An unconditionally convergent finite-difference scheme for the SIR model

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 146, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 611-625

  Piyawong, W ^a,b   Twizell, E H ^b   Gumel, A B ^c  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite differences; SIR model; Unconditional convergence

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CONTINUOUS-TIME SYSTEMS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 0041736718     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00607-0     Document Type: Article

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