On complete monotonicity of the Prabhakar function and non-Debye relaxation in dielectrics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 293, Issue , 2015, Pages 70-80

  Mainardi, Francesco ^a   Garrappa, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complete monotonicity; Havriliak Negami; Laplace transform; Mittag Leffler functions; Prabhakar function

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

CHARACTERISTICS PARAMETERS; COMPLETE MONOTONICITY; CONDITION; HAVRILIAK-NEGAMI; MITTAG-LEFFLER FUNCTIONS; MONOTONICS; NON-DEBYE; NON-DEBYE RELAXATION; PRABHAKAR FUNCTION; THREE PARAMETERS;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84905881342     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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