Ecology models and Newton vector fields
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Ecology models and Newton vector fields
zbMATH Open document ID: 0654.92010
DOI: 10.1016/0025-5564(88)90067-3
author: Julian I. Palmore
author: Scott A. Burns
author: Harold E. Benzinger
published in: Mathematical Biosciences
publication date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper deals with the visual examination of the global behaviour of solutions to autonomous systems of differential equations. A simple method to do this is to integrate numerically in forward time and then to draw the phase portraits and the Poincaré sections of the corresponding flows by computer. Indeed, the error inherent numerical integration may be propagated which leads to a deviation from the true orbit long before the vicinity of an attractor is reached. The authors propose a new method which has no propagated error. In a second part they draw high resolution computer graphical color phase plane portraits for some differential equations used in mathematical ecology: the logistic equation in the complex domain, the predator-prey and the competing species equation in the real domain. (Unfortunately, the reviewer has not seen these pictures.) The algorithm for constructing integral curves developed by the author is explained in detail for an example in the complex domain.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37-XX
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65S05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 34C05
zbMATH DE Number: 4068674
zbMATH Keywords: autonomous systems
zbMATH Keywords: phase portraits
zbMATH Keywords: Poincaré sections
zbMATH Keywords: flows
zbMATH Keywords: logistic equation
zbMATH Keywords: complex domain
zbMATH Keywords: predator-prey
zbMATH Keywords: competing species
zbMATH Keywords: algorithm for constructing integral curves
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: 0025-5564(88)90067-3
OpenAlex ID: W1997834497
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