scholarly journals Attenuated Fractional Wave Equations With Anisotropy

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark M. Meerschaert ◽  
Robert J. McGough
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Fractional Calculus ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Anomalous Dispersion ◽  
Complex Media ◽  
Attenuation Index ◽  
Fractional Wave Equations ◽  
Analytical Expressions

This paper develops new fractional calculus models for wave propagation. These models permit a different attenuation index in each coordinate to fully capture the anisotropic nature of wave propagation in complex media. Analytical expressions that describe power law attenuation and anomalous dispersion in each direction are derived for these fractional calculus models.

scholarly journals Fractional wave equations with attenuation

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Straka ◽  
Mark Meerschaert ◽  
Robert McGough ◽  
Yuzhen Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Wave Equation ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Weak Solutions ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Inhomogeneous Media ◽  
Medical Ultrasound ◽  
Sound Waves ◽  
Fractional Wave Equations

AbstractFractional wave equations with attenuation have been proposed by Caputo [5], Szabo [28], Chen and Holm [7], and Kelly et al. [11]. These equations capture the power-law attenuation with frequency observed in many experimental settings when sound waves travel through inhomogeneous media. In particular, these models are useful for medical ultrasound. This paper develops stochastic solutions and weak solutions to the power law wave equation of Kelly et al. [11].

Some misinterpretations and lack of understanding in differential operators with no singular kernels

Open Physics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 594-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdon Atangana ◽  
Emile Franc Doungmo Goufo
Keyword(s):  
Fractional Calculus ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Initial Value Problems ◽  
Differential Operators ◽  
Integral Operators ◽  
Initial Value ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Singular Kernels ◽  
Fractional Differential ◽  
Theoretical Results

AbstractHumans are part of nature, and as nature existed before mankind, mathematics was created by humans with the main aim to analyze, understand and predict behaviors observed in nature. However, besides this aspect, mathematicians have introduced some laws helping them to obtain some theoretical results that may not have physical meaning or even a representation in nature. This is also the case in the field of fractional calculus in which the main aim was to capture more complex processes observed in nature. Some laws were imposed and some operators were misused, such as, for example, the Riemann–Liouville and Caputo derivatives that are power-law-based derivatives and have been used to model problems with no power law process. To solve this problem, new differential operators depicting different processes were introduced. This article aims to clarify some misunderstandings about the use of fractional differential and integral operators with non-singular kernels. Additionally, we suggest some numerical discretizations for the new differential operators to be used when dealing with initial value problems. Applications of some nature processes are provided.

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