From enzyme kinetics to epidemiological models with Michaelis-Menten contact rate: design of nonstandard finite difference schemes

DOI10.1016/j.camwa.2011.12.058zbMath1252.65131MaRDI QIDQ692237

Ronald E. Mickens, Jean M.-S. Lubuma, Michael Chapwanya

Publication date: 4 December 2012

Published in: Computers \& Mathematics with Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2011.12.058

zbMATH Keywords

SIR model; exact scheme; nonstandard finite difference method; Michaelis-Menten equation; Lambert W function; advection-reaction equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92D30: Epidemiology

65L12: Finite difference and finite volume methods for ordinary differential equations

92-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology