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Section B

A new numerical algorithm based on the first kind of modified Bessel function to solve population growth in a closed system

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Pages 1239-1254 | Received 15 Sep 2012, Accepted 19 Jun 2013, Published online: 16 Jan 2014
 

Abstract

Volterra's model for population growth in a closed system includes an integral term to indicate accumulated toxicity in addition to the usual terms of the logistic equation. In this research, a new numerical algorithm is introduced for solving this model. The proposed numerical approach is based on the modified Bessel function of the first kind and the collocation method. In this method, we aim to solve the problems on the semi-infinite domain without any domain truncation, variable transformation in basis functions and shifting the problem to a finite domain. Accordingly, we employ two different collocation approaches, one by computing through Volterra's population model in the integro-differential form and the other by computing by converting this model to an ordinary differential form. These methods reduce the solution of a problem to the solution of a nonlinear system of algebraic equations. To illustrate the reliability of these methods, we compare the numerical results of the present methods with some well-known results in other to show that the new methods are efficient and applicable.

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