Fractional Calculus: Some Basic Problems in Continuum and Statistical Mechanics

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We review some applications of fractional calculus developed by the author (partly in collaboration with others) to treat some basic problems in continuum and statistical mechanics.

• The problems in continuum mechanics concern mathematical modelling of viscoelastic bodies (Sect.
• 1), and unsteady motion of a particle in a viscous fluid, i.e.
• the Basset problem (Sect.