Abstract
A competitive finite-difference method will be constructed and used to solve a modified deterministic model for the spread of herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) within a given population. The model monitors the transmission dynamics and control of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant HSV-2. Unlike the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method (RK4), which fails when the discretization parameters exceed certain values, the novel numerical method to be developed in this paper gives convergent results for all parameter values.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 23-27 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Finite-difference
- HSV-2
- Initial-value problem
- Numerical instabilities
- Positivity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Numerical Analysis
- Modeling and Simulation
- Applied Mathematics