The study of biofilm formation is becoming increasingly important. Microbes that produce biofilms have complicated impact on medical implants. In this paper, we construct an unconditionally positive non-standard finite difference scheme for a mathematical model of biofilm formation on a medical implant. The unknowns in many applications reflect values that cannot be negative, such as chemical component concentrations or population numbers. The model employed here uses the bistable Allen-Cahn partial differential equation, which is a generalization of Fisher’s equation. We study consistency and convergence of the scheme constructed. We compare the performance of our scheme with a classical finite difference scheme using four numerical experiments. The technique used in the construction of unconditionally positive method in this study can be applied to other areas of mathematical biology and sciences. The results here elaborate the benefits of the non-standard approximations over the classical approximations in practical applications.
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Keller-Segel chemotaxis model is described by a system of nonlinear partial differential equations: a convection diffusion equation for the cell density coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation for chemoattractant concentration. In this work, we study the phenomenon of Keller-Segel model coupled with Boussinesq equations. The main objective of this work is to study the global existence and uniqueness and boundedness of the weak solution for the problem, which is carried out by the Galerkin method.
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We establish the boundedness character of solutions of the rational system in the title, with the parameters α1, β1 positive and the remaining eight parameters nonnegative and with arbitrary nonnegative initial conditions such that the denominators are always positive. We present easily verifiable necessary and sufficient conditions, explicitly stated in terms of the parameters, which determine the boundedness character of the system.
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In this paper we deal with the solutions of the system of the difference equations xn+1 = ...[wzór], yn+1 = ...[wzór], with a nonzero real numbers initial conditions.
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In this paper, we investigate the global behavior of the difference equation of order three xn+1 = α + ...[wzór], n = 0, 1,… where the parameters α, k ∈ (0, ∞) and the initial values x-2, x-1 and x0 are arbitrary positive real numbers.
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In this note we discuss the boundedness and convergence of a sequence which satisfies the following logarithmic linear inequality where k(1) + k(2) +... + km = 1. We focus our attention especially to the case n = 2. Also we describe a situation where this inequality occurs naturally.
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