symmetry Applied Mathematics and Fractional Calculus Edited by Francisco Martmez Gonzalez and Mohammed K. A. Kaabar Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Symmetry www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry Applied Mathematics and Fractional Calculus Applied Mathematics and Fractional Calculus Editors Francisco Martinez Gonzalez Mohammed K. A. Kaabar MDPI • Basel• Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade • Manchester • Tokyo • Cluj* Tianjin MDPI Editors Francisco Martinez Gonzalez Mohammed K. A. Kaabar Departamento de Matematica Institute of Mathematical Aplicada y Estadistica Sciences, Faculty of Science Universidad Politecnica de Universiti Malaya, Cartagena Kuala Lumpur 50603 Cartagena Malaysia Spain Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994) (available at: www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/speciaLissues/ Applied_Mathematics_Fractional_Calculus). 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Contents About the Editors ............................................................................................................................................... ix Preface to ”Applied Mathematics and Fractional Calculus” ................................................................ xi Mohammad Esmael Samei, Rezvan Ghaffari, Shao-Wen Yao, Mohammed K. A. Kaabar, Francisco Martinez and Mustafa Inc Existence of Solutions for a Singular Fractional q-Differential [-25]Equations under Riemann-Liouville Integral Boundary Condition Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 1235, doi:10.3390/sym13071235 ................................................... 1 Malgorzata Klimek Spectrum of Fractional and Fractional Prabhakar Sturm-Liouville Problems with Homogeneous Dirichlet Boundary Conditions Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 2265, doi:10.3390/sym13122265 ................................................... 21 Yuri Luchko General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives of Arbitrary Order Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 755, doi:10.3390/sym13050755 ................................................... 43 Jehad Alzabut, A. George Maria Selvam, R. Dhineshbabu and Mohammed K. A. Kaabar The Existence, Uniqueness, and Stability Analysis of the Discrete Fractional Three-Point Boundary Value Problem for the Elastic Beam Equation Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 789, doi:10.3390/sym13050789 ................................................... 57 Chenkuan Li and Joshua Beaudin Uniqueness of Abel’s Integral Equations of the Second Kind with Variable Coefficients Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 1064, doi:10.3390/sym13061064 ................................................... 75 Shahram Rezapour, Atika Imran, Azhar Hussain, Francisco Martinez, Sina Etemad and Mohammed K. A. Kaabar Condensing Functions and Approximate Endpoint Criterion for the Existence Analysis of Quantum Integro-Difference FBVPs Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 469, doi:10.3390/sym13030469 ................................................... 87 Alberto Cabada, Nikolay D. Dimitrov and Jagan Mohan Jonnalagadda Non-Trivial Solutions of Non-Autonomous Nabla Fractional Difference Boundary Value Problems Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 1101, doi:10.3390/sym13061101 ................................................... 109 Maria Alessandra Ragusa and Fan Wu Regularity Criteria for the 3D Magneto-Hydrodynamics Equations in Anisotropic Lorentz Spaces Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 625, doi:10.3390/sym13040625 ................................................... 125 Michael A. Awuya and Dervis Subasi Aboodh Transform Iterative Method for Solving Fractional Partial Differential Equation with Mittag-Leffler Kernel Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 2055, doi:10.3390/sym13112055 ................................................... 135 Sarra Guechi, Rajesh Dhayal, Amar Debbouche and Muslim Malik Analysis and Optimal Control of ф-Hilfer Fractional Semilinear Equations Involving Nonlocal Impulsive Conditions Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 2084, doi:10.3390/sym13112084 ................................................... 155 v Manuel Duarte Ortigueira and Gabriel Bengochea Bilateral Tempered Fractional Derivatives Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 823, doi:10.3390/sym13050823 173 Shugui Kang, Youmin Lu and Wenying Feng А-Interval of Triple Positive Solutions for the Perturbed Gelfand Problem Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 1606, doi:10.3390/sym13091606 ................................................... 187 Surang Sitho, Sina Etemad, Brahim Tellab, Shahram Rezapour, Sotiris K. Ntouyas and Jessada Tariboon Approximate Solutions of an Extended Multi-Order Boundary Value Problem by Implementing Two Numerical Algorithms Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 1341, doi:10.3390/sym13081341 199 Vladimir E. Fedorov, Marina V. Plekhanova and Elizaveta M. Izhberdeeva Initial Value Problems of Linear Equations with the Dzhrbashyan-Nersesyan Derivative in Banach Spaces Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 1058, doi:10.3390/sym13061058 225 Shazad Shawki Ahmed and Shabaz Jalil MohammedFaeq Bessel Collocation Method for Solving Fredholm-Volterra Integro-Fractional Differential Equations of Multi-High Order in the Caputo Sense Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 2354, doi:10.3390/sym13122354 239 Tinggang Zhao and Yujiang Wu Hermite Cubic Spline Collocation Method for Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations with Variable-Order Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 872, doi:10.3390/sym13050872 267 Pongsakorn Sunthrayuth, Ahmed M. Zidan, Shao-Wen Yao, Rasool Shah and Mustafa Inc The Comparative Study for Solving Fractional-Order Fornberg-Whitham Equation via p-Laplace Transform Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 784, doi:10.3390/sym13050784 297 Ricardo Almeida and Natalia Martins New Variational Problems with an Action Depending on Generalized Fractional Derivatives, the Free Endpoint Conditions, and a Real Parameter Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 592, doi:10.3390/sym13040592 313 Sachin Kumar, Baljinder Kour, Shao-Wen Yao, Mustafa Inc and Mohamed S. Osman Invariance Analysis, Exact Solution and Conservation Laws of (2 + 1) Dim Fractional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) System Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 477, doi:10.3390/sym13030477 331 Nehad Ali Shah, Yasser S. Hamed, Khadijah M. Abualnaja, Jae-Dong Chung, Rasool Shah and Adnan Khan A Comparative Analysis of Fractional-Order Kaup-Kupershmidt Equation within Different Operators Reprinted from: Symmetry 2022, 14, 986, doi:10.3390/sym14050986 347 Pshtiwan Othman Mohammed, Hassen Aydi, Artion Kashuri, Y. S. Hamed and Khadijah M. Abualnaja Midpoint Inequalities in Fractional Calculus Defined Using Positive Weighted Symmetry Function Kernels Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 550, doi:10.3390/sym13040550 371 vi Saima Rashid, Aasma Khalid, Sobia Sultana, Zakia Hammouch, Rasool Shah and Abdullah M. Alsharif A Novel Analytical View of Time-Fractional Korteweg-De Vries Equations via a New Integral Transform Reprinted from: Symmetry 2021, 13, 1254, doi:10.3390/sym13071254 393 vii About the Editors Francisco Martinez Gonzalez Francisco Martinez is a tenured associate professor at the Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain. He received his PhD degree in Physics from Universidad de Murcia in 1992. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics methods and their applications, fractional calculus, fractional differential equations, multivariate calculus or special functions, and the divulgation of mathematics. Mohammed K. A. Kaabar Mohammed K. A. Kaabar received all his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Applied and Theoretical Mathematics from Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA, USA. Prof. Kaabar has diverse experience in teaching, globally, and has worked as Adjunct Full Professor of Mathematics, Math Lab Instructor, and Lecturer at various US institutions such as Moreno Valley College, California, USA, Washington State University, Washington, USA, and Colorado Early Colleges, Colorado, USA. Prof. Kaabar is an Elected Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences of Ukraine and Ukrainian School of Mining Engineering, Senior Member of the Hong Kong Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering Society (HKCBEES), and Council Member of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI). He has published more than 100 research papers indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He has authored two math textbooks, and he served as an invited referee for more than 300 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) international conferences and journals all over the world. He served as an editor for the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Graduate Student Blog and full editor for an educational program (Mathematics and Statistics Section) at California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA. Prof. Kaabar is currently serving as an editor for 21 international scientific journals in applied mathematics and engineering. He is an invited keynote speaker in scientific conferences in Hong Kong, France, Ukraine, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India, Romania, USA, Singapore, and Italy. His research interests are fractional calculus, applied analysis, fractal calculus, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, deep learning, and nonlinear optimization. ix