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Modeling Of Structural Relaxation By A Variable-Order Fractional Differential Equation, Su Yang
Modeling Of Structural Relaxation By A Variable-Order Fractional Differential Equation, Su Yang
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In physical point of view, relaxation usually describes the return from a perturbed system into equilibrium and each process has its own characteristic relaxation time. In 1946, Tool first formulated the notion of fictive temperature to characterize the structure of a glass-forming melt. Since then, people used to simulate structural relaxation by first order model. Since fractional-based models have not widely applied in modeling the fictive temperature, I want to explore the the possibility of modeling structural relaxation by fractional differential equation.
In this thesis, I will first introduce the definitions of two different kinds of fractional derivatives: Riemann-Liouville fractional …