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The time-dependent barrier passage of a Brownian particle diffusing in the fractional damping environment is studied by using the reactive flux method. Characteristic quantities such as the rate constant and stationary transmission coefficient are computed for a thimbleful of insight into the barrier escaping dynamics. Results show that the barrier recrossing of the fractional damping reactive system is obviously weakened. And the nonmonotonic varying of the stationary transmission coefficient reveals a close dependence of the escaping process on the fractional damping properties. The time-dependent barrier passage of one-dimensional fractional damping reactive process is found very similar to the two-dimensional non-Ohmic case.

Electromagnetic energy harvester has been widely concerned in recent years due to its advantages of small size and high sensing frequency. In this paper, the stochastic behaviors of a nonlinear electromagnetic energy harvesting system (NEEH) with fractional damping are investigated under the additive and multiplicative stochastic excitation. Firstly, by applying the stochastic average method to the NEEH system, the mean square of the output current, and the steady-state probability density of vibration amplitude, displacement and velocity are obtained. Meanwhile, the validity of the theoretical results is verified by comparing with the numerical results given by the Monte Carlo method. Secondly, by investigating the theoretical and numerical results, the influences of noise intensity and fractional order on the NEEH system are explored. It is obvious that a higher output voltage can be obtained by the larger intensity of the stochastic excitation, and the smaller coefficient and fractional order of the fractional damping.

We report, in this paper, a recent study on the dynamical mechanism of Brownian particles diffusing in the fractional damping environment, where several important quantities such as the mean square displacement (MSD) and mean square velocity are calculated for dynamical analysis. A particular type of backward motion is found in the diffusion process. The reason of it is analyzed intrinsically by comparing with the diffusion in various dissipative environments. Results show that the diffusion in the fractional damping environment obeys the Langevin dynamics which is quite different form what is expected.

In this paper, we obtain decay rates for the total energy associated to the linear plate equation with effects of rotational inertia and a fractional damping term depending on a number θ ∈ [0, 1]. We observe that the dissipative structure of the equation with θ = 0 is of the regularity-loss type. This decay structure still remains true in the plate equation with a power of fractional damping θ > 0, but it becomes more weak when θ increase. This means that we can have an optimal decay estimate of solutions under an additional regularity assumption on the initial data. Our results generalize previous results by Luz and Charão and some of recent results due to Sugitani and Kawashima. We use a special method in the Fourier space which we developed in a previous work for the wave equation. So, our approach shows to be very effective to study decay properties for several problems in Rⁿ.