Fractional Derivative Order and Fractal Scalings
摘要
The first intriguing element for integrating fractal functions and fractional order is the fractal dimension. Fractal sets, fractal functions, and fractal surfaces have non-integer (fractional) fractal dimension, in general. This characteristic has opened up the potential of bridging the two distinct domains of fractal geometry and fractional calculus, see [1–4]. Later, motivated by the merits of fractional calculus, the trend of applying fractional derivative and fractional integral to fractal interpolation functions has gained popularity. One more non-avoidable reason behind this study is the non-differentiable nature of fractal interpolation functions despite they are continuous everywhere. For detailed study on the fractional derivative and fractional integral of fractal functions, interested readers may refer the literature [5–10]. Among the various fractional derivative methods, this chapter concentrates on the Weyl-Marchaud fractional derivative.