The role of the Fox-Wright functions in fractional sub-diffusion of distributed order

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-257

  Mainardi, Francesco ^a   Pagnini, Gianni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fox Wright functions; Fractional derivatives; Integral transforms; Mellin Barnes integrals; Mittag Leffler functions; Sub diffusion

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; LAPLACE EQUATION;

FOX-WRIGHT FUNCTIONS; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMS; MELLIN-BARNES INTEGRALS; MITTAG-LEFFLER FUNCTIONS;

INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 34547102267     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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