Approximate solutions of one dimensional systems with fractional derivative

Abstract

The fractional calculus is useful to model nonlocal phenomena. We construct a method to evaluate the fractional Caputo derivative by means of a simple explicit quadratic segmentary interpolation. This method yields to numerical resolution of ordinary fractional differential equations. Due to the nonlocality of the fractional derivative, we may establish an equivalence between fractional oscillators and ordinary oscillators with a dissipative term.