Fractional Cattaneo-Type Equations and Generalized Thermoelasticity

Abstract

Following Compte and Metzler, the generalized Cattaneo-type equations with time-fractional derivatives are considered. The corresponding theory of thermal stresses is formulated. The proposed theory, on the one hand, interpolates the theory of Lord and Shulman and thermoelasticity without energy dissipation of Green and Naghdi and, on the other hand, generalizes theory of thermal stresses based on the fractional heat conduction equation. The fundamental solution to the nonhomogeneous fractional telegraph equation as well as the corresponding stresses are obtained in one-dimensional and axisymmetric cases.