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Fractional calculus is a powerful and effective tool for modelling nonlinear systems. In this paper, we introduce a class of new fractional derivative named general conformable fractional derivative (GCFD) to describe the physical world. The GCFD is generalized from the concept of conformable fractional derivative (CFD) proposed by Khalil. We point out that the term \(t^{1-\alpha }\) in CFD definition is not essential and it is only a kind of “fractional conformable function”. We also give physical and geometrical interpretations of GCFD which thus indicate potential applications in physics and engineering. It is easy to demonstrate that CFD is a special case of GCFD, then to the authors’ knowledge, so far we first give the physical and geometrical interpretations of CFD. The above work is done by a new framework named Extended Gâteaux derivative and Linear Extended Gâteaux derivative which are natural extensions of Gâteaux derivative. As an application, we discuss a scheme for solving fractional differential equations of GCFD.
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This work was supported partially by National Natural Science Foundation of China (under Grant No.11171238).
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Zhao, D., Luo, M. General conformable fractional derivative and its physical interpretation. Calcolo 54, 903–917 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10092-017-0213-8
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Keywords
- General conformable fractional derivative
- Conformable fractional derivative
- Fractional conformable function
- Extended Gâteaux derivative
- Linear Extended Gâteaux derivative
- Physical interpretation
- Geometrical interpretation
- Local fractional derivative