New Aspects of the Motion of a Particle in a Circular Cavity

Abstract

In this work, we consider the free motion of a particle in a circular cavity. For this model, we obtain the classical and fractional Lagrangian as well as the fractional Hamilton's equations (FHEs) of motion. The fractional equations are formulated in the sense of Caputo and a new fractional derivative with Mittag-Leffler nonsingular kernel. Numerical simulations of the FHEs within these two fractional operators are presented and discussed for some fractional derivative orders. Numerical results are based on a discretization scheme using the Euler convolution quadrature rule for the discretization of the convolution integral. Simulation results show that the fractional calculus provides more flexible models demonstrating new aspects of the real-world phenomena.