Two approaches for defining fractional derivatives of periodic distributions are presented. The first is a distributional version of the Weyl fractional derivative in which a derivative of arbitrary order of a periodic distribution is defined via Fourier series. The second is based on the Grünwald-Letnikov formula for defining a fractional derivative as a limit of a fractional difference quotie...

In this paper, a numerical method for nonlinear fractional-order differential equations with constant or time-varying delay is devised. The order here is an arbitrary positive real number, and the differential operator is the Grünwald-Letnikov derivative. The detailed error analysis for this algorithm is given, meanwhile, the convergence of the iteration algorithm is proved. Compared with the e...

In this work, a second-order approximation of the fractional substantial derivative is presented by considering a modified shifted substantial Grünwald formula and its asymptotic expansion. Moreover, the proposed approximation is applied to a fractional diffusion equation with fractional substantial derivative in time. With the use of the fourth-order compact scheme in space, we give a fully di...

The dynamics of the nonlinear Helmholtz Oscillator with fractional order damping is studied in detail. The discretization of the differential equations according to the Grünwald-Letnikov fractional derivative definition in order to get numerical simulations is reported. Comparison between solutions obtained through a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and the fractional damping system is commented...

By space-fractional (or L evy-Feller) diiusion processes we mean the processes governed by a generalized diiusion equation which generates all L evy stable probability distributions with index (0 < 2), including the two symmetric most popular laws, Cauchy (= 1) and Gauss (= 2). This generalized equation is obtained from the standard linear diiusion equation by replacing the second-order space d...

At the end of the 19th century Liouville and Riemann introduced the notion of a fractional-order derivative, and in the latter half of the 20th century the concept of the so-called Grünewald-Letnikov fractional-order discrete difference has been put forward. In the paper a predictive controller for MIMO fractional-order discrete-time systems is proposed, and then the concept is extended to nonl...

The theory of derivative of noninteger order goes back to Leibniz, Liouville, Riemann, Grunwald and Letnikov. Derivatives of fractional order have found many applications in recent studies in mechanics, physics, economics, medicine.Classes of fractional differentiable systems have studied in [10], [4]. In the first section the fractional tangent bundle to a differentiable manifold is defined, u...