Reliable numerical modelling of malaria propagation

István Faragó; Miklós Emil Mincsovics; Rahele Mosleh

Applications of Mathematics (2018)

  • Volume: 63, Issue: 3, page 259-271
  • ISSN: 0862-7940

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We investigate biological processes, particularly the propagation of malaria. Both the continuous and the numerical models on some fixed mesh should preserve the basic qualitative properties of the original phenomenon. Our main goal is to give the conditions for the discrete (numerical) models of the malaria phenomena under which they possess some given qualitative property, namely, to be between zero and one. The conditions which guarantee this requirement are related to the time-discretization step-size. We give a sufficient condition for some explicit methods. For implicit methods we prove that the above property holds unconditionally.

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Faragó, István, Mincsovics, Miklós Emil, and Mosleh, Rahele. "Reliable numerical modelling of malaria propagation." Applications of Mathematics 63.3 (2018): 259-271. <http://eudml.org/doc/294369>.

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author = {Faragó, István, Mincsovics, Miklós Emil, Mosleh, Rahele},
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