A Non-Standard Finite-Difference Scheme for a Model of HIV Transmission and Control

Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-98

  Gumel, A B ^a   Mickens, R E ^b   Corbett, B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV mathematical models; Nonstandard finite difference schemes; numerical integration

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS;

FOURTH-ORDER RUNGE-KUTTA METHODS (RK4); HIV TRANSMISSION; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NON-STANDARD FINITE-DIFFERENCES; NONSTANDARD FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 22344440721     PISSN: 14727978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2003-3107     Document Type: Article

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