Variational iteration method for fractional calculus - A universal approach by Laplace transform

Advances in Difference Equations

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wu, Guo Cheng ^a,b   Baleanu, Dumitru ^c,d,e  

^a NEIJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CANKAYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

fractional calculus; Laplace transform; symbolic computation; variational iteration method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874035986     PISSN: 16871839     EISSN: 16871847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1687-1847-2013-18     Document Type: Article

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