Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition) ›› 2003, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (3): 256-260.

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APPLICATIONS OF FRACTIONAL EXTERIOR DIFFERENTIAL IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE

CHEN Yong, YAN Zhen-ya, ZHANG Hong-qing   

  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China
  • Received:2001-10-09 Revised:2002-06-08 Online:2003-03-18 Published:2003-03-18
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10072013);the NationalKey Basic Research Development Project Program of China(G1998030600)

Abstract: A brief survey of fractional calculus and fractional differential forms was firstly given.The fractional exterior transition to curvilinear coordinate at the origin were discussed and the two coordinate transformations for the fractional differentials for three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates to spherical and cylindrical coordinates are obtained, respectively. In particular, for v =m =1 ,the usual exterior transformations, between the spherical coordinate and Cartesian coordinate, as well as the cylindrical coordinate and Cartesian coordinate, are found respectively, from fractional exterior transformation.

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