approaches to Fractal–Fractional Bullen’s Inequalities Through Generalized Convexity

  • Wedad Saleh,
  • Hamid Boulares,
  • Abdelkader Moumen,
  • Hussien Albala and
  • Badreddine Meftah

This paper introduces a new identity involving fractal–fractional integrals, which allow us to derive several new Bullen-type inequalities via generalized convexity. This study provides a significant advancement in the area of fractal–fra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Integral Inequalities and Applications, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,528 Views
16 Pages

Cosmic rays exhibit anomalous diffusion behaviors in the heliospheric environment that cannot be adequately described by classical diffusion models. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework employing a fractional Fokker–Planck equation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Physics with Fractional Application, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,800 Views
21 Pages

The aim of this article is to introduce analytical and approximate techniques to obtain the solution of time-fractional Navier–Stokes equations. This proposed technique consists is coupling the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) and Laplace tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Computational Physics with Fractional Application, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,669 Views
18 Pages

Beyond Chaos in Fractional-Order Systems: Keen Insight in the Dynamic Effects

  • José Luis Echenausía-Monroy,
  • Luis Alberto Quezada-Tellez,
  • Hector Eduardo Gilardi-Velázquez,
  • Omar Fernando Ruíz-Martínez,
  • María del Carmen Heras-Sánchez,
  • Jose E. Lozano-Rizk,
  • José Ricardo Cuesta-García,
  • Luis Alejandro Márquez-Martínez,
  • Raúl Rivera-Rodríguez and
  • Joaquín Álvarez
  • + 1 author

Fractional calculus (or arbitrary order calculus) refers to the integration and derivative operators of an order different than one and was developed in 1695. They have been widely used to study dynamical systems, especially chaotic systems, as the u...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,099 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents a novel Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) framework aimed at enhancing the performance and stability of Automatic Voltage Regulators (AVRs) in power systems. The proposed system combines fuzzy control theory with the Fractional Order P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Fractional-Order Systems to Automatic Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,010 Views
23 Pages

This paper presents an analysis of the existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions to fractional neutral Volterra-Fredholm integro-differential equations, incorporating Caputo fractional derivatives and semigroup operators with state-dependent...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,127 Views
36 Pages

The article is devoted to the study of economic cycles and crises, which are studied within the framework of the theory of N.D. Kondratiev long waves (K-waves). The object of the study is the fractional mathematical models of S. V. Dubovsky, consisti...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,862 Views
29 Pages

In this paper, an incommensurate fractional-order chaotic system is established based on Chua’s system. Combining fractional-order calculus theory and the Adomian algorithm, the dynamic phenomena of the incommensurate system caused by different...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Solutions of Fractional Differential Equations with Their Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
2,100 Views
12 Pages

An Adsorption Model Considering Fictitious Stress

  • Xiaohua Tan,
  • Xinjian Ma,
  • Xiaoping Li and
  • Yilong Li

The adsorption of coalbed methane alters the pore structure of reservoirs, subsequently affecting the coal seam’s gas adsorption capacity. However, traditional gas adsorption models often neglect this crucial aspect. In this article, we introdu...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
1,797 Views
18 Pages

In this article, we focused on the fractional order modeling, simulations and neural networking to observe the correlation between severity of infection in HIV-AIDS patients and the role of treatments and control. The model is structured with eight c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges Arising in Engineering Problems with Fractional and Integer Order, 4th Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,869 Views
18 Pages

This paper has addressed the terrain-following problem of an autonomous underwater vehicle for widely used ocean survey missions. Considering the terrain feature description with limited sensing ability in underwater scenarios, a vertically installed...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,540 Views
24 Pages

Understanding cross-correlation and information flow between stocks is crucial for stock market analysis. However, traditional methods often struggle to capture financial markets’ complex and multifaceted dynamics. This paper presents a robust...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Fractal Processes and Fractional Derivatives in Finance, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,051 Views
19 Pages

To study the effects of rock models with different fractal dimensions on their mechanical properties and fracture behavior, three representative numerical rock models, including the digital texture model, the Voronoi polygon model, and the Weibull di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal and Fractional in Geotechnical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,633 Views
20 Pages

The wetting behavior of shale oil and gas on shale surfaces is determined by the interplay of organic matter (OM), mineral composition, and the intricate pore network structure of the shale. In this paper, the sensitivity responses of the Frenkel&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,279 Views
25 Pages

With the evolution of unconventional oil and gas exploration concepts from source rocks and reservoirs to carrier beds, the inter-layer sandstone carrier bed within marine–continental transitional shale strata has emerged as a significant targe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics in Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,408 Views
31 Pages

New Solitary Wave Solutions of the Lakshamanan–Porsezian–Daniel Model with the Application of the Φ6 Method in Fractional Sense

  • Hicham Saber,
  • Hussien Albala,
  • Khaled Aldwoah,
  • Amer Alsulami,
  • Khidir Shaib Mohamed,
  • Mohammed Hassan and
  • Abdelkader Moumen

This paper explores a significant fractional model, which is the fractional Lakshamanan–Porsezian–Daniel (FLPD) model, widely used in various fields like nonlinear optics and plasma physics. An advanced analytical solution for it is attai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Physical Analysis of Fractional Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,560 Views
16 Pages

Relating the Morphology of Bipolar Neurons to Fractal Dimension

  • Bret Brouse,
  • Conor Rowland and
  • Richard P. Taylor

By analyzing reconstructed three-dimensional images of retinal bipolar neurons, we show that their dendritic arbors weave through space in a manner that generates fractal-like behavior quantified by an ‘effective’ fractal dimension. Exami...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal Analysis in Biology and Medicine)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,777 Views
12 Pages

Chladni and Fractal Dynamics: Dual Mode Marker to Map Cancer Cell Nucleus Disintegration Phases

  • Parama Dey,
  • Anup Singhania,
  • Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara,
  • Subrata Ghosh and
  • Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Conventional cancer drugs are small molecules that target specific pathways. We introduced PCMS, a 26 kDa supramolecule combining sensors (S), molecular motors (M), and switching molecules (C), integrated within a fourth-generation PAMAM structure (P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractals in Biophysics and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,508 Views
11 Pages

Some Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability Results for a Class of ϑ-Fractional Stochastic Integral Equations

  • Fahad Alsharari,
  • Raouf Fakhfakh,
  • Omar Kahouli and
  • Abdellatif Ben Makhlouf

This paper focuses on the existence and uniqueness of solutions for ϑ-fractional stochastic integral equations (ϑ-FSIEs) using the Banach fixed point theorem (BFPT). We explore the Ulam–Hyers stability (UHS) of ϑ-FSIE...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fractional Differential Equations and Their Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,884 Views
12 Pages

Forced-Perturbed Fractional Differential Equations of Higher Order: Asymptotic Properties of Non-Oscillatory Solutions

  • Said R. Grace,
  • Gokula N. Chhatria,
  • S. Kaleeswari,
  • Yousef Alnafisah and
  • Osama Moaaz

This study investigates the asymptotic behavior of non-oscillatory solutions to forced-perturbed fractional differential equations with the Caputo fractional derivative. The main aim is to unify the Beta Integral Lemma (Lemma 2) and the Gamma Integra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear Functional Analysis on Fractional Differential Equations, 2nd Edition)

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