Bifurcation and Chaos in Fractional-Order Systems
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 24230
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear dynamics; continuous/non-smooth chaotic dynamical systems of integer/fractional order; fractals
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Interests: nonlinear dynamics; complex networks and control systems
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Dear Colleagues,
The concept of fractional differentiation first emerged in 1965 in a historical correspondence between the Marquise de L'Hospital and mathematician Leibnitz. In the sequel, famous mathematicians such as Euler, Laplace, Abel, Liouville, and Riemann further developed essential technical details. It was realized recently that many scientific phenomena with complex dynamics cannot be well modeled by differential equations using integer-order derivatives. As a result, there has been an increasing interest to merge the mathematical fundamentals of fractional calculus into scientific and engineering applications such as an interdisciplinary approach, which has started to demonstrate some advantages over conventional integer-order systems. Although the previous decade witnessed significant development in this research area, many theoretical and technical problems remain to be further explored, including particularly fractional-order chaotic systems. On the other hand, finding hidden attractors in continuous-time and discrete-time fractional-order chaotic systems represents a new trend of research, one which is equal parts exciting and challenging. Of particular interest are those systems with symmetry, in which bifurcations can lead to a family of conjugate attractors all related by symmetry. Therefore, this research direction of bifurcation and chaos in fractional-order dynamical systems opens up a corpus of opportunities with great promises in such scientific fields as complex dynamics, systems and networks, and signal processing, to name a few. The present Special Issue calls for new contributions to these important and interesting topics of research, and we sincerely hope that you will be happy to participate.
Prof. Dr. Marius-F. Danca
Prof. Dr. Guanrong Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fractional-order derivative
- fractional chaotic system
- hidden attractor
- symmetry
- complex dynamics
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