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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816788503321

Autore

Baleanu D (Dumitru)

Titolo

Fractional calculus : models and numerical methods / / Dumitru Baleanu ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

1-280-66952-7

9786613646453

981-4355-21-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Series on complexity, nonlinearity and chaos, , 2010-0019 ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

BaleanuD (Dumitru)

Disciplina

515.83

Soggetti

Fractional calculus

Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. Preliminaries; 1.1 Fourier and Laplace Transforms; 1.2 Special Functions and Their Properties; 1.2.1 The Gamma function and related special functions; 1.2.2 Hypergeometric functions; 1.2.3 Mittag-Leffler functions; 1.3 Fractional Operators; 1.3.1 Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals and fractional derivatives; 1.3.2 Caputo fractional derivatives; 1.3.3 Liouville fractional integrals and fractional derivatives. Marchaud derivatives; 1.3.4 Generalized exponential functions; 1.3.5 Hadamard type fractional integrals and fractional derivatives

1.3.6 Fractional integrals and fractional derivatives of a function with respect to another function1.3.7 Grunwald-Letnikov fractional derivatives; 2. A Survey of Numerical Methods for the Solution of Ordinary and Partial Fractional Differential Equations; 2.1 Approximation of Fractional Operators; 2.1.1 Methods based on quadrature theory; 2.1.2 Grunwald-Letnikov methods; 2.1.3 Lubich's fractional linear multistep methods; 2.2 Direct Methods for Fractional ODEs; 2.2.1 The basic idea; 2.2.2 Quadrature-based direct methods; 2.3 Indirect Methods for Fractional ODEs; 2.3.1 The basic idea

2.3.2 An Adams-type predictor-corrector method2.3.3 The Cao-Burrage-Abdullah approach; 2.4 Linear Multistep Methods; 2.5 Other Methods; 2.6 Methods for Terminal Value Problems; 2.7 Methods for



Multi-Term FDE and Multi-Order FDS; 2.8 Extension to Fractional PDEs; 2.8.1 General formulation of the problem; 2.8.2 Examples; 3. Efficient Numerical Methods; 3.1 Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations; 3.1.1 Dealing with non-locality; 3.1.2 Parallelization of algorithms; 3.1.3 When and when not to use fractional linear multistep formulas; 3.1.4 The use of series expansions

3.1.5 Adams methods for multi-order equations3.1.6 Two classes of singular equations as application examples; 3.2 Methods for Partial Differential Equations; 3.2.1 The method of lines; 3.2.2 BDFs for time-fractional equations; 3.2.3 Other methods; 3.2.4 Methods for equations with space-fractional operators; 4. Generalized Stirling Numbers and Applications; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Stirling Functions s(a, k), a  C; 4.2.1 Equivalent definitions; 4.2.2 Multiple sum representations. The Riemann Zeta function; 4.3 General Stirling Functions s(α, β) with Complex Arguments

4.3.1 Definition and main result4.3.2 Differentiability of the s(α, β);  The zeta function encore; 4.3.3 Recurrence relations for s(α, β); 4.4 Stirling Functions of the Second Kind S(α, k); 4.4.1 Stirling functions S(a, k), a  0, and their representations by Liouville and Marchaud fractional derivatives; 4.4.2 Stirling functions S(α, k), α < 0, and their representations by Liouville fractional integrals; 4.4.3 Stirling functions S(a, k), a  C, and their representations; 4.4.4 Stirling functions S(a, k), a  C, and recurrence relations

4.4.5 Further properties and first applications of Stirling functions S(a, k), a  C

Sommario/riassunto

The subject of fractional calculus and its applications (that is, convolution-type pseudo-differential operators including integrals and derivatives of any arbitrary real or complex order) has gained considerable popularity and importance during the past three decades or so, mainly due to its applications in diverse fields of science and engineering. These operators have been used to model problems with anomalous dynamics, however, they also are an effective tool as filters and controllers, and they can be applied to write complicated functions in terms of fractional integrals or derivatives o