Numerical Modeling of Fractional-Order Biological Systems

Fathalla A. Rihan

Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-11

Abstract:

We provide a class of fractional-order differential models of biological systems with memory, such as dynamics of tumor-immune system and dynamics of HIV infection of CD4 + T cells. Stability and nonstability conditions for disease-free equilibrium and positive equilibria are obtained in terms of a threshold parameter (minimum infection parameter) for each model. We provide unconditionally stable method, using the Caputo fractional derivative of order and implicit Euler’s approximation, to find a numerical solution of the resulting systems. The numerical simulations confirm the advantages of the numerical technique and using fractional-order differential models in biological systems over the differential equations with integer order. The results may give insight to infectious disease specialists.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/816803

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