A survey on the stability of fractional differential equations

Recently, fractional calculus has attracted much attention since it plays an important role in many fields of science and engineering. Especially, the study on stability of fractional differential equations appears to be very important. In this paper, a brief overview on the recent stability results of fractional differential equations and the analytical methods used are provided. These equations include linear fractional differential equations, nonlinear fractional differential equations, fractional differential equations with time-delay. Some conclusions for stability are similar to that of classical integer-order differential equations. However, not all of the stability conditions are parallel to the corresponding classical integer-order differential equations because of non-locality and weak singularities of fractional calculus. Some results and remarks are also included.     

Fractional statistical mechanics

The Liouville and first Bogoliubov hierarchy equations with derivatives of noninteger order are derived. The fractional Liouville equation is obtained from the conservation of probability to find a system in a fractional volume element. This equation is used to obtain Bogoliubov hierarchy and fractional kinetic equations with fractional derivatives. Statistical mechanics of fractional generalization of the Hamiltonian systems is discussed. Liouville and Bogoliubov equations with fractional coordinate and momenta derivatives are considered as a basis to derive fractional kinetic equations. The Fokker-Planck-Zaslavsky equation that has fractional phase-space derivatives is obtained from the fractional Bogoliubov equation. The linear fractional kinetic equation for distribution of the charged particles is considered.     

Fractional differential equations of motion in terms of combined Riemann—Liouville derivatives

In this paper,we focus on studying the fractional variational principle and the differential equations of motion for a fractional mechanical system.A combined Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative operator is defined,and a fractional Hamilton principle under this definition is established.The fractional Lagrange equations and the fractional Hamilton canonical equations are derived from the fractional Hamilton principle.A number of special cases are given,showing the universality of our conclusions.At the end of the paper,an example is given to illustrate the application of the results.     

Consistent Riccati Expansion Method and Its Applications to Nonlinear Fractional Partial Differential Equations

In this paper, a consistent Riccati expansion method is developed to solve nonlinear fractional partial differential equations involving Jumarie's modified Riemann–Liouville derivative. The efficiency and power of this approach are demonstrated by applying it successfully to some important fractional differential equations, namely, the time fractional Burgers, fractional Sawada–Kotera, and fractional coupled mKdV equation. A variety of new exact solutions to these equations under study are constructed.     

分数阶Oldroyd-B黏弹性Poiseuille流的Laplace数值反演分析

采用Laplace数值反演的Stehfest算法研究了分数阶Oldroyd-B粘弹性流体在两平板间非定常的Poiseuille流动问题.首先,通过数值解与近似解析解的比较验证了Stehfest算法的有效性.其次,运用Stehfest算法对平板Poiseuille流动进行了研究,揭示了分数阶黏弹性平板流的速度过冲和应力过冲现象,指出这些现象对分数导数的阶数存在明显的依赖性.同时,数值结果表明,整数阶本构方程仅仅是分数阶本构方程的特例,分数阶本构方程较整数阶本构方程具有更广泛的适用性。     

Fractional hamilton formalism within caputo’s derivative

In this paper we develop a fractional Hamiltonian formulation for dynamic systems defined in terms of fractional Caputo derivatives. Expressions for fractional canonical momenta and fractional canonical Hamiltonian are given, and a set of fractional Hamiltonian equations are obtained. Using an example, it is shown that the canonical fractional Hamiltonian and the fractional Euler-Lagrange formulations lead to the same set of equations.     

Lattice model with power-law spatial dispersion for fractional elasticity

A lattice model with a spatial dispersion corresponding to a power-law type is suggested. This model serves as a microscopic model for elastic continuum with power-law non-locality. We prove that the continuous limit maps of the equations for the lattice with the power-law spatial dispersion into the continuum equations with fractional generalizations of the Laplacian operators. The suggested continuum equations, which are obtained from the lattice model, are fractional generalizations of the integral and gradient elasticity models. These equations of fractional elasticity are solved for two special static cases: fractional integral elasticity and fractional gradient elasticity.     

Lagrange equations of nonholonomic systems with fractional derivatives

This paper obtains Lagrange equations of nonholonomic systems with fractional derivatives. First, the exchanging relationships between the isochronous variation and the fractional derivatives are derived. Secondly, based on these exchanging relationships, the Hamilton's principle is presented for non-conservative systems with fractional derivatives. Thirdly, Lagrange equations of the systems are obtained. Furthermore, the d'Alembert–Lagrange principle with fractional derivatives is presented,and the Lagrange equations of nonholonomic systems with fractional derivatives are studied. An example is designed to illustrate these results.     

Exponential rational function method for space–time fractional differential equations

In this paper, exponential rational function method is applied to obtain analytical solutions of the space–time fractional Fokas equation, the space–time fractional Zakharov Kuznetsov Benjamin Bona Mahony, and the space–time fractional coupled Burgers’ equations. As a result, some exact solutions for them are successfully established. These solutions are constructed in fractional complex transform to convert fractional differential equations into ordinary differential equations. The fractional derivatives are described in Jumarie’s modified Riemann–Liouville sense. The exact solutions obtained by the proposed method indicate that the approach is easy to implement and effective.     

A new approach for seeking coefficient function solutions of conformable fractional partial differential equations based on the Jacobi elliptic equation

In this paper, we present an approach for seeking exact solutions with coefficient function forms of conformable fractional partial differential equations. By a combination of an under-determined fractional transformation and the Jacobi elliptic equation, exact solutions with coefficient function forms can be obtained for fractional partial differential equations. The innovation point of the present approach lies in two aspects. One is the fractional transformation, which involve the traveling wave transformations used by many articles as special cases. The other is that more general exact solutions with coefficient function forms can be found, and traveling wave solutions with constants coefficients are only special cases of our results. As of applications, we apply this method to the space-time fractional (2+1)-dimensional dispersive long wave equations and the time fractional Bogoyavlenskii equations. As a result, some exact solutions with coefficient function forms for the two equations are successfully found.     

Integrable coupling system of fractional soliton equation hierarchy

In this Letter, we consider the derivatives and integrals of fractional order and present a class of the integrable coupling system of the fractional order soliton equations. The fractional order coupled Boussinesq and KdV equations are the special cases of this class. Furthermore, the fractional AKNS soliton equation hierarchy is obtained.     

Investigation of classical and fractional Bose–Einstein condensation for harmonic potential

In this study, classical and fractional Gross–Pitaevskii (GP) equations were solved for harmonic potential and repulsive interactions between the boson particles using the Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM) to investigate the ground state dynamics of Bose–Einstein Condensation (BEC). The purpose of writing fractional GP equations is to consider the system in a more realistic manner. The memory effects of non-Markovian processes involving long-range interactions between bosons with the restriction of the ergodic hypothesis and the effect of non-Gaussian distributions of bosons in the condensation can be taken into account with time fractional and space fractional GP equations, respectively. The obtained results of the fractional GP equations differ from the results of the classical one. While the Gauss distribution describing the homogeneous, reversible and unitary system is obtained from the classical GP equation, the probability density of the solution function of fractional GP equations is non-conserved. This situation describes the inhomogeneous, irreversible and non-unitary systems.     

Phase synchronization in fractional differential chaotic systems

We propose an analytical justification for phase synchronization of fractional differential equations. This justification is based upon a linear stability criterion for fractional differential equations. We then investigate the existence of phase synchronization in chaotic forced Duffing and Sprott-L fractional differential systems of equations. Our numerical results agree with those analytical justifications.     

Cosmological Models with Fractional Derivatives and FractionalAction Functional

Cosmological models of a scalar field with dynamical equations containing fractional derivatives or derived from the Einstein-Hilbert action of fractional Order, are constructed. A number of exact solutions to those equations of fractional cosmological models in both cases is given.     

Non-Noether symmetries of Hamiltonian systems with conformable fractional derivatives

In this paper, we present the fractional Hamilton's canonical equations and the fractional non-Noether symmetry of Hamilton systems by the conformable fractional derivative. Firstly, the exchanging relationship between isochronous variation and fractional derivatives, and the fractional Hamilton principle of the system under this fractional derivative are proposed. Secondly, the fractional Hamilton's canonical equations of Hamilton systems based on the Hamilton principle are established. Thirdly, the fractional non-Noether symmetries, non-Noether theorem and non-Noether conserved quantities for the Hamilton systems with the conformable fractional derivatives are obtained. Finally, an example is given to illustrate the results.     

Fractional derivative order determination from harmonic oscillator damping factor

This article analysis differential equations which represents damped and fractional oscillators. First, it is shown that prior to using physical quantities in fractional calculus, it is imperative that they are turned dimensionless. Approximated expressions that relate the two equations parameters, when fractional order is close to an integer, are presented. Following, a numerical regression is made using power series expansion, and, also from fractional calculus, the fact that both equations cannot be equivalent is concluded. In the end, from the numerical regression data, the analytical approximated expressions that relate the two equations’ parameters are refined.     

Exactly solving some typical Riemann-Liouville fractional models by a general method of separation of variables

Finding exact solutions for Riemann–Liouville(RL) fractional equations is very difficult. We propose a general method of separation of variables to study the problem. We obtain several general results and, as applications, we give nontrivial exact solutions for some typical RL fractional equations such as the fractional Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation and the fractional Langmuir chain equation. In particular, we obtain non-power functions solutions for a kind of RL time-fractional reaction–diffusion equation. In addition, we find that the separation of variables method is more suited to deal with high-dimensional nonlinear RL fractional equations because we have more freedom to choose undetermined functions.     

Fractional Electromagnetic Equations Using Fractional Forms

The generalized physics laws involving fractional derivatives give new models and conceptions that can be used in complex systems having memory effects. Using the fractional differential forms, the classical electromagnetic equations involving the fractional derivatives have been worked out. The fractional conservation law for the electric charge and the wave equations were derived by using this method. In addition, the fractional vector and scalar potentials and the fractional Poynting theorem have been derived.     

The Dual Action of Fractional Multi Time Hamilton Equations

The fractional multi time Lagrangian equations has been derived for dynamical systems within Riemann-Liouville derivatives. The fractional multi time Hamiltonian is introduced as Legendre transformation of multi time Lagrangian. The corresponding fractional Euler-Lagrange and the Hamilton equations are obtained and the fractional multi time constant of motion are discussed.     

Numerical approximations for fractional diffusion equations via a Chebyshev spectral-tau method

In this paper, a class of fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients is considered. An accurate and efficient spectral tau technique for solving the fractional diffusion equations numerically is proposed. This method is based upon Chebyshev tau approximation together with Chebyshev operational matrix of Caputo fractional differentiation. Such approach has the advantage of reducing the problem to the solution of a system of algebraic equations, which may then be solved by any standard numerical technique. We apply this general method to solve four specific examples. In each of the examples considered, the numerical results show that the proposed method is of high accuracy and is efficient for solving the time-dependent fractional diffusion equations.