Fractional Dynamics in Natural Phenomena and Advanced Technologies

Dumitru Baleanu is a professor at the Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania and a visiting staff member at the Department of Mathematics, Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey. He earned his PhD at the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in 1996. His fields of interest include fractional dynamics and its applications, and fractional differential equations, and he has published more than 20 books in these areas. Dumitru is Editor in Chief of Progress in Fractional Differentiation and Applications, and he is Coeditor in Chief of Discontinuity, Nonlinearity and Complexity. Jordan Hristov is a professor of chemical engineering. He was awarded a PhD (1994) and a DSc (2018) in chemical engineering at the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria. His areas of interest are transport phenomena, mathematical modelling, fractional calculus, heat transfer, and dimensional analysis regarding approximate analytical solutions of non-linear and fractional problems, heat conduction, and non-linear diffusion.