Time-Fractal and Fractional Models in Physics and Engineering
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 98
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue titled "Time-Fractal and Fractional Models in Physics and Engineering" covers concepts and models in the fields of fractals, multifractals, DFA, MCCA, and fractional analysis in natural science, engineering, social science, and econophysics. It includes complex networks related to fractals in transportation and civil engineering and introduces the theoretical and computer-simulated method of fractals, which is currently an active field of research. Among the applied fields, neural network applications pertain to object and image recognition in social sciences and the economic physics fields of stocks, exchange rates, futures, and bitcoin.
The focus of this Special Issue is to continue to advance research on topics related to theory, design, implementation, and application in the above fields. The topics that submissions may cover include (but are not limited to) the following：
- Fractals, multifractals, DFA, MCCA, fractional analysis;
- Fractals of anomalous transport in stochastic process, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics;
- Fractals in social, civil, engineering and space systems;
- Fractals and multifractals in complex networks;
- Fractals in machine learning and artificial intelligence;
- Fractals in fluid dynamics, energy, climate and global change;
- Multifractals regarding stock, the exchange rate, futures, cryptocurrency, etc., in econophysics;
- Fractals in medical sciences and brain networks;
- Fractal dynamics of time series data in chaos theory.
Research papers and review papers should be approximately 15 pages long. Short notes and letters should be approximately 7 pages long.
Prof. Dr. Kyungsik Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fractals, multifractals, MDFA, MDCCA, fractional analysis
- thermodynamics, statistical mechanics
- machine learning, artificial intelligence
- complex network
- image recognition
- fluid climate and global change
- econophysics
- brain network
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