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COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 141-159Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2017.04.001
Keywords
Fractional calculus; Fractional order impedance; Impedance models; Diffusion; Respiratory impedance; Biomedicine; Power-law
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- Flanders Research Centre (FWO) [G008113N, G026514N]
- FWO post-doctoral fellowship [12B3415N]
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This review provides the latest developments and trends in the application of fractional calculus (FC) in biomedicine and biology. Nature has often showed to follow rather simple rules that lead to the emergence of complex phenomena as a result. Of these, the paper addresses the properties in respiratory lung tissue, whose natural solutions arise from the midst of FC in the form of non-integer differ-integral solutions and non-integer parametric models. Diffusion of substances in human body, e.g. drug diffusion, is also a phenomena well known to be captured with such mathematical models. FC has been employed in neuroscience to characterize the generation of action potentials and spiking patters but also in characterizing bio-systems (e.g. vegetable tissues). Despite the natural complexity, biological systems belong as well to this class of systems, where FC has offered parsimonious yet accurate models. This review paper is a collection of results and literature reports who are essential to any versed engineer with multidisciplinary applications and bio-medical in particular. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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