Reliable numerical modelling of malaria propagation

[摘要] 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.

[学科分类] 应用数学

[关键词] epidemic model;qualitative propertie;non-negativity;finite difference method