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

被引:22
作者
Atangana, Abdon [1 ,2 ]
Goufo, Emile Franc Doungmo [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Free State, Fac Nat & Agr Sci, Inst Groundwater Studies, Bloemfontien, South Africa
[2] China Med Univ Hosp, Dept Med Res, Taichung, Taiwan
[3] Univ South Africa, Dept Math Sci, ZA-0003 Florida, South Africa
来源
OPEN PHYSICS | 2020年 / 18卷 / 01期
关键词
fractional derivative with dimension; integration with dimensionalization; law-related exact solution; numerical approach; applications;
D O I
10.1515/phys-2020-0158
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Humans 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 nonsingular 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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页码:594 / 612
页数:19
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