This book is devoted to fractional thermoelasticity i.e. thermoelasticity based on the heat
conduction equation with differential operators of fractional order. Readers will discover how
time-fractional differential operators describe memory effects and space-fractional
differential operators deal with the long-range interaction. Fractional calculus generalized
Fourier law axisymmetric and central symmetric problems and many relevant equations are
featured in the book. The latest developments in the field are included and the reader is
brought up to date with current research. The book contains a large number of figures to show
the characteristic features of temperature and stress distributions and to represent the whole
spectrum of order of fractional operators. This work presents a picture of the state-of-the-art
of fractional thermoelasticity and is suitable for specialists in applied mathematics physics
geophysics elasticity thermoelasticity and engineering sciences. Corresponding sections of
the book may also be used as additional reading material for courses on heat and mass transfer
continuum mechanics thermal stresses as well as in fractional calculus and its applications
for graduate and postgraduate students. Extensive references are included in order to stimulate
further studies.
