Modelling the spread of river blindness disease via the caputo fractional derivative and the beta-derivative

Entropy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Atangana, Abdon ^a   Alqahtani, Rubayyi T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Beta derivative; Caputo fractional derivative; River blindness disease; Special solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960386120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e18020040     Document Type: Article

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