Distributed-order fractional constitutive stress–strain relation in wave propagation modeling

Abstract

Distributed-order fractional model of viscoelastic body is used to describe wave propagation in an infinite media. Existence and uniqueness of fundamental solution to the generalized Cauchy problem is obtained explicitly. The wave propagation speed is found to be related to the material properties at initial time. The fundamental solutions corresponding to four thermodynamically acceptable classes of linear fractional constitutive models and power-type distributed-order models are also obtained.