The two-regime method for optimizing stochastic reaction-diffusion simulations

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 70, 2012, Pages 859-868

  Flegg, Mark B ^a   Chapman, S Jonathan ^a   Erban, Radek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hybrid algorithm; Multi scale simulation; Reaction diffusion processes; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL MODELS; COUPLING CONDITION; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; LEVEL OF DETAIL; MATHEMATICAL JUSTIFICATION; MESOSCOPICS; MOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION; REACTION DIFFUSION; REACTION-DIFFUSION PROCESS; REACTION-DIFFUSION SIMULATION; SIMULATION DOMAIN; SMALL REGION; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODELLING; TWO-REGIME;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARTMENT MODEL; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION;

EID: 84860779000     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0574     Document Type: Article

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