Electro-mechanical analogy for Prabhakar-like fractional viscoelasticity

Abstract

Abstract The aim of this paper is to set up a formal equivalence between a mechanical system and an electrical one. Specifically, we consider the Maxwell-Prabhakar linear viscoelastic model, based on Prabhakar fractional operators. Therefore, we find the analogous expression for the electric current due to a step potential. The expression for the resulting electric current depends on the variable characterizing the viscoelastic model and its behaviour is then discussed with the support of some interesting plots.