Dear Colleagues,
This Topical Collection will publish high-quality mathematical papers in the area of functional differential equations. Emphasis is placed on developments in the theory of delay differential, integrodifferential, impulsive differential, and difference equations and their applications. Possible paper topics include various boundary value problems; the positivity/negativity of their solutions; Green’s functions and their properties; existence and uniqueness solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems; optimization and control theory; stability theory; oscillation and non-oscillation; variational problems; and the use of functional differential equations in technology, economics, biology, and medicine.
In interdisciplinary approaches, which necessarily combine concepts and tools from different fields, mathematics is commonly the language used to merge all the different concepts into a unique model. Cross-border modeling and numerical simulation work within the subfields of physics and engineering are particularly welcome in this Topical Collection.
The scope of this Issue includes (but is not limited to) original research works providing characterizations, explanations, predictions of systems, and phenomena supporting the emergence of potentially novel, useful applications that can even be at a very early stage of conception. Papers based on advances in the theory of stochastic processes and stochastic models are also welcome. Papers devoted to local and nonlocal conditions and transference differential equations of heat and mass transference mathematical processes in continuous media with memory and in media with fractal structure will be considered. Papers shall investigate modified initial and mixed boundary value problems for generalized transfer differential equations of integral and fractional orders. The fields of qualitative and quantitative analysis of nonlinear evolution equations and their applications in image analysis are also of interest. Both analytical studies as well as simulation-based studies will be considered. We will cover mathematical problems in materials science, mathematical approaches to image processing with applications, applications of partial differential equations, recent advances in delay differential and difference equations, nonlinear optimization, variational inequalities and equilibrium problems, computational methods in analysis and applications, and all applied mathematical fields.
Prof. Dr. Ravi P. Agarwal
Prof. Dr. Dimplekumar N. Chalishajar
Collection Editors
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