New chaotic attractors: Application of fractal‐fractional differentiation and integration

Abstract

Very recently, the concept of fractal differentiation and fractional differentiation has been combined to produce new differentiation operators. The new operators were constructed using three different kernels, namely, power law, exponential decay, and the generalized Mittag‐Leffler function. The new operators have two parameters: the first is considered as fractional order and the second as fractal dimension. In this work, we applied these new operators to model some chaotic attractors, and the models were solved numerically using a new and very efficient numerical scheme. We presented numerical simulations for some specific fractional order and fractal dimension. The classical fractional differential models could be recovered when the fractal dimension is equal to 1; in these cases, the obtained attractors with power law presented no similarities. Nevertheless, those obtained via Caputo‐Fabrizio and the Atangana‐Baleanu derivative show some crossover effects, which is due to non‐index law property. However, those obtained from fractal‐fractional, in particular, those with the Mittag‐Leffler kernel, show very strange and new attractors with self‐similarities; these results are obtained for the first time. We conclude that this new concept is the future to modelling complexities with self‐similarities.