Abstract
An irreversible process in fractal media involves coupling relation between the space and the time. The present note displays how the fractional derivation has to be introduced to describe this effect. As a result the law of the chemical diffusion to a fractal is given.
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Le Mehaute, A. Transfer processes in fractal media. J Stat Phys 36, 665–676 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012930
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