Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-23-2008

Abstract

We study numerical solution of systems of delay-differential equations in which the delay function, which depends on the unknown solution, is defined implicitly by the threshold condition. We study discrete variable numerical methods for these problems and present error analysis. The global error is composed of the error of solving the differential systems, the error from the threshold conditions and the errors in delay arguments. Our theoretical analysis is confirmed by numerical experiments on threshold problems from the theory of epidemics and from population dynamics.

Comments

This document was originally published by Elsevier in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. Copyright restrictions may apply. DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2008.03.022