Dr. Wen Chen is a Distinguished Professor and former Dean of the College of Mechanics and Materials at Hohai University, China. His research covers computational mechanics, hydrodynamics, and acoustics. His research interests include RBF-based numerical simulation, anomalous diffusion, and non-local statistics of soft matter mechanics. He also serves as Associate Director of the Chinese Society of Environmental Mechanics and the TC member on Linear Control Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control. He is former TC Chair of the sector in computational mechanics software, China Mechanics Society.

Dr. Hongguang Sun works as a Professor in the College of Mechanics and Materials, Director of Sino-US Joint Research Center of Groundwater and Environmental Fluid Mechanics, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics, Hohai University, China. His main research interests include simulation and remediation of groundwater and soil pollution,sediment transport, and high-precision computational mechanics.

Dr. Xicheng Li works as an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Jinan, China. He has been engaged in theoretical and applied research of fractional calculus, especially fractional derivative modeling of anomalous diffusion. He is also done much exploration in modeling heat and mass transfer and solving fractional differential equations.

Focuses on the application of fractional calculus in mechanics and physics

Emphasizes the physical and mechanical background of concepts in fractional calculus modeling

Presents mathematics in the simplest form in a readable manner

Introduction.- Mathematical foundation of fractional calculus.- Fractal and fractional calculus.- Fractional diffusion model.- Typical applications of fractional differential equations.