Table of Contents

1. Preliminaries.2. Fractional Integrals and Fractional Derivatives.3. Ordinary Fractional Differential Equations. Existence and Uniqueness Theorems.4. Methods for Explicitly solving Fractional Differential Equations.5. Integral Transform Methods for Explicit Solutions to Fractional Differential Equations.6. Partial Fractional Differential Equations.7. Sequential Linear Differential Equations of Fractional Order.8. Further Applications of Fractional Models.BibliographySubject Index

About the Author

Dr. Hari M. Srivastava is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1965 while he was a full-time member of the teaching faculty at the Jai Narain Vyas University of Jodhpur, India. Dr. Srivastava has held (and continues to hold) numerous Visiting, Honorary and Chair Professorships at many universities and research institutes in di?erent parts of the world. Having received several D.Sc. (honoris causa) degrees as well as honorary memberships and fellowships of many scienti?c academies and scienti?c societies around the world, he is also actively associated editorially with numerous international scienti?c research journals as an Honorary or Advisory Editor or as an Editorial Board Member. He has also edited many Special Issues of scienti?c research journals as the Lead or Joint Guest Editor, including the MDPI journal Axioms, Mathematics, and Symmetry, the Elsevier journals, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Alexandria Engineering Journal, and Journal of King Saud University – Science, the Wiley journal, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, the Springer journals, Advances in Di?erence Equations, Journal of Inequalities and Applications, Fixed Point Theory and Applications, and Boundary Value Problems, the American Institute of Physics journal, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, and the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences journal, AIMS Mathematics, among many others. Dr. Srivastava has been a Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly-Cited Researcher since 2015. Dr. Srivastava’s research interests include several areas of Pure and Applied Mathematical Sciences, such as Real and Complex Analysis, Fractional Calculus and Its Applications, Integral Equations and Transforms, Higher Transcendental Functions and Their Applications, q-Series and q-Polynomials, Analytic Number Theory, Analytic and Geometric Inequalities, Probability and Statistics, and Inventory Modeling and Optimization. He has published 36 books, monographs, and edited volumes, 36 book (and encyclopedia) chapters, 48 papers in international conference proceedings, and more than 1450 peer-reviewed international scienti?c research journal articles, as well as Forewords and Prefaces to many books and journals.

Reviews

"This book presents a nice and systematic treatment of the theory and applications of fractional differential equations." --ZENTRALBLATT MATH DATABASE 1931-2007"This book is a valuable resource for any worker in electronic structure theory, both for its insight into the utility of a variety of relativistic methods, and for its assessment of the contribution of relativity to a wide range of experimental properties." --THEOR CHEM ACC (2007)"For obvious reasons, the book is rather technical, but its main goal is the ultimate applications. These are explicitly or implicitly present during the whole text but they are only treated in their mathematical formulation. I.e., the electrotechnical, biological, optical, or whatever exotic context it could have been embedded in is avoided here. The book is thus certainly interesting for the (applied) mathematician, but, also for researchers who are working in one of the quite diverse applied areas where fractional models are more and more used these days." --Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society