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Physics of Fractal Operators
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Physics of Fractal Operators

This text describes the statistcal behavior of complex systems and shows how the fractional calculus can be used to model the behavior. The discussion emphasizes physical phenomena whose evolution is best described using the fractional calculus, such as systems with long-range spatial interactions or long-time memory. The book gives general strategies for understanding wave propagation through random media, the nonlinear response of complex materials, and the fluctuations of heat transport in heterogeneous materials.

Physics of Fractal Operators
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Physics of Fractal Operators

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-01-14
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This text describes how fractal phenomena, both deterministic and random, change over time, using the fractional calculus. The intent is to identify those characteristics of complex physical phenomena that require fractional derivatives or fractional integrals to describe how the process changes over time. The discussion emphasizes the properties of physical phenomena whose evolution is best described using the fractional calculus, such as systems with long-range spatial interactions or long-time memory. In many cases, classic analytic function theory cannot serve for modeling complex phenomena; "Physics of Fractal Operators" shows how classes of less familiar functions, such as fractals, ca...

Complex Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Complex Worlds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Bruce J. West has been a research scientist and teacher for forty years. He is one of a handful of scientists in the world that understands complexity and who can explain its implications for modern society in everyday language. In Complex Worlds: Uncertain, Unequal and Unfair he uses his understanding of complex networks to explain why the future cannot be made certain, why the same people are always at the center of controversy, and why only a select few get ahead. The emerging properties of complexity so prevalent in society stand in sharp contrast to how the greatest thinkers of the past and present believe the world ought to be. West explores the question: Is the dissonance between what is true and what we believe ought to be true really that great? The answer is a resounding yes and he explains not only how but why.

Nature’s Patterns and the Fractional Calculus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Nature’s Patterns and the Fractional Calculus

Complexity increases with increasing system size in everything from organisms to organizations. The nonlinear dependence of a system’s functionality on its size, by means of an allometry relation, is argued to be a consequence of their joint dependency on complexity (information). In turn, complexity is proven to be the source of allometry and to provide a new kind of force entailed by a system‘s information gradient. Based on first principles, the scaling behavior of the probability density function is determined by the exact solution to a set of fractional differential equations. The resulting lowest order moments in system size and functionality gives rise to the empirical allometry relations. Taking examples from various topics in nature, the book is of interest to researchers in applied mathematics, as well as, investigators in the natural, social, physical and life sciences. Contents Complexity Empirical allometry Statistics, scaling and simulation Allometry theories Strange kinetics Fractional probability calculus

Fractal Physiology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Fractal Physiology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-05-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

I know that most men, including those at ease with the problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Joseph Ford quoting Tolstoy (Gleick, 1987) We are used to thinking that natural objects have a certain form and that this form is determined by a characteristic scale. If we magnify the object beyond this scale, no new features are revealed. To correctly measure the properties of the object, such as len...

Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine

This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences. Mathematical concepts are introduced using biomedical data sets and the phenomena being explained take precedence over the mathematics. In this new edition what has withstood the test of time has been updated and modernized; speculations that were not borne out have been expunged and the breakthroughs that have occurred in the intervening years are emphasized. The book provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a new chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine.

Fractional Calculus for Skeptics I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 147

Fractional Calculus for Skeptics I

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-05-16
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This book is the first of its kind on fractional calculus (FC), dedicated to advocating for FC in STEM education and research. Fractional calculus is increasingly used today, but there remains a core population of skeptics regarding the utility of this "new" calculus. This book is intended for those who are skeptical about the need for fractional calculus to describe dynamic complex networks and must be convinced of its use on a case-by-case basis. It is a one-stop resource to rapidly read and replace the appropriate skepticism with new knowledge. It offers compelling reasons from the perspectives of the physical, social, and life sciences as to why fractional calculus is needed when address...

Fractional Calculus View of Complexity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Fractional Calculus View of Complexity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-05
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This book is not a text devoted to a pedagogical presentation of a specialized topic nor is it a monograph focused on the author's area of research. It accomplishes both these things while providing a rationale for why the reader ought to be interested in learning about fractional calculus. This book is for researchers who has heard about many

Physiology, Promiscuity and Prophecy at the Millennium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Physiology, Promiscuity and Prophecy at the Millennium

This book concerns the development of a theory of complex phenomena; using such concepts as fractals; chaos; and fractional derivatives; but; most important; the idea of an allometric control process is developed. In summary the theory attempts to explain why the distribution in the intensity of wars is the same as the relative frequency of the number of words used in languages and the number of species evolved over time from one or a few remote ancestors. The theory also describes the similarity in the variability of the number of births to teens in Texas to the number of sexual partners in homosexual liaisons. The data in both of the aforementioned categories are shown to have long-term me...

Where Medicine Went Wrong
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Where Medicine Went Wrong

The field of solid state ionics deals with ionically conducting materials in the solid state and numerous devices based on such materials. Solid state ionic materials cover a wide spectrum, ranging from inorganic crystalline and polycrystalline solids, ceramics, glasses, polymers, composites and nano-scale materials. A large number of Scientists in Asia are engaged in research in solid state ionic materials and devices and since 1988. The Asian Society for solid state ionics has played a key role in organizing a series of bi-ennial conferences on solid state ionics in different Asian countries. The contributions in this volume were presented at the 10th conference in the series organized by ...