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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 567401, 15 pages
Local Fractional Fourier Series with Application to Wave Equation in Fractal Vibrating String
1Institute of Software Science, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou 450044, China
2Department of Mathematics, Texas A and M University, Kingsville, TX 78363-8202, USA
3Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, China University of Mining and Technology, Jiangsu, Xuzhou 221008, China
Received 14 August 2012; Revised 25 October 2012; Accepted 8 November 2012
Academic Editor: Lan Xu
Copyright © 2012 Ming-Sheng Hu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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