Dynamical and numerical analyses of a generalized food-chain model

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-49

  Moghadas, S M ^a   Gumel, A B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equilibria; Finite difference scheme; Food chain model; Hopf bifurcation; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD PRODUCTS;

FOOD-CHAIN MODEL;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038556985     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00282-5     Document Type: Article

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