Local Fractional Poisson and Laplace Equations with Applications to Electrostatics in Fractal Domain

1 Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3 Electronic and Information Technology Department, Jiangmen Polytechnic, Jiangmen 529090, China 4 School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710048, China 5 Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80204, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia 6Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Cankaya University, 06530 Ankara, Turkey 7 Institute of Space Sciences, Magurele, 077125 Bucharest, Romania 8Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221008, China


Introduction
Poisson and Laplace equations had successfully played an important role in electrodynamics [1][2][3].Mathematically, they are two-order partial differential equations and exist in the spaces of different kinds [4,5].Their solutions were studied by different.There are approximate and numerical methods for them, such as the finite difference method [6], the finite element method [7], the random walk method [8], the quadrilateral quadrature element [9], and the complex polynomial method [10].
Since Mandelbrot [10] described the fractals, the fractional calculus [11][12][13] and local fractional calculus [14][15][16] were applied to the real world problem based on them.For example, Engheta discussed the fractional-order electromagnetic theory [17].Tarasov studied the fractal distribution of charges [18].Calcagni et al. suggested the electric charge in multiscale space and times [19].In [20], the local fractional approach for Maxwell's equations was considered.Local fractional calculus [20][21][22][23][24][25] has been successfully applied to describe dynamical systems with the nondifferentiable functions.For example, the Maxwell theory on Cantor sets was studied in [20].The Heisenberg uncertainty relation was discussed by using the local fractional Fourier analysis [21].The system of Navier-Stokes equations arising in fractal flows was reported in [22].The local fractional nonhomogeneous heat equations arising in fractal heat flow were presented in [23].The fractal forest gap within the local fractional derivative was investigated in [24].
In the present paper, the local fractional Poisson and Laplace equations within the nondifferentiable functions arising in electrostatics in fractal domain and in the Cantortype cylindrical coordinates [25] based upon the local fractional Maxwell equations [20] will be derived from the fractional vector calculus.
The outline of the paper is depicted below.

Local Fractional Maxwell's Equations
In this section, the local fractional Maxwell's equations are introduced and the concepts of the local fractional vector calculus are reviewed.We first introduce the local fractional vector calculus and its theorems [14,[20][21][22][23].
The local fractional Stokes' theorem of the fractal field states that [13,20] ∮ The electric Gauss law for the fractal electric field was suggested as [20] ∯ which leads to where the quantity  denotes the free charges density and the quantity  is the fractal electric displacement.The Ampere law in the fractal magnetic field was presented as [20] ∮ which leads to where the quantity  is the fractal magnetic field strength and the quantity   denotes the fractal conductive current.The Faraday law in the fractal electric field reads as [20] ∮ which leads to where the constitutive relationships in fractal electric field are with the fractal dielectric permittivity   and the fractal dielectric field .
The magnetic Gauss law for the fractal magnetic field was written as [20] ∯ which leads to where the constitutive relationships in fractal magnetic field are with the fractal magnetic permeability   and the fractal magnetic field .

Local Fractional Poisson and Laplace Equations in Fractal Media
In this section, we derive the local fractional Poisson and Laplace equations arising in electrostatics in fractal media.
In view of (11), from (6) we have so that where  denotes the free charges density in fractal homogeneous medium,   denotes the fractal dielectric permittivity, and  denotes the fractal dielectric field.Hence, the local fractional differential form of Gauss's law in local fractional divergence operator reads as If the electrostatics in fractal domain is described by the expression then the fractal electric field within the local fractional gradient is where the quantity  is a nondifferentiable term and  is the fractal dielectric field.
In view of ( 16) and ( 19), we obtain which leads to where the quantity  is a nondifferentiable term and   denotes the fractal dielectric permittivity.From ( 21) we arrive at Let us define the local fractional operator Making use of ( 22) and ( 23), we have In the Cantorian coordinates, from (24), the local fractional Poisson equation arising in electrostatics in fractal domain can be written as where both (, , ) and (, , ) are nondifferentiable functions; the local fractional operator ∇ 2 in the Cantorian coordinates was written as [14] In the Cantorian coordinates, from (25), the local fractional Laplace equation arising in electrostatics in fractal domain is where the quantity (, , ) is a nondifferentiable function.From ( 25) the local fractional Laplace equation arising in electrostatics in fractal domain with two variables can be written as where both (, ) and (, ) are nondifferentiable functions.From ( 27) the local fractional Laplace equation arising in electrostatics in fractal domain with two variables can be written as where the quantity (, ) is a nondifferentiable function.
For the boundary conditions on the fractal potential we have the local fractional Laplace's equation which leads to the nondifferentiable solution given and its graph is shown in Figure 1.
We notice that the local fractional Poisson's equation shows the potential behavior in the fractal regions with nondifferentiable functions where there is the free charge, while local fractional Laplace's equation governs the nondifferentiable potential behavior in fractal regions where there is no free charge.

Conclusions
In this work we derived the local fractional Poisson and Laplace equations arising in electrostatics in fractal domain from local fractional vector calculus.The local fractional Poisson and Laplace equations in the Cantor-type cylindrical coordinates were also discussed.The nondifferentiable solution for local fractional Laplace equation was also given.