Numerical and Computational Methods
A section of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110).
Section Information
Fractional calculus is emerging as an adequate methodology for describing many physical phenomena and controlling systems of both integer and non-integer order. The additional degrees of freedom provided by the non-integer order and the ability to describe memory effects in system dynamics are among the main characteristics of a such successful approach.
An effective approach to validate the effectiveness and applicability of non-integer order systems is the development of Numerical and Computational Methods specifically devoted to solve fractional order problems.
The aim of this Section in Fractal and Fractional is therefore to enable the efficacy of fractional calculus to be confirmed and to propose the implementation of new numerical and computational methods based also on fractional calculus and non integer classical methods. Relevant original applications are also welcome. The range of the applications is very wide; including mathematicians/physicists (with possible implementations by a suitable computer software like e.g. MatLab, Mathematica, ...), material engineers (with possible implementations in Ansys, Comsol, ..), electronic engineers (with possible implementations in Spice, Cadence, ..) and control engineers (with possible implementations on microcontrollers).
Authors are encouraged to submit both research and applicative papers proposing and comparing new numerical and computational methods based on fractional calculus and relevant applications.
Keywords
- fractional calculus;
- numerical methods;
- approximation methods;
- computational procedures;
- algorithms;
- digital implementation;
- hardware in the Loop implementation;
- FPGA implementation;
- data mining with fractional calculus methods;
- fractional calculus with artificial intelligence applications;
- image/signal analyses based on fractional calculus;
- fuzzy fractional calculus;
- neural computations with fractional calculus;
- applications of fractional calculus in nonlinear science;
- applications in control, mechanics, financial mathematics, engineering, biomedecine, etc.
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Advances in Fractional Differential Operators and Their Applications, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Fractional Diffusion Equations: Numerical Analysis, Modeling and Application, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Advances in Fractional Modeling and Computation (Deadline: 22 December 2024)
- Recent Advances in Fractional Differential Equations and Their Applications, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- New Trends on Generalized Fractional Calculus, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
- Numerical Solution and Applications of Fractional Differential Equations, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 25 February 2025)
- Advances in Fractional Order Derivatives and Their Applications, 3rd Edition (Deadline: 20 March 2025)
- Advanced Numerical Methods for Fractional Functional Models (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Fractional Mathematical Modelling: Theory, Methods and Applications (Deadline: 15 May 2025)
- Application of Anomalous Diffusion Modeling Based on Fractal and Fractional Derivatives (Deadline: 15 May 2025)
- Numerical Analysis and Iterative Methods for Fractional Differential Equations (Deadline: 13 June 2025)
- Feature Papers for Numerical and Computational Methods Section 2024–2025: Analog and Digital Implementations (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Analysis and Numerical Computations of Nonlinear Fractional and Classical Differential Equations (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Exploration and Analysis of Higher-Order Numerical Methods for Fractional Differential Equations (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Numerical Solutions of Caputo-Type Fractional Differential Equations and Derivatives (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Fractional Evolution Equations and Applications (Deadline: 1 November 2025)
- Applications of Fractional Calculus in Modern Mathematical Modeling (Deadline: 31 December 2025)