A fractional approach to thermal damage modeling in biological tissues under Atangana–Baleanu derivative
摘要
This work advances the modeling of bioheat transfer in biological tissue by integrating the Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivatives into the bioheat equation, offering a more realistic representation of thermal damage by incorporating memory effects and non-local heat conduction. The fractional derivative (FD) is an effective approach for modeling transient thermal responses in biological tissues. This study introduces FD into the classical Pennes bioheat conduction formulation with one thermal relaxation time, formulating a corresponding bioheat transfer model based on the thermal energy conservation law. The fractional-order formulation employs non-singular and local kernels to account for the Atangana–Baleanu (AB) derivative. The Laplace transforms and numerical inverse transforms approach are employed to analyze thermal responses under pulsed heat flux conditions. The derived models are reduced to the classical Pennes and non-Fourier models, allowing for a comparative analysis of FD in transient bioheat transfer. A numerical investigation explores the impacts of the fractional derivatives, thermal relaxation and heat flux pulse times on temperature variation and distributions.